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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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Russia’s war is causing hunger in Asia (The Economist) 

May 05, 2022


The Economist writes in an article that unhelpful short-term fixes are not the answer to spiking food prices. The war is pushing up the prices of all kinds of foodstuffs, not just grain. In Bangladesh, with a population of 164 million, its food-security predicament is among the most severe, paying more for food and fertilizer imports will deplete foreign-currency reserves, while leaving less room for social safety-net support, according to IFPRI.  

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