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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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‘The perfect storm of vulnerability’: Protection in the fields doesn’t follow farm workers home (News Center Maine) 

April 11, 2020

News Center Maine wrote an article about farmworkers who are essential employees during the coronavirus pandemic. But crowded living conditions could trigger an outbreak that would devastate the food supply.  Former IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan said, “COVID-19 is a health crisis. But it could also lead to a food security crisis if proper measures are not taken.”  Republished in CalMatters, Black Voice News, ABC10.

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