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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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Corona also requires support to vulnerable foreign suppliers (Solidaridad)

April 17, 2020


Solidaridad (the Netherlands) published an article on the global food supply and dangers ahead due to the coronavirus. The local and international chains are under pressure. Small cocoa, fruit and coffee farmers cannot get rid of their products. These groups are extremely vulnerable due to extreme poverty and a lack of proper health care and nutrition. According to the IFPRI blog post, How much will global poverty increase because of COVID-19, an additional 20-25 million people will end up in poverty through Corona. Vice Versa.

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