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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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Fish farming pulls 20 lakh out of poverty: Study (The Daily Star)

October 28, 2019


Daily Star (Bangladesh) reported on an IFPRI study and book, “The Making of the ‘Blue Revolution’ in Bangladesh” that more than 20 lakh of the 1.80 crore Bangladeshis who escaped poverty between 2000 and 2010 managed to do so because of aquaculture, raising the need for the government to give this area of agriculture special focus.

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