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“This workshop came along at the right time”

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Our office is going to buy four drones, and I will go back and show other staff how to use them,” he explains, while waiting for his turn to practice flying the drone obstacle course. This workshop came along at the right time,” says Mey Riveiro, a participant who works for the Ministry of Agriculture in Honduras. “In

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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. Two boys I met on a field visit.

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Resources for Women in the Skilled Trades

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A lack of representation of women occurs in industries such as construction, manufacturing, utilities, other industrial types of employment such as agriculture and mining, or services such as repair and maintenance, automotive repair, and commercial and industrial machinery repair. Women’s participation in the U.S. Construction: 9.9%

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Cultivating seeds and dreams in Lebanon

World Food Programme Logistics

How sustainable agriculture courses in the Bekaa Valley are boosting livelihoods and benefiting entire communities Nestled amid green fields in the centre of Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley is a seemingly unremarkable farm. In fact, there’s a bumper crop of farmers graduating from the sustainable agriculture courses being run on this farm.