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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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Rural Bangladesh saw 22% increase in food insecurity during pandemic: IFPRI (The Daily Star)

December 27, 2021


The Daily Star (Bangladesh) reported on a study by IFPRI that found around 22.3 percent more rural Bangladeshi households reported food insecurity — 18 months after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic than pre-pandemic times. In the pre-pandemic period, 54.3 percent of rural households — surveyed in the study sample — were fully food-secure, whereas, during September-October of 2021, that percentage stood at 32. 

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