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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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IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

Experts say Africa needs off-grid energy to power food security dream (Business Daily Africa)

December 18, 2019


Business Daily Africa published an article on the Malabo Montpellier Panel report. The Report states that African governments should step up investments in energy innovations. Director of IFPRI’s Africa Region Ousmane Badiane said, “As demand for food continues to grow globally, universal access to energy will become an urgent necessity, both for the production, processing, and consumption of more nutritious food.”

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