World Food Programme Logistics

APRIL 22, 2020

the poorest and most food-insecure communities. First, farmers who lack savings and access to credit sell productive assets during a drought to pay for food. Photo: WFP/Edward Johnson The World Food Programme’s (WFP) R4 Rural Resilience Initiative is helping families to manage these risks from harvest to harvest. Risk taking ?—?providing

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Ship Monk

JANUARY 8, 2024

While you may not think much about these three little letters signifying the US Food and Drug Administration , they exist for the protection of all consumers. In general, these standards safeguard citizens against products that could be harmful to health, food-related emergencies, and bioterrorism. Exaggeration? Definitely not.

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World Food Programme Logistics

MAY 21, 2019

From Food Insecure To Self-Reliant How asset creation and livelihood diversification leads to resilience in Kenya’s arid counties. Picture: WFP/Alessandro Abbonizio “I wanted for us to be self-sufficient, because I knew that one day the free food would end.” When it was our turn, we bought seeds and some chickens” says Susan.

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World Food Programme Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Photo: Alexis Masciarelli Climate-risk-informed development for sood sefcurity Background & Concept Note WFP and its partners envision a world in which all people, including future generations, are well-nourished and food secure and in which food systems can absorb and manage emerging patterns of risk.

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World Food Programme Logistics

APRIL 18, 2020

When Djata’s women’s farmer group chose her to be their Secretary, which requires travel outside the village, there was angst among some members about what her husband Kassoum’s reaction would be. Djata is one of the few women in the group who can read and write. I want our women’s farmer group to advance together.”

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3PL Links

AUGUST 17, 2024

Logistics of food distribution are an essential part of the industrial process. From the point of manufacturing to the point of sale and the end user, it is in charge of guaranteeing the integrity and food safety of the products. What is food distribution logistics? There is a risk to food associated with each of these steps.

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Logistics Manager

MARCH 12, 2019

Connect Group is integrating their strengths, proficiencies, and transport and logistics service experiences from all their affiliates to maximize its service quality. The groups goal is to promote Thailand’s import-export growth and to help open the door to a wider variety of global destinations with their comprehensive care and support.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

APRIL 11, 2020

Any food product, including non-alcoholic beverages ; Animal food ; and. Chemicals, packaging and ancillary products used in the production of any food product ; Cleaning and Hygiene Products. container operators/carriers, container depots, sea or air transit sheds, air de-grouping depots, railway stations, etc.)

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Animals that try to take a bite out of a cactus seeking food or moisture will get bitten back by those thorns. In this arid climate they created a fertile agricultural region that supported tens of thousands of people.

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World Food Programme Logistics

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The 41-year-old belongs to a group of people living with HIV in Cameroon’s Adamawa region. There are eight such groups in the town of Meiganga, each with 25 members?—?80 What unites group members along with their HIV status, he adds, is social and economic empowerment they receive?—?WFP 80 percent of them are women.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2023

The Dirty Dozen, in alphabetical order, are: Amazon, Atlantic Coast Utilities/Laurence Moloney, Daikin America, Dollar General, Ernst Nursery and Farms, Foundation Food Group/Gold Creek Foods, Hilton Hotels, Kingspan Light and Air, Liox Cleaners/Wash Supply Laundromat, Mayfield Consumer Products, Refresco, and Starbucks.

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Airfreight Logistics

MAY 5, 2020

The initiative was established by the Australian Government to accelerate delivery of agricultural and fisheries exports into key overseas markets, as Etihad Cargo reports that over 560 Australian businesses already registering their interest in utilizing the International Freight Assistance Mechanism.

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World Food Programme Logistics

JULY 11, 2019

A partnership between WFP and ACTED has helped more than 10,000 people to improve their food security and withstand weather extremes. Employment in agriculture dominates the labour market, encompassing 44 percent of all jobs. WFP provided food and cash to 2.7 Women attend a community group meeting.

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World Food Programme Logistics

MARCH 19, 2020

Photo: WFP/Peter Louis By Peyvand Khorsandi “For the first time we’re seeing the potential for peace to bring prosperity,” says Matthew Hollingsworth, the World Food Programme’s (WFP) Country director in South Sudan. Vast swarms of desert locust are devouring crops and threatening food supplies and livelihoods in the country.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 13, 2021

ASTI Mobile Robotics Group , with offices in Spain, Germany, France and United States, provides automated intralogistics solutions for large manufacturers, helping them to optimise productivity, streamlining production processes and cutting operational costs.

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World Food Programme Logistics

JUNE 6, 2019

Women take the lead in boosting livelihoods in rural Sierra Leone How cash transfers are powering women’s efforts to improve food security and livelihoods in Sierra Leone Women harvesting their crop at a rice field in Helebu, Pujehun district of Sierra Leone. giving her children more nutritious food and keeping them healthy.

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World Food Programme Logistics

OCTOBER 2, 2019

New investors, family farmers and the changing face of agriculture in Congo Call it a paradox. Yet the Food and Agriculture Organization estimates the nation relies on imports for 80 per cent of its food. Every year, Congo spends more than a billion US dollars in food imports? Grow food, in addition to feed.

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World Food Programme Logistics

JULY 8, 2020

Reforesting in Lebanon: Improving food security seed by seed A World Food Programme forest management project is boosting livelihoods, preserving Lebanon’s greenery and putting food on the table Ahmad Sinjer is expanding his family’s agri-business after learning how to extract seeds on his own. one of WFP’s core goals.

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World Food Programme Logistics

MARCH 6, 2020

The sessions taught them how to diversify their diets using locally sourced foods. Several times on my way back home from work I would buy nutritious food items for the family,” says Rashid. Amos Kalebi is a community member with experience and interest in agriculture and animal keeping.

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World Food Programme Logistics

APRIL 9, 2020

Photo: WFP/Claire Nevill Just like millions of parents around the world, Rebecca Kapaira is balancing home-schooling her five children with trying to work so she can put food on the table?—?a What she fears most of all is not being able to put food on the table. There is nowhere to get food. a daunting task.

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World Food Programme Logistics

JUNE 23, 2020

Photo: WFP/Prisca Owato By Liam Brown Around the world, the coronavirus pandemic is making it harder to get groceries and shop for fresh food. Hydroponics is a method for growing plants using no soil and dramatically less water than traditional agriculture?—?up up to 90 percent.

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World Food Programme Logistics

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

UN agencies, together with civil society organizations and church groups, are currently conducting a rapid needs assessment in the province of Albay, one of the worst-affected. While WFP has not been asked to supply food, it is providing logistical assistance. The six trucks were carrying a total of 9,600 family food packs?—?each

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World Food Programme Logistics

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

WFP warns Make food a tool for peace instead, urges Executive Director Marking International Day of Peace today, the World Food Programme (WFP)’s Executive Director David Beasley is adamant: “There’s no two ways about it?—?we Lack of food due to conflict is a well-established fact. A weapon of war or a tool for peace?

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World Food Programme Logistics

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Surveys had shown that the land in Kalobeyei was fertile and with a well-thought out plan, rainwater harvesting was feasible and could support agricultural activities. Today, central to this settlement is a 400 hectare (ha) piece of land set aside for agriculture. This land is being used by both refugees and the host community?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2024

Lidl also shared that it had identified 11 critical raw materials and committed to setting responsible sourcing targets for each group of items. In it, Lidl outlined such efforts as reducing scope 1 and scope 2 greenhouse-gas emissions by 63% by the end of 2022 as it works toward a 70% reduction by 2030. instead of midday across Australia.

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World Food Programme Logistics

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Isabella Uwizeyimana, a maize farmer from the Coopabinya farmer cooperative in southern Rwanda, attributes her success to RWEE’s training on improved agriculture practices and post-harvest handling. They are also encouraged to think big and work for progress within their communities.

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World Food Programme Logistics

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Central Sahel: How peace can sprout from rehabilitated soil World Food Programme resilience projects are empowering people affected by conflict and climate change in Africa Burkina Faso: A woman tends to crops grown through a community project involving displaced people. But that’s not all,” she insists. “It That is resilience?—?and

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World Food Programme Logistics

AUGUST 1, 2019

‘Being able to breastfeed my daughter is the best gift that I can give her’ Cash assistance from the World Food Programme is securing a nutrition boost for mothers in drought-hit Honduras Flora nurses her daughter in the queue to draw cash. Drought has destroyed crops and wrecked harvests in the country?—?as

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World Food Programme Logistics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Families face triple threat of climate, conflict and coronavirus in Mali WFP provides support to most vulnerable as 5 million affected by food insecurity Fousseini Kane, a herder and fisherman in Kandia village. Then they would share them with the most vulnerable groups, including elderly, sick and widowed people. “It This includes 2.4

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World Food Programme Logistics

JANUARY 29, 2020

Many who practice agriculture here come from a lineage of herders, but are increasingly turning their efforts towards farming. “My Katilu irrigation scheme covers about 600 hectares and is the primary source of food and income for over 2,500 families,” explains Phillip Ebong’on, a leader of a section of the scheme.

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World Food Programme Logistics

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

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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World Food Programme Logistics

APRIL 29, 2020

Ponds built by communities in South Sudan with support from the World Food Programme give much more than just water WFP helps communities rehabilitate or create assets such as ponds which can store runoff water for extended periods. Countless Benefits In dry seasons, food and water are scarce. Support doesn’t end with digging the pond.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

APRIL 25, 2020

Any food product, including non-alcoholic beverages ; Animal food ; and. Chemicals, packaging and ancillary products used in the production of any food product ; Cleaning and Hygiene Products. container operators/carriers, container depots, sea or air transit sheds, air de-grouping depots, railway stations, etc.)

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World Food Programme Logistics

JUNE 12, 2020

WFP has provided 260 farmers from 52 farmer groups over 1,050 modern Langstroth beehives and accessories to boost honey production and fully benefit from this highly lucrative industry. 260 farmers from 52 farmer groups across the county have received 1,050 modern Langstroth beehives from WFP to boost honey production.

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World Food Programme Logistics

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

With 75 percent of the world’s croplands being rainfed, rainfall arriving at the wrong time and place can have a devastating effect on people’s incomes and food security. Training day in Chikwawa It’s a busy Friday for the agricultural extension officers of Chikwawa and for Kajawoto village.

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Material Handling and Logistics

JANUARY 5, 2018

percentage point from core inflation, which excludes food and energy prices. Wien, an executive at Blackstone Group LP, included a rise in U.S. Wall Street banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. the world’s top producer of agricultural commodities, is helping to increase the price of wheat and other grains.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The market is also growing across a wide range of commercial sectors, including the following: 1) Food and Perishables. Transporting and storing perishable food requires advanced logistics that is beyond the reach of many companies. Agriculture. Let’s take a brief look at each one in turn: Primary Connect. Print and packaging.

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