Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 20, 2022

The retail giant has launched a program to recruit and train college graduates to become store managers, promising a starting wage of at least $65,000 a year and an accelerated two-year track into the top store job. Kroger’s foundation is funding food waste research. Wingcopter to deploy 12,000 drones across Africa.

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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.”

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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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AUGUST 17, 2024

Logistics of food distribution are an essential part of the industrial process. From the point of manufacturing to the point of sale and the end user, it is in charge of guaranteeing the integrity and food safety of the products. What is food distribution logistics? There is a risk to food associated with each of these steps.

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World Food Programme Logistics

JANUARY 21, 2019

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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World Food Programme Logistics

OCTOBER 27, 2020

World Food Programme and UNDP Peacebuilding Fund Project work together to assist communities hit by the pandemic Cash allows people to select the foods they need. In Sierra Leone, the relationship between Socfin Agricultural Company, in Sierra Leone, and landowners in Sahn Malen chiefdom hasn’t always been a cosy one.

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World Food Programme Logistics

MAY 26, 2020

Collaboration underway to make sure nutritious food reaches people who need it most WFP meets project beneficiaries to explain safety measures during food distribution: Photo: WFP/Mariia Babieva WFP is working around the clock to maintain food assistance programmes in Kyrgyzstan while monitoring the socioeconomic situation across the country.

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World Food Programme Logistics

OCTOBER 17, 2019

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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World Food Programme Logistics

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Greenhouse of hope for Afghan refugees in the Islamic Republic of Iran WFP and its UN sister agency the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) work together to boost resilience Zahra Samandari, Mohajerin Semnan Settlement. have been trained on developing irrigation and nutritious crops, while linking their products to markets.

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World Food Programme Logistics

AUGUST 25, 2020

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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World Food Programme Logistics

JANUARY 6, 2020

will focus on the Moyamba and Pujehun districts, where land acquisitions and widespread degradation of farming lands are having a deep impact on communities, who mainly rely on agriculture for their means of livelihood and have suffered a reduction in agricultural production, access to food and income.

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World Food Programme Logistics

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Since the launch of the World Food Programme (WFP)’s ShareTheMeal app in 2015, almost 2 million people have joined the online community worldwide, sharing over 50 million meals?—?equivalent million people, and the world’s largest humanitarian crisis in Yemen which has made over 20 million Yemenis food insecure.

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

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World Food Programme Logistics

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

We’ve got food and investments to face it,” he adds, referring to the nutrition support and village savings and loans scheme they have via assistance from the World Food Programme. Mariamou Abdou said that before her admission into the programme, she used to struggle to provide food to her family of eight.

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World Food Programme Logistics

AUGUST 27, 2020

Coronavirus: WFP helps communities create potentially life-saving equipment while boosting incomes WFP project in Guinea sees activities that protect health and overall food security This tailor in Kokota received sewing machines and cash transfers for the production of face masks. Community members in Kokota are trained in soap making.

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World Food Programme Logistics

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Photo: WFP/Edward Johnson The combination of a brutal climate, limited employment opportunities and a volatile security context means that the residents of Shambal depend on food assistance from the World Food Progrmame (WFP) for survival. My family is lucky,” explained father-of-seven, Ibrahim. “We So far, SIIPE has delivered ETB 12.6

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Delivering climate services trainings in Mangochi, Chikwawa, Balantyre Authors: Ilenia Babetto, Katiuscia Fara and Dominic Nyirongo A farmer being trained on how to use climate information for making better cropping decisions. A farmer drawing a resource allocation map during the PICSA field practice.

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World Food Programme Logistics

DECEMBER 9, 2020

WFP and partners work together to reduce gender-based violence and improve gender equality Jackeline has been trained and empowered by RWEE to transform gender norms in her community. The rise is fuelled by household economic challenges, food insecurity and confined living conditions due to lockdown and social isolation measures.

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World Food Programme Logistics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Stop food waste, start making profit Breaking the cycle of hunger through post-harvest skills Rufina winnows maize at Gwiritse Cooperative warehouse. Imagine what one farmer could do if all that food was not wasted?—?and and now imagine what this would mean if this happened with millions of food-insecure farmers.

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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

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

MARCH 5, 2020

In Tanzania, where the World Food Programme (WFP) assisted 28,500 smallholder farmers last year, women account for more than half of the people WFP serves in its bid to develop a better future for people at risk of going hungry. Photo: WFP/ Max Wohlgemuth “In 2019, I attended a two-day training with WFP. Photo: WFP/Max Wohlgemuth.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2024

The use an overhead boom to load heavy shipping containers onto truck trailers and train cars, unloading them, and stacking them on terminals between pickups and deliveries. shipping containers and stacking them up to six high. Visibly similar to forklifts, top handlers grab containers from the top instead of lifting from the bottom.

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MARCH 2, 2020

And it’s the poorest people there who suffer most, especially during the ‘lean’ season when food stocks run low and families have no source of income until the next harvest. Photo: WFP/Muhammad Salah Sudan is one of many countries across Africa facing food insecurity despite having an agriculture-based economy.

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World Food Programme Logistics

JUNE 2, 2020

Voices from Cambodia, Egypt, El Salvador, Kenya and Madagascar on how the World Food Programme is changing lives Yemen is another country where the World Food Programme is empowering women. Globally, women are more likely than men to suffer from hunger and food insecurity. The initiative provides small-scale farmers?—?nearly

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World Food Programme Logistics

JANUARY 29, 2020

Many who practice agriculture here come from a lineage of herders, but are increasingly turning their efforts towards farming. “My Katilu irrigation scheme covers about 600 hectares and is the primary source of food and income for over 2,500 families,” explains Phillip Ebong’on, a leader of a section of the scheme.

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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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World Food Programme Logistics

APRIL 29, 2020

Ponds built by communities in South Sudan with support from the World Food Programme give much more than just water WFP helps communities rehabilitate or create assets such as ponds which can store runoff water for extended periods. Countless Benefits In dry seasons, food and water are scarce.

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MARCH 27, 2020

Indeed, this big multinational is the world leader in the food industry. It is for example one of the reason why more and more people are changing their diets to eat more organic and/or plant-based food. We all know Nestle, whether it is for their KitKat, their Nesquik chocolate powder.

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World Food Programme Logistics

MARCH 1, 2019

Spurring innovation, food safety and quality capacity strengthening and economic resilience This year’s Africa Day of School Feeding comes at the heels of the first ever Future of Food Safety Conference held at the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Nutritious food enjoyed at school feeds the bodies and minds of children.

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World Food Programme Logistics

JULY 31, 2019

Sorghum- so good The World Food Programme (WFP) is encouraging farmers to grow sorghum, a drought tolerant small grain Look at the picture on the left. In Zimbabwe, the staple food is maize. Look at the picture on your right. Would you believe they were taken in the same village on the same day? What’s the difference? Left: Sorghum.

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World Food Programme Logistics

AUGUST 13, 2020

Côte d’Ivoire: ‘We represent the first phase of Ivorian returnees’ new lives’ World Food Programme field monitor Minta Koné is welcoming people who left after the country’s 2010–11 election crisis Minta started her career with WFP as a volunteer. I joined the World Food Programme in 2017. I could not wait to get back into the field. “I

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World Food Programme Logistics

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The World Food Programme is implementing an array of measures to face up to the region’s challenges As world leaders gather in Madrid for the 25th UN Climate Change Conference (COP 25), Salvadoran farmer José Cirilo Mendoza looks worriedly at the sky?—?five which could help them generate incomes and achieve food security. leading to 1.4

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World Food Programme Logistics

JUNE 2, 2020

The incidence of extreme weather events, including droughts, floods and storms, has doubled since the early 1990s, threatening to push up to 100 million people into severe food insecurity and increase malnutrition in children. WFP also provided nutrition support and longer-term food and cash assistance, reaching a total of 1.6

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MARCH 14, 2023

The hostilities have hindered the smooth flow of goods, leading to increased costs and product shortages, including food shortages on a catastrophic scale worldwide. Rise of Food Prices Russia – Ukraine war has had a substantial impact on global food prices, with grains experiencing a particularly sharp increase.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2023

The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the following economic sanctions spiked energy prices and created new sourcing challenges for certain agricultural products and raw materials. Food waste produces 7% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, mainly methane, an extremely potent gas. billion a year.

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