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

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

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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Food Logistics

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

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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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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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As part of the inaugural meeting of the White House Council on Supply Chain Resilience, the US Department of Agriculture ( USDA ) is investing $196 million to strengthen the agricultural supply chain and lower food costs. million through the Food Supply Chain Guaranteed Loan Program. FlexCold LLC plans to use $8.2

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World Food Programme Logistics

JUNE 6, 2019

Meeting demand in Kenya for food safety and quality control All grain suppliers in Marsabit County now know that they need to be certified and issued with a public health certificate A trained public health officer tests maize kernels for mycotoxins such as aflatoxin and fumonisin using mobile laboratory equipment at Marsabit District Hospital.

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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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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 5, 2020

International Women’s Day: In Cox’s Bazar growers are expanding their customer base to include residents of WFP-backed camps Mithu is one of the farmers benefiting from the World Food Programme’s work with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. such as microloans and national agricultural schemes?—?that

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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

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

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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World Food Programme Logistics

JANUARY 15, 2020

Credit: WFP Bangladesh/Mehedi Rahman The Tribal Women of Bangladesh The mountainous region in Southeastern Bangladesh, called the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), borders India and Myanmar and is home to more than 11 tribal groups. With the money, I can buy enough food for my family of five,” says Marma.

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World Food Programme Logistics

MAY 19, 2020

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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World Food Programme Logistics

JULY 21, 2020

World Food Programme trains cooperatives to make a nutritious energy bar?—?which million people, where the World Food Programme (WFP) assists more nearly 73,000. million people, where the World Food Programme (WFP) assists more nearly 73,000. As a result, food prices in Brazzaville spiked by 15 percent.

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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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World Food Programme Logistics

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Peter is one of a 40-member farmer group in Beremaku One in Yambio, located about 355 km west of South Sudan’s capital, Juba. Despite the best climatic conditions for agriculture in their area, Peter and his colleagues had given-up on commercial farming due to poor road networks, low crop yields and lack of market to sell their produce.

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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 Viewpoints

AUGUST 12, 2022

Demand for grocery delivery cools as food costs rise. Earlier this week, the company announced that it will acquire Italy’s Bomi Group, which provides global healthcare logistics services. The value of Japan’s agricultural and seafood exports in the first six months of 2022 expanded 13.1 percent to 38.7 percent to 20.9

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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

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

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

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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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2024

In a world where logistics is crucial to disaster response, IAG Cargo , the cargo division of International Airlines Group, continues to lead in delivering essential aid during humanitarian crises.

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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

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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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

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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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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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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Locus

DECEMBER 14, 2021

What would Thanksgiving be without any fresh food and turkeys? If there is a special acknowledgement, it should definitely go to the field agents who delivered turkeys and fresh food before that special day. US Department of Agriculture, Aug 31, 2021. – US Department of Agriculture Turkey market news report, Nov 26, 2021.

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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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APRIL 17, 2019

Federal regulators have granted a five-year exemption to the Agricultural & Food Transporters Conference of American Trucking Associations, clearing a variety of alternative methods to secure agricultural commodities grouped into large singular units.

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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

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

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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