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World Food Day: WFP works towards food security one sack at a time

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World Food Day: How WFP works towards food security?—?one one sack at a time A glimpse into how the World Food Programme buys food for nearly 100 million people A warehouse in Kano, one of three urban hubs in Nigeria, where WFP has launched cash and food assistance programmes in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Using food to create community assets

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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. After the 3.5

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Why Sustainable Food Systems are Needed in a post-COVID World

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2020 will be a year of reckoning for the world’s food systems. What could this mean for food systems? Story by Nicoletta Batini, James Lomax, and Divya Mehra Food systems are essential to economic activity because they provide the energy that we need to live and work. They are evidence that the global food supply chain?—?highly

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Coronavirus exacerbates indigenous peoples’ historic vulnerabilities

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WFP provides food assistance to help communities get through the pandemic Poor access to healthcare and other essential services makes indigenous peoples particularly vulnerable to COVID-19. In Bolivia, the agency provided food assistance for the first time to 238 members of the Uru-Murato community who had decided to self-isolate.

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Your neighbor is your brother- agricultural stability in a war- torn country

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Your neighbor is your brother- agricultural stability in a war-torn country In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the opposing Twa and Luba tribes are on peaceful terms thanks to a joint resilience project implemented by the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

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US Business Groups Want NAFTA Trucking Rules to Stay Intact

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based retailers, agriculture groups and transportation councils urged in a letter to the government’s trade agency to preserve trucking provisions in any new version of the North American Free Trade Agreement. More than 100 U.S.-based

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Inequity in the agri-food chain and waste of food

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The article entitled “Inequity in the agri-food chain and waste of food” analyzes the topic of food waste using the case specific to fruit production in the Spanish city of Lleida, arguing that this does not depend on the level of modernization of its chain logistics in terms of technology, but it is a problem of power within it.

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