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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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Concerns intensify over food producers’ impact on environment (Financial Times)

January 03, 2019


Financial Times wrote an article about the growing concerns of food producers’ impact on the global environment and more specifically greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and food production. IFPRI Director of Environment Channing Arndt was quoted in the article discussing some of the causes of large agriculture emissions and how food production companies can adapt their practices.

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