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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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Finns may soon have to change their eating habits – the reason is war and Finland’s dependence on Russian fertilizers (YLE)

March 11, 2022


YLE (Finland) published an article on how Russia and Belarus are the world’s leading producers of fertilizers and their raw materials. Access to those products has and will continue to be more difficult to obtain. Attempts are now being made to reduce dependence on Russia. According to data collected by the IFPRI (see maps in the article), about a third of the nitrogen fertilizer and up to 60 percent of the potassium fertilizer imported to Finland comes from Russia and Belarus.  

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