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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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Food supply chains do not care if people go hungry (Al Jazeera) 

May 22, 2020


Al Jazeera (Qatar) published a news report on impact of COVID-19 on global food chains. The report quoted Director General Johan Swinnen who said due to the pandemic, people will have less real income to pay for their food either due to income loss or rising food prices. 

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