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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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Shipping industry and supply chain challenges  (Aly Aum)

January 17, 2023


The International Food Policy Research Institute has shown that 29 countries tend to impose food export bans during a [food and prices] crisis, writes Aly Aum (Egypt) in an article discussing shipping industry and supply chain challenges it currently faces. Protectionism may have a significant impact on the Egyptian shipping industry, dramatically changing the way it operates.

  

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