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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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Does growth in pulses output mean India has reached self-sufficiency? (The Indian Express)

May 31, 2018


The Indian Express reported on IFPRI’s research on pulses in India assessing if India has reached self-sufficiency in pulses. The article, based on PK Joshi’s co-authored chapter in the Pulses book, argues that the country may transition from a pulses importing nation to an exporting one, if the current growth trends in pulses production continue.

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