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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.

Expert urges Africa to learn from China’s agriculture revolution (Xinhuanet.com)

September 07, 2019


China’s Xinhua reported on the remarks of China Program Leader and Senior Research Fellow Kevin Chen at the recent Africa Green Revolution Forum (AGRF). In the article, Chen noted that Africa could learn from China’s use of information and communication technology for agriculture. Chen added that political instability Africa’s biggest challenge to implementing policy reforms along these lines. The article was republished by South Africa’s IOL and China.org.cn.