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Meet Ali’s cash cow, Subha

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Meet Ali’s cash cow, Sabah The Bekaa Valley is the agricultural heartland of Lebanon where many people own cows. One day in spring, a conversation with a local vet about Sabah’s problematic knee resulted in Ali enrolling in a paid course on livestock care. Ali’s cash cow, Sabah. they’re vital for a big girl like her.”

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PepsiCo’s Massive, Complex, and Difficult Greenhouse Gas Initiative

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PepsiCo is a very big company, the second largest food and beverage company in the world. PepsiCo generated $79 billion in net revenue in 2021, with 23 food and beverage brands that generate more than $1 billion each in retail sales. Those brands include Pepsi, of course, but also Lay’s, Quaker, Doritos, Cheetos, and Gatorade.

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WFP and Kyrgyzstan Government respond to coronavirus challenges

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Collaboration underway to make sure nutritious food reaches people who need it most WFP meets project beneficiaries to explain safety measures during food distribution: Photo: WFP/Mariia Babieva WFP is working around the clock to maintain food assistance programmes in Kyrgyzstan while monitoring the socioeconomic situation across the country.

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What is Supply Chain Resilience?

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COVID-19 triggered an unprecedented surge in panic buying of food, beverages, hand sanitizer, toilet paper, and other essentials. Of course, toilet paper and paper towels were in short supply as well. COVID-19 exposed vulnerabilities in food supply chains. Panic Buying Challenged Retailers and Suppliers.

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Women in the driving seat of development in Tanzania

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In Tanzania, where the World Food Programme (WFP) assisted 28,500 smallholder farmers last year, women account for more than half of the people WFP serves in its bid to develop a better future for people at risk of going hungry. challenges such as climate change and malnutrition. Hilda with her grandson Michael. Photo: WFP/Max Wohlgemuth.

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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. For Target, it’s both about meeting consumer demand and living up to its own corporate pledges. An earlier system included waves peaking at 10 meters (32.8 2 container carrier, said in an advisory.

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

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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. My name is Darko and I’m from Serbia.