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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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ICTforAg 2023: Cultivating Inclusion

Co-organized by CGIAR, USAID Feed the Future, DAI and DevGlobal

November 7 to 9, 2023

  • 6:30 – 5:00 pm (America/New_York)
  • 12:30 – 11:00 pm (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 5:00 – 3:30 am (Asia/Kolkata)
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IFPRI is participating in ICTforAg 2023. During this 3-day virtual event, agricultural stakeholders and technology experts will come together to share knowledge, find solutions, and form partnerships to address challenges in agri-food systems across low- and middle-income countries.

The main goal of ICTforAg is to grow communities and catalyze meaningful conversations, insights, and collaborations, increase participation of participants from the developing world, promote knowledge sharing and learning, and inspire practitioners to develop inclusive and sustainable ICT solutions.

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Breakout session: Digital transformation – Catalyzing a more nutritious food system | Tuesday, November 7 | 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM (EST)

  • Jenny Walton, Head of Commercialization and Scaling, IFPRI HarvestPlus CGIAR

Lightning Talks: Gender digital divide in rural Kenya | Thursday, Nov 9 | 12:30 – 01:00 PM (EST)

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