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Philippines: From fighters to forest rangers and farmers

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The agreement was forged between WFP, the Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources and Energy (MENRE), the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Agrarian Reform (MAFAR), the Ministry of Interior and Local Government (MILG), and the Bangsamoro Planning and Development Authority (BPDA).

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Low cost, high impact?—?World Food Programme (WFP) pioneer recounts his work in Mongolia, a new…

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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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Cultivating seeds and dreams in Lebanon

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How sustainable agriculture courses in the Bekaa Valley are boosting livelihoods and benefiting entire communities Nestled amid green fields in the centre of Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley is a seemingly unremarkable farm. In fact, there’s a bumper crop of farmers graduating from the sustainable agriculture courses being run on this farm.

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Resources for Women in the Skilled Trades

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A lack of representation of women occurs in industries such as construction, manufacturing, utilities, other industrial types of employment such as agriculture and mining, or services such as repair and maintenance, automotive repair, and commercial and industrial machinery repair. Women’s participation in the U.S. Construction: 9.9%