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Using food to create community assets

World Food Programme Logistics

Food as a tool bringing South Sudan back to life How a road built with the help of WFP connects a community to a new world of opportunities A WFP four-wheel-drive vehicle cruising on the gravel road constructed by Madbai farmers’ group. The farmers’ group is 230 strong?—?most km gravel road to the world. most of them women.

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Logistics industry delivers HGV simulator to Zambia

Logistics Business Magazine

The donation followed a visit to ITC in 2018 by representatives of Big Change, Clipper Logistics, Malcolm Group and XPO. Daly explains: “This is a wonderful example of a group of companies, including competitors, coming together to support Transaid and ITC.

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Drones to the rescue as Cyclone Desmond storms Mozambique

World Food Programme Logistics

It is an example of how new technology can save lives and help communities hit by disasters within shorter time spans,” says Androulla Kaminara, Director at the European Union’s Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO). “In In some instances, photos of groups or individuals could put their lives at risk.

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Supply Chain & Logistics Education: Ask the Professors

The Logistics Academy

For example, as online sales reach a record high, B2C service provider Jet.com uses some creative logistics concepts to bring value to customers. For example, understanding collaboration and communication is as important as understanding modeling and technology. But hard skills must be coupled with soft skills.

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World Food Day: WFP and Unicef collaborate to improve nutrition

World Food Programme Logistics

Challenges often result from economic factors that reduce people’s access to a balanced diet, through different food groups. A bowl with dietary diversity messages included in the design to address food quality, and demarcations of age group, volume and number of meals inside the bowl. In Palestine people suffer crippling poverty.

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For the displaced and the forgotten

World Food Programme Logistics

Partially flexible or “softly earmarked” funding might be tied to a geographical region or a type of activity (for example, emergency response as opposed to development and root causes). With limited access to education, jobs and opportunities, the youth often migrate or join armed groups. In 2018, Belgium contributed US$5.4