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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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Since 1975, IFPRI’s research has been informing policies and development programs to improve food security, nutrition, and livelihoods around the world.

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Mexico is where more ultra-processed foods are eaten from Latin America and the Caribbean (Cenadin, AC)

January 22, 2020


Cenadin, AC reported on current food systems are failing consumers and the necessity to convert our healthy food system, which allows the environmental sustainability of the planet and contributes to social equity. IFPRI’s Director of Latin America & the Caribbean Eugenio Díaz Bonilla highlighted the joint work with FAO. “Food systems are related to a huge number of issues, it is related to employment, health and the environment. In terms of health, there is talk of a triple burden of malnutrition: hunger, hidden hunger and overweight and obesity.”

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