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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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Trade restrictions are the wrong way to address food supply issues in the COVID-19 crisis (The Hill) 

May 12, 2020


The Hill (USA) published an opinion piece by Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber on how the COVID-19 pandemic has caused many disruptions in the food distribution systems, ranging from health issues in meat and other food processing plants to impacts of lockdown procedures that have disrupted food chain flows. He writes, “While the impacts of trade restrictions may bring short-term benefits to some groups, they are far outweighed by the long-term costs and even by adverse short-run impacts.” 

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