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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.

IFPRI researcher recognized for Outstanding Scientific Article

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IFPRI researcher recognized for Outstanding Scientific Article

The article “Effect of a Nutrition Intervention during Early Childhood on Economic Productivity in Guatemalan Adults” by senior research fellow John Hoddinott and his co-authors, received the 2009 CGIAR Science Award in the Outstanding Scientific Article category. The article, published in the Lancet journal, shows that feeding young children a caloric, micronutrient-enriched nutritional supplement leads to significant increases in wage rates for men as adults.

He accepted the award at the Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development.

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