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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

Ahmed Akhter

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Akhter Ahmed

Akhter Ahmed is a Senior Research Fellow in the IFPRI’s Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit and Country Representative for IFPRI Bangladesh. He has worked on strategies for agricultural and rural development, social protection, and women’s empowerment to reduce poverty, food insecurity, and undernutrition in developing countries including Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Malawi, the Philippines, and Turkey.

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High-level Dialogue on Feeding Africa 2021: Leadership to Scale up Successful Innovations

African Development Bank, IFAD, FARA and CGIAR

April 29 to 30, 2021

  • 6:00 – 11:00 am (America/New_York)
  • 12:00 – 5:00 pm (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 3:30 – 8:30 pm (Asia/Kolkata)
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IFPRI’s Director General Johan Swinnen is participating in the High-level dialogue on feeding Africa 2021 leadership to scale up successful innovations. This online forum will bring together African heads of state, senior government officials, heads of multilateral development banks, research institutions and more from across Africa and beyond. 

The goal of this event is to secure political commitments at the highest level of leadership to replicate success across the continent. As well as demonstrate what is working in regional agricultural research for development, and what needs to be done to sustain investments.

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