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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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The science behind the purple ube jam turning white (Rappler)

September 27, 2019


The Rappler (Philippines) wrote an article on yam jam and climate change. Data linking climate change specifically to ube (yam) production are scarce. But the indicators of the impact can be seen in some reports pertaining  to the change in rainfall pattern & mean temperature of the area. Agriculture, in general, is severely impacted by climate change. IFPRI has estimated that climate change will put “an additional 2 million people in the Philippines at risk of hunger by 2050 and cost about Php 145 billion annually over that time span” as it will affect food production in the country. Reaches 3M
 

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