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How training and tools turned one mother from fruit buyer to fruit seller

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WFP’s livelihood programmes in Ethiopia are helping refugee families help themselves with new agricultural skills Story by Edward Johnson Nyangun’s garden is flourishing. She was given basic gardening tools and seeds in exchange for attending practical and theoretical agriculture classes. The garden didn’t exist a year ago.

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The food explorers of Nigeria

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Nigerian chefs tell why they cook, and how they use foods and vegetables from Nigeria to make healthy and nutritious meals ‘A man who calls his kinsmen to feast does not do so to save them from starving…We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.’?—?Chinua Proverbs that reference food to describe facets of life?

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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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Creating jobs in the face of COVID-19

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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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This Week in Logistics News (May 14 – 20)

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The retail giant has launched a program to recruit and train college graduates to become store managers, promising a starting wage of at least $65,000 a year and an accelerated two-year track into the top store job. Kroger’s foundation is funding food waste research. Wingcopter to deploy 12,000 drones across Africa.

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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. He met his wife there and raised five children there.

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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. Photo: WFP/ Max Wohlgemuth “In 2019, I attended a two-day training with WFP. Photo: WFP/Max Wohlgemuth.