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Reducing Emissions in the Food & Beverage Industry Requires Farmers to Make Progress

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Global food companies are increasingly promising to make progress in reducing emissions across their end-to-end value chain. In the food & beverage industry, farmers are the key suppliers. In the US, agriculture creates 11% of greenhouse gas emissions. But some companies are struggling.

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3 Ways the U.S. Government Plans to Reform the Food Supply Chain

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The food supply chain is a complex and intricate system that is responsible for getting food from farms to grocery stores. One of the biggest problems facing the food supply chain today is delays. government has announced that it is taking actions to reform the food supply chain. Now, the U.S. Now, the U.S. Next, the U.S.

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Baltimore Bridge Collapse: An Opportunity to Reinforce the Importance of Supply Chain Resilience

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The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore being struck by the Dali and collapsing is an unpredictable disruption to the supply chains of several industries including automobiles, coal, and agricultural machinery. The port also handles coke, iron ore, and steel, which are related to the coal industry.

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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. Because of the food giant’s size, their sustainability strategy also is very broad.

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Making pickles, jams, juice and olives more accessible

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A paved road and water reservoirs make dreams come true A World Food Programme (WFP) construction project brings hope to smallholder farmers and boosts small agribusinesses in Lebanon’s Chouf. Photo: WFP/Mazen Hodeib “We had to carry all of our tools up the hill and all of the produce down the hill. It wasn’t just the tools?—?it

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Top 6 Retail Trends & Supply Chain Planning Challenges in 2023

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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. That is, AI tools can do a lot of the heavy lifting. Not to mention that food waste costs retailers about $18.2 billion a year.

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Low cost, high impact?—?World Food Programme (WFP) pioneer recounts his work in Mongolia, a new…

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I’ve been with WFP on and off since 2009 when I joined as a Food Security Analysis Intern in The Gambia. This has an indirect but very real effect on food security and nutrition in the country, and the recurrent nature of the Dzud means vulnerability is chronic among many pastoralist communities. Two boys I met on a field visit.