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Stand and deliver: 10 years of the global Food Security Cluster

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World Food Programme and Food and Agriculture Organization join their partners to mark a decade of collaboration South Sudan: Fishing kits and seeds provided by FAO as part of a rapid-response mission with WFP, Oxfam and Save the Children. Photo: FAO Last week in Rome, the global Food Security Cluster ?—?of

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World Food Programme staff respond to coronavirus in Lebanon

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WFP humanitarians are stepping up efforts to ensure vulnerable people across the country receive life-saving food assistance Ruba al-Dirany is a monitoring assistant for WFP in the Bekaa area. WFP works to ensure the most vulnerable have sufficient and nutritious food all year long. Fatima Mouzahem and Rona Haddad?—?WFP

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Communications key staffing and supply chain issues

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In his presentation, Mike Glennon, joint managing director of Ireland and UK timber processing firm Glennon Brothers, said the country needed to ensure that afforestation was made “easy, understandable and administratively manageable” to enable it to meet its EU carbon reduction targets.

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From burning trees to planting trees

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From burning to planting trees The World Food Programme (WFP) is helping farmers protect their environment Planting trees in the Chisongole Hills surrounding Mposa. With his crop yields declining, he cut down more and more trees for charcoal to make enough money to buy the food he could no longer grow. and tackle climate change.

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It takes a village to defeat HIV

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The other two are antiretroviral treatment (ART) and, perhaps less obviously, the nutritious food and support he receives from the World Food Programme (WFP). People also need to eat the right kind of food. Ensuring people living with HIV have enough of the right type of food throughout childhood?—?including

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Coronavirus and hunger: WFP ready to assist largest number of people ever

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Latin America at centre of concerns as invisible enemy hits countries beset by climate change and conflict Colombia: WFP and World Vision provide 5,000 food baskets to Colombians and migrants in Soacha, near Bogotá. billion in funding in order to reach up to 138 million people with food assistance by the end of the year?—?this

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How I grew barley in the desert

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Taleb’s plan for agricultural production could barely have been more challenging. Even if families like Taleb’s had enjoyed the right conditions to grow food or fodder, they wouldn’t have known how to do it. “We We are originally nomads, we did not have an agricultural background or the means to survive?—?the