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Ahmed Akhter

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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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2018 Global Food Policy Report – Beirut, Lebanon

Co-Organized by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences (FAFS) and the Food Security Program at the American University of Beirut (AUB)

American University of Beirut

FAFS, Wing A, Michel and Sherine Bayoud Lecture Hall

Beirut, Lebanon

July 3, 2018

  • 9:00 – 11:15 am (Asia/Beirut)
  • 2:00 – 4:15 am (US/Eastern)
  • 11:30 – 1:45 pm (Asia/Kolkata)
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Antiglobalism was on the rise in 2017. What will that mean for food security and nutrition? IFPRI’s 2018 Global Food Policy Report examines the impacts of global integration-including the movement of goods, investment, people, and knowledge–and the threat of current antiglobalization pressures.

Welcome Note

Introduction of Speakers and Panelists

  • Rachel Bahn, Coordinator of Food Security Program, FAFS (moderator)

Global Food Policy Perspective: Key Findings of the GFPR

Regional Perspective: A Tale of Two MENAs

Moderated Panel Discussion

Question and Answer Session with Audience

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