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Creating jobs in the face of COVID-19

World Food Programme Logistics

How the World Food Programme is creating opportunities for youth in South Sudan through agriculture Story by Musa Mahadi Filemina Simon being assisted to weigh maize grain she brought for sell at Masia Rural Aggregation Centres(RACs) points in Yambio. New beginnings 21-year-old Filemina Simon is not your average young woman.

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Looking Back at the Thanksgiving Supply Chain: How Turkeys Were Delivered to Millions of Americans

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What would Thanksgiving be without any fresh food and turkeys? If there is a special acknowledgement, it should definitely go to the field agents who delivered turkeys and fresh food before that special day. US Department of Agriculture, Aug 31, 2021. – US Department of Agriculture Turkey market news report, Nov 26, 2021.

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How herders are turning to farming and fishing to earn a living in Kenya

World Food Programme Logistics

Forced to the farmland Katilu irrigation scheme is one of more than 50 that dot the course of the Turkwell River. Many who practice agriculture here come from a lineage of herders, but are increasingly turning their efforts towards farming. “My including guarding the safety and quality of food all the way to the dinner table.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 6 – 12)

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Vessels are expected to seek shelter/alter their course to avoid the impacted areas,” Maersk, the world’s No. Lidl also shared that it had identified 11 critical raw materials and committed to setting responsible sourcing targets for each group of items. An earlier system included waves peaking at 10 meters (32.8

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Low cost, high impact?—?World Food Programme (WFP) pioneer recounts his work in Mongolia, a new…

World Food Programme Logistics

I’ve been with WFP on and off since 2009 when I joined as a Food Security Analysis Intern in The Gambia. This has an indirect but very real effect on food security and nutrition in the country, and the recurrent nature of the Dzud means vulnerability is chronic among many pastoralist communities. Two boys I met on a field visit.

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Growing Hope in Afghanistan

World Food Programme Logistics

Jawar Bibi decided to start looking for a job herself to help her family, with no success until a friend told her about the women’s affairs group in her community that supports vulnerable women. One woman had to move homes after her husband was threatened by members of an armed group. And we give advice to our neighbors, too.

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Central Sahel: the humanitarian crisis the world is ignoring

World Food Programme Logistics

Photo: WFP/Marwa Awad “Conflict is moving forward and moving fast,” says Margot van der Velden, Director of the World Food Programme (WFP)’s Emergencies division. million people are food insecure?—?a It is an area that is climate-shock prone, with the highest temperature and the least natural resources for agriculture.”