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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 Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF)

Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality

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United Nations Plaza Conference Room F in the UN Conference Building

405 East 42nd Street

New York, United States

July 9 to 18, 2019

  • 9:00 – 6:00 pm (America/New_York)
  • 3:00 – 12:00 am (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 6:30 – 3:30 am (Asia/Kolkata)
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IFPRI is participating in the 2019 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF), which is the main United Nations platform on sustainable development and it has a central role in the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the global level. It is being convened under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council.

CropLife International, International Fertilizer Association, International Seed Federation, and One Acre Fund are co-organizing the session:

Agricultural Inputs Towards Goal 13 (July 11, 2019 — 1:15pm – 2:45pm EDT, Delegates Dining Room)

  • Channing Arndt, Director of Environment and Production Technology Division, IFPRI

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