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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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Man vs Food: EAT-Lancet’s diet great for tackling climate change, but 1.58 billion people can’t afford it (The Financial Express)

November 19, 2019

The Financial Express (India) published an article on the IFPRI and Friedman School (Tufts) report on the Affordability of the EAT-Lancet reference diet: a global analysis. The report notes that at $2.84 per day with the minimum costs globally for the recommended healthy diet, around 1.58 billion people worldwide will not be able to afford it.

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