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Ahmed Akhter

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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Oil, casinos in New York and pumps (Forbes)

March 10, 2022


Forbes (Spain) published an article on how the scarcity of vegetable oil has reopened the debate on food versus biofuels in countries like the United States, which for oil producers means only one thing: long live the economy based on fossil fuels. Senior research fellow Joseph Glauber said, “People are going to find supply; the question is only at what price.”  

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