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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

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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IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

Why disaster relief is important (International Relief Teams)

July 26, 2021


International Relief Teams published an article on how natural disasters are becoming more and more commonplace. Even if we exclude the most recent disasters, the United States averaged 127 disasters annually from 2006-2015. That is more than double the average over the previous 63 years! Senior research fellow Katrina Kosec said, “Disasters can change victim’s attitudes in ways that will potentially haunt individuals, communities, and local economies for decades to come,” told the Washington Post. “When people endure natural disasters without aid, they may face a lifetime of diminished hope for prosperity. Delivering disaster aid to victims quickly not only restores lost assets but also maintains their aspirations – and invests in communities’ longer-term economic and democratic health.” Read more about Kosec’s fascinating research on the value of disaster relief here

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