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Key Takeaways from Oracle CloudWorld 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

This year, Mr. Ellison spun a vision of how the global agricultural industry’s value chain could be reconstructed to improve the quality of food while making the industry much more sustainable. According to Mr. Ellison, food grown indoors with AI powered greenhouses has the potential to use 98% less water and 90% less land.

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PepsiCo’s Massive, Complex, and Difficult Greenhouse Gas Initiative

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PepsiCo is a very big company, the second largest food and beverage company in the world. PepsiCo generated $79 billion in net revenue in 2021, with 23 food and beverage brands that generate more than $1 billion each in retail sales. Those brands include Pepsi, of course, but also Lay’s, Quaker, Doritos, Cheetos, and Gatorade.

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WFP and Kyrgyzstan Government respond to coronavirus challenges

World Food Programme Logistics

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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Food aid: cooking with numbers

World Food Programme Logistics

Arif Husain, Chief Economist of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), reflects on the metrics of global food output and needs There are 821 million hungry people in the world. When you’re an economist working in food assistance, the metrics of access to food keep you awake at night. Or maybe not. and indeed, we do.

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On World Milk Day, WFP counts how much milk it has helped put on people’s shelves

World Food Programme Logistics

And, thanks to the World Food Programme (WFP), it’s a staple on shelves in homes, schools and shops across the country supporting the sustainability of the dairy sector, economic development, livelihoods and nutrition. In Lebanon’s agricultural heartland, the Bekaa Valley, women are taking classes in dairy production.

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Logistics in Ukraine: Still Going

Logistics Business Magazine

The map contains 81 projects and covers 14 industries: agriculture, construction, transport and logistics , processing, food, fuel, light/heavy industry, tourism, education/development, mining, waste management, healthcare, administrative and support services. Of course, there are companies that have left the market.

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Nicaragua: ‘It’s scary to listen to the sounds of nature’

World Food Programme Logistics

WFP teams assist hard-hit indigenous communities as Hurricane Eta courses across the Caribbean People salvage wooden beams to rebuild destroyed structures. Livelihoods drawn from fishing and subsistence agriculture are disrupted on Bilwi. WFP is helping with telecommunications as well as supplying food to people in distress.