IFPRI Senior Research Fellow Akhter Ahmed was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article about how Bangladesh—once associated with hunger and malnutrition—has become a food basket and a model for hunger reduction. Ahmed added that although “Bangladesh can serve as a model, particularly to other countries in South Asia that haven’t done so well,” it’s critical to remember that the country’s great strides don’t mean the hunger problem is completely solved.
From famine to food basket: how Bangladesh became a model for reducing hunger
June 17, 2015