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The time for climate action is now!

World Food Programme Logistics

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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Communications key staffing and supply chain issues

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Clear communications will be essential for supply chain firms to tackle future challenges in recruiting and retaining good staff, according to speakers at a recent packaging business conference. The meeting included presentations by two government ministers. If we don’t deliver on forestry, we won’t deliver on climate,” he said.

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Continental commitment by African Governments to school feeding

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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. School meals programmes are an investment in Africa’s future.

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

World Food Programme Logistics

It also started to support four African countries in connecting smallholder farmers producing food and cotton to institutional markets, including school feeding programmes. It encompasses a view of the whole cotton farming system, linking regenerative agriculture, nutrition, poverty reduction and local development.

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School feeding in Senegal brings the wider community into the mix

World Food Programme Logistics

A visit to Saré Bidji shows how government, people and the World Food Programme are putting children’s futures first President Macky Sall has pledged to launch a national school feeding programme targeting rural and peri-urban areas this year, following advocacy by WFP and the Ministry of National Education.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 19 – 25)

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The ripple effects of the conflict in Ukraine will further drive up US food prices. Canadian Pacific rail work stoppage could hit US agriculture. However, food and farming costs are expected to rise. I have no choice but to pay it to meet my target crop yields.” The driving factor here is fertilizer.