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Ahmed Akhter

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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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Kenyans love maize. But aflatoxins are making it dangerous (BMJ Journals)

January 14, 2020

BMJ Journals reported on the dangers and ways to prevent aflatoxin poisoning. The findings from two IFPRI studies were referenced in the article, the first by Research Fellows Vivian Hoffmann and Jef Leroy and Kelly Jones, The impact of reducing dietary aflatoxin exposure on child linear growth: a cluster randomised controlled trial in Kenya, and the second from Jef Leroy’s and Edward Frongillo titled Perspective: What does stunting really mean? A Critical review of the evidence. Republished in SciDev.net

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