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How training and tools turned one mother from fruit buyer to fruit seller

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WFP’s livelihood programmes in Ethiopia are helping refugee families help themselves with new agricultural skills Story by Edward Johnson Nyangun’s garden is flourishing. She was given basic gardening tools and seeds in exchange for attending practical and theoretical agriculture classes. The garden didn’t exist a year ago.

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Growing food to tackle coronavirus and child malnutrition in Malawi

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WFP and Government are working to train mothers in agriculture as poor diets put the lives of 56,000 children at risk Empowered to grow: Dorica with homegrown, vitamin-A rich, sweet potatoes. million children under-5 could die over the next six months if health care and food markets are disrupted. Eventually, he fell sick.

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The food explorers of Nigeria

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Nigerian chefs tell why they cook, and how they use foods and vegetables from Nigeria to make healthy and nutritious meals ‘A man who calls his kinsmen to feast does not do so to save them from starving…We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.’?—?Chinua Proverbs that reference food to describe facets of life?

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Growing Food anywhere

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Growing food anywhere WFP tries out Hydroponics in Kakuma camps Maru Turich Ador, one of the youth participating in the WFP hydroponics trial in Kakuma inspects spinach growing on a net-tube. We usually just eat the food given to us like sorghum and peas?—?and and with the Bamba Chakula cash, we get mainly beans and wheat flour.

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Rural Women’s Day: ‘How we learned to dream again in Rwanda’

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A project the World Food Programme runs with UN Women, FAO and IFAD, empowers people to express their potential Members of the Bahoneza Cooperative in Nyaguru District. backed by UN Women , Food and Agriculture Organization , the International Fund for Agricultural Development , and the World Food Programme (WFP).

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Parents and pupils raring to go as schools gradually reopen in Kenya

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Many parents around the world can relate to her thoughts, but for Loise its not because of fatigue of constantly having to cook but that she simply does not have enough food to feed her seven children. Danger of dropping out Sarah Lugo and Said Bwoe at a school meals training in Kilifi county. We will have some maize today?—?plain

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Building resilience and new skills in rural Afghanistan

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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 to organize skills trainings. or “self-help” groups?—?to