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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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Committee on World Food Security (CFS 45)

Our Actions Are our Future:  A #ZeroHunger World by 2030 Is Possible

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Viale delle Terme di Caracalla

Rome, Italy

October 15 to 19, 2018

  • 8:00 – 5:00 pm (Europe/Rome)
  • 2:00 – 11:00 am (US/Eastern)
  • 11:30 – 8:30 pm (Asia/Kolkata)
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IFPRI will participate in CFS’s annual Plenary (CFS45) in FAO, Rome.

The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) is the foremost inclusive international and intergovernmental platform for all stakeholders to work together to ensure food security and nutrition for all. The Committee reports to the UN General Assembly through the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and to FAO Conference.  Using a multi-stakeholder, inclusive approach, CFS develops and endorses policy recommendations and guidance on a wide range of food security and nutrition topics.

IFPRI Participants:

Enriching a Sustainable Food Future (October 15, 2018 — 06:00pm-07:30pm)

  • Jenny Walton, Senior Advisor, Public Private Partnerships, HarvestPlus/IFPRI

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