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The time for climate action is now!

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As the UN’s annual Climate Change Conference kicks off in Madrid, Spain, the World Food Programme (WFP) highlights climate change as one of the key drivers of hunger. If global temperatures keep rising to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, an additional 189 million people could become more vulnerable to food insecurity.

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Kenya’s largest county builds demand for food safety and quality control

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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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Changing lives in 30 countries during 2018 thanks to the Brazilian experience

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It also started to support four African countries in connecting smallholder farmers producing food and cotton to institutional markets, including school feeding programmes. It organized, co-organized or participated in around 20 high-level events to strengthen advocacy for South-South cooperation, Zero Hunger and school feeding.

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The detention, demurrage fee conundrum

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Peter Friedmann, executive director, Agriculture. The FMC is uniquely positioned to set guidelines and a common understanding of what is fair and what is not fair,” said Alex Cherin, representing the California Trucking Association Intermodal Conference. Meetings after meetings, some facilitated by ports themselves, this commission.