Farida Akhter
Founding executive director of UBINIG, Dhaka, a policy and research organization in Bangladesh.
About Farida Akhter
Farida Akhter has carried out extensive research in agirculture, marine fisheries, population, and development issues. UBINIG, the organization she founded, runs a biodiversity-based farming system involving over 300,000 farming families. She is the author of several books and is a regular columnist in national dailies, writing on biodiversity, environment, women, and other issues.