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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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National Nutrition Conference in Ethiopia: Diets, Affordability and Policy in Ethiopia: From Evidence to Action

Co-Organized by IFPRI, Policy Studies Institute (PSI), Ethiopia Public Health Institute (EPHI), and the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)

Hilton Addis Ababa

Menelik II Ave

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

December 12, 2019

  • 9:00 – 4:30 pm (Africa/Addis_Ababa)
  • 1:00 – 8:30 am (US/Eastern)
  • 11:30 – 7:00 pm (Asia/Kolkata)
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Despite progress, many children in Ethiopia remain stunted, diet diversity continues to pose a challenge, and food systems are changing rapidly.

To support the implementation of Ethiopia’s National Food and Nutrition Policy (NFNP), IFPRI, Policy Studies Institute (PSI), Ethiopia Public Health Institute (EPHI), and the Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) program will present new research results on diets, affordability, and policy at the National Nutrition Conference taking place in the Hilton Hotel in Addis Ababa on December 12, 2019.

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