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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. Nutritious food enjoyed at school feeds the bodies and minds of children.

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WFP and Cargill team up with these 8 Innovators to #disrupthunger

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Teams were selected for their expertise in the areas of nutrition, food processing and digital solutions for smallholder farmers, among others. In addition, each team will have the opportunity to present their solution to an audience of WFP leadership, government donors and potential investors at a pitch night on Thursday, 16 May.

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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. Since then, Kenya has approved its school feeding and nutrition strategy, with technical support from the WFP Centre of Excellence.

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Against the odds

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Against all the odds: Reaching those in need in South Sudan Negotiating for humanitarian space to save and improve lives in South Sudan Villagers help offload food from a WFP-contracted truck in Karam, Ayod county. So how did WFP deliver 320,000 metric tons of food to 5.3 sometimes a devilish puzzle?—?so But, that’s not all.

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6 Types of Automation [Benefits, Pros/Cons, Examples]

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They have fixed machines that enable their production of large quantities of soft same-unit drinks to meet high demands. It's ideal for medium-to-high production volumes and suitable for batch production processes such as factories making food variants. Food and beverage processing What Are Industrial Automation Systems?

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Africa awakes

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Speaking on the sidelines of the Katanga Business Meeting (KBM) in Lubumbashi recently, Mulongo said that African ports were underdeveloped compared with their global counterparts. Increasing Africa’s exports of manufactured, semi-processed or agricultural goods would significantly improve the imbalance in containerised trade, PwC notes.