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Why Sustainable Food Systems are Needed in a post-COVID World

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2020 will be a year of reckoning for the world’s food systems. What could this mean for food systems? Story by Nicoletta Batini, James Lomax, and Divya Mehra Food systems are essential to economic activity because they provide the energy that we need to live and work. They are evidence that the global food supply chain?—?highly

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The food explorers of Nigeria

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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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50 million meals for families in need

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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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Adapting farmers to climate variability in Malawi

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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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In Kenya, WFP’s hydroponics project is growing through COVID-19

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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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This Week in Logistics News (May 14 – 20)

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We are seeing it now in terms of truck drivers and warehouse workers, and Walmart is an example of a company that has been trying to get ahead of these shortages by offering higher wages and on-the-job perks. Kroger’s foundation is funding food waste research. Wingcopter to deploy 12,000 drones across Africa.

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When supply chain meets chocolate

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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.