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

Why FG’s policy on mechanisation is not working (Daily Trust)

January 16, 2020


Daily Trust (Nigeria) reported that for more than 60 years, Nigeria has been importing tractors yet less than 30 percent of farmers in the country have access to mechanization. The story cites an IFPRI study in which Senior Research Fellow, Hiroyuki Takeshima finds government programs designed to bring in more tractors “are rarely effective, and government agencies have shifted into distributing tractors at subsidized prices to certain recipients who they hope will provide hiring services to other farmers.”

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