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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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A sustainable way of generating fuel from farm waste (Energy World) 

August 12, 2020


Energy World published an article on n India, with every harvest, around 80 crore tonnes of waste is produced. This waste, in the form of twigs, husk and chips, has had no value to this day. 

In states like Punjab and Haryana, farmers burn this waste, causing severe air pollution that extends to neighboring states. According to an IFPRI report, Risk of acute respiratory infection from crop burning in India: Estimating disease burden and economic welfare from satellite and national health survey data for 250 000 persons published in ‘The International Journal of Epidemiology,’ this air pollution causes respiratory diseases like asthma, resulting in a medical expenditure of about Rs. 2 lakh crore every year.

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