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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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2019 Global Food Policy Report – Thimphu, Bhutan

Co-Organized by IFPRI and Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Bhutan

Hotel Migmar

Olakha Lam

Bhutan

April 29, 2019

  • 9:30 – 11:10 am (Asia/Thimphu)
  • 11:30 – 1:10 am (US/Eastern)
  • 9:00 – 10:40 am (Asia/Kolkata)
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Marchang Ceremony

  • Director-DS, Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Royal Government of Bhutan (RGoB)

Welcome Speech

  • Dasho Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Forests (MoAF), Royal Government of Bhutan (RGoB)

Keynote Address

Launch of the Global Food Policy Report 

Inaugural Remarks

  • H.E. Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Royal Government of Bhutan (RGoB)

Signing of MOAF-IFPRI MoU 

  • Dasho Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Forests (MoAF), Royal Government of Bhutan (RGoB)
  • Shenggen Fan, Director General, IFPRI

Review of the Global Food Policy Report 

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