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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

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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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American Society for Nutrition Live Online 2020

June 1 to 4, 2020

  • 9:00 – 5:00 pm (America/New_York)
  • 3:00 – 11:00 pm (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 6:30 – 2:30 am (Asia/Kolkata)
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IFPRI is participating in the American Society for Nutrition Live Online 2020 event on June 01-04, 2020. The event will include lectures, scientific sessions, satellite programs, virtual abstract presentations, virtual exhibits, and more.

Nutrition in a Pandemic Environment 

COVID-19’s Pathways of Impact on Nutrition (June 02, 2020 — 10:30am – 10:45am)

  • Marie Ruel, Director, Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division, IFPRI

Panel Discussion (June 02, 2020 — 11:50am – 12:00pm)

  • Marie Ruel, Director, Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division, IFPRI

Implementation Science Workshop 

Implementation Science – Presenter 2 (June 03, 2020 — 10:45am – 10:55am)

Household Water Insecurity and its Importance for Ensuring Food, Nutrition and Well-being 

Harmonizing Actions on Water and Nutrition within the United Nations (June 04, 2020 — 11:30am – 11:50am)

  • Claudia Ringler, Deputy Division Director, Environment Production and Technology Division, IFPRI

 

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