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Ahmed Akhter

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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Since 1975, IFPRI’s research has been informing policies and development programs to improve food security, nutrition, and livelihoods around the world.

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African unity could help free continent from hunger (Sowetan Live) 

July 17, 2020


Sowetan Live published an article about how the continent has flocked together to manage the health crisis, but it remains to be seen if this will translate to preventing a food crisis. Over the past 15 years, several African countries have reduced malnutrition significantly. Some by as much as 50%, according to IFPRI. However, Covid-19 threatens to reverse some of this.

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