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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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Tropentag 2021

Towards shifting paradigms in agriculture for a healthy and sustainable future

September 14, 2021

  • 8:00 – 11:00 am (America/New_York)
  • 2:00 – 5:00 pm (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 5:30 – 8:30 pm (Asia/Kolkata)
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IFPRI is participating in the annual interdisciplinary conference on research in tropical and subtropical agriculture, natural resource management and rural development (TROPENTAG).

Workshop 3: How to Reach Women Farmers with Innovative Extension Approaches: Insights from the Field (September 14, 2021 — 8:00am – 11:00am EDT)

  • Organizer: Claudia Ringler, Deputy Director of Environment and Production Technology Division, CGIAR-IFPRI

This workshop combines a series of short presentations on the topic of innovative extension approaches and their gendered impacts with a panel discussion including policymakers and practitioners from India, Kenya and Uganda. Proposed short presentations include:

Organizational innovation in times of crises: The case of extension and advisory services during Covid-19

Gendered access to extension services during Covid-19: Insights from Nepal and India

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