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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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Doubts raised over US claim of $40bn China farm purchases (Financial Times)

December 14, 2019


Financial Times (London) reported on the U.S.-China trade negotiations. United States claims that China will purchase US$40 billion in U.S. agricultural goods were greeted with skepticism. Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber said silence on China’s commitments by individual commodity could prove confusing to farmers deciding what to plant. “The details still remain very obscure.”

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