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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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Nigeria and UNFAO’s report on looming hunger (Nigerian Pilot News)

August 04, 2021


Nigerian Pilot News published an article on the recent report by Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC 2021) concerning Nigeria is quite predictable and alarming. In its 2021 Report, the GRFC stated that 13 million Nigerians risk acute hunger. Nigeria is grouped with six other countries in the negative hunger index. Other countries include Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, Zimbabwe, and the Republic of the Congo. The GRFC is made up of 16 global leading regional organizations belonging to Global Network Against Food Crises, which is led by the FAO, WFP, and IFPRI. According to the report, 55 countries and 155 million people face this threat. 

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