Farida Akhter

Farida Akhter is a Bangladeshi researcher, writer and women's rights advocate. She is the founding executive director of UBINIG (Policy Research for Development Alternative), a Bangladesh-based policy and action research organisation established in 1984. She previously served as adviser to the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock in Bangladesh's interim government. Her work spans biodiversity conservation, ecological agriculture, food sovereignty, public health and rural livelihoods, with particular attention to women's contributions to farming and the protection of local seeds and traditional knowledge.