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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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[OPINION] Global food security crisis not merely a ‘logistics’ issue  (Rappler)

May 02, 2020


Rappler (Philippines) in an opinion piece stated that the right to food and a nation’s capacity to produce domestic food should not be decided by market forces. IFPRI’s research was quoted in the article (see the blog post, Poverty and food insecurity could grow dramatically as COVID-19 spreads by Senior Fellows David Laborde and Will Martin, and Division Director [MTID] Rob Vos), poor communities will be the most affected by the crisis and its subsequent economic impacts. Agriculture employs up to 75% of the labor force in Africa and up to 45% in Asia. Republished in Head Topics

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