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OCTOBER 17, 2019

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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JUNE 6, 2019

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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OCTOBER 27, 2020

World Food Programme and UNDP Peacebuilding Fund Project work together to assist communities hit by the pandemic Cash allows people to select the foods they need. In Sierra Leone, the relationship between Socfin Agricultural Company, in Sierra Leone, and landowners in Sahn Malen chiefdom hasn’t always been a cosy one.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Greenhouse of hope for Afghan refugees in the Islamic Republic of Iran WFP and its UN sister agency the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) work together to boost resilience Zahra Samandari, Mohajerin Semnan Settlement. have been trained on developing irrigation and nutritious crops, while linking their products to markets.

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MAY 26, 2020

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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AUGUST 25, 2020

The agreement was forged between WFP, the Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources and Energy (MENRE), the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Agrarian Reform (MAFAR), the Ministry of Interior and Local Government (MILG), and the Bangsamoro Planning and Development Authority (BPDA).

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FEBRUARY 11, 2018

Leading global logistics provider DB Schenker will soon make their inaugural shipment of fresh produce using a block train with 11 refrigerator containers to transport goods to Moscow Walter West Station from Qingbaijiang International Railway Port in Chengdu, China.

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JULY 11, 2019

A partnership between WFP and ACTED has helped more than 10,000 people to improve their food security and withstand weather extremes. Employment in agriculture dominates the labour market, encompassing 44 percent of all jobs. WFP provided food and cash to 2.7 to organize skills trainings. or “self-help” groups?—?to

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JANUARY 6, 2020

will focus on the Moyamba and Pujehun districts, where land acquisitions and widespread degradation of farming lands are having a deep impact on communities, who mainly rely on agriculture for their means of livelihood and have suffered a reduction in agricultural production, access to food and income.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

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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SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Stop food waste, start making profit Breaking the cycle of hunger through post-harvest skills Rufina winnows maize at Gwiritse Cooperative warehouse. Imagine what one farmer could do if all that food was not wasted?—?and and now imagine what this would mean if this happened with millions of food-insecure farmers.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

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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JUNE 6, 2019

Women take the lead in boosting livelihoods in rural Sierra Leone How cash transfers are powering women’s efforts to improve food security and livelihoods in Sierra Leone Women harvesting their crop at a rice field in Helebu, Pujehun district of Sierra Leone. giving her children more nutritious food and keeping them healthy.

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JUNE 23, 2020

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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MARCH 14, 2023

The hostilities have hindered the smooth flow of goods, leading to increased costs and product shortages, including food shortages on a catastrophic scale worldwide. Rise of Food Prices Russia – Ukraine war has had a substantial impact on global food prices, with grains experiencing a particularly sharp increase.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

WFP and partners work together to reduce gender-based violence and improve gender equality Jackeline has been trained and empowered by RWEE to transform gender norms in her community. The rise is fuelled by household economic challenges, food insecurity and confined living conditions due to lockdown and social isolation measures.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2019

We’ve got food and investments to face it,” he adds, referring to the nutrition support and village savings and loans scheme they have via assistance from the World Food Programme. Mariamou Abdou said that before her admission into the programme, she used to struggle to provide food to her family of eight.

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JULY 21, 2020

World Food Programme trains cooperatives to make a nutritious energy bar?—?which million people, where the World Food Programme (WFP) assists more nearly 73,000. million people, where the World Food Programme (WFP) assists more nearly 73,000. As a result, food prices in Brazzaville spiked by 15 percent.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Photo: WFP/Edward Johnson The combination of a brutal climate, limited employment opportunities and a volatile security context means that the residents of Shambal depend on food assistance from the World Food Progrmame (WFP) for survival. My family is lucky,” explained father-of-seven, Ibrahim. “We So far, SIIPE has delivered ETB 12.6

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APRIL 30, 2019

We hardly ever had enough food and we could not afford to send our children to school,” she says. Food on the table and new skills for tomorrow Ten years and eight water pumps later, Esther and Munyithya are now model farmers, mentoring others in the village. a project targeting families facing a severe lack of food.

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JANUARY 15, 2020

However, there are still many people working as subsistence farmers, relying on rain-fed agriculture to provide for their families. Every year, our crops are completely destroyed by rains and we barely have enough food for the year,” says Nu Hai Marma, an elderly woman.

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JULY 8, 2020

Reforesting in Lebanon: Improving food security seed by seed A World Food Programme forest management project is boosting livelihoods, preserving Lebanon’s greenery and putting food on the table Ahmad Sinjer is expanding his family’s agri-business after learning how to extract seeds on his own. one of WFP’s core goals.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Despite the best climatic conditions for agriculture in their area, Peter and his colleagues had given-up on commercial farming due to poor road networks, low crop yields and lack of market to sell their produce. Some 35 percent of the population in the Western part of Equatoria region are at crisis point in regard to their food security.

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MARCH 5, 2020

International Women’s Day: In Cox’s Bazar growers are expanding their customer base to include residents of WFP-backed camps Mithu is one of the farmers benefiting from the World Food Programme’s work with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. such as microloans and national agricultural schemes?—?that

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MAY 20, 2022

The retail giant has launched a program to recruit and train college graduates to become store managers, promising a starting wage of at least $65,000 a year and an accelerated two-year track into the top store job. Kroger’s foundation is funding food waste research. Wingcopter to deploy 12,000 drones across Africa.

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MARCH 2, 2020

And it’s the poorest people there who suffer most, especially during the ‘lean’ season when food stocks run low and families have no source of income until the next harvest. Photo: WFP/Muhammad Salah Sudan is one of many countries across Africa facing food insecurity despite having an agriculture-based economy.

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JUNE 2, 2020

Voices from Cambodia, Egypt, El Salvador, Kenya and Madagascar on how the World Food Programme is changing lives Yemen is another country where the World Food Programme is empowering women. Globally, women are more likely than men to suffer from hunger and food insecurity. The initiative provides small-scale farmers?—?nearly

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JULY 31, 2019

Sorghum- so good The World Food Programme (WFP) is encouraging farmers to grow sorghum, a drought tolerant small grain Look at the picture on the left. In Zimbabwe, the staple food is maize. Look at the picture on your right. Would you believe they were taken in the same village on the same day? What’s the difference? Left: Sorghum.

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MARCH 1, 2019

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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APRIL 29, 2020

Ponds built by communities in South Sudan with support from the World Food Programme give much more than just water WFP helps communities rehabilitate or create assets such as ponds which can store runoff water for extended periods. Countless Benefits In dry seasons, food and water are scarce.

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MARCH 27, 2020

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.

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MARCH 6, 2020

The sessions taught them how to diversify their diets using locally sourced foods. Several times on my way back home from work I would buy nutritious food items for the family,” says Rashid. Amos Kalebi is a community member with experience and interest in agriculture and animal keeping.

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AUGUST 13, 2020

Côte d’Ivoire: ‘We represent the first phase of Ivorian returnees’ new lives’ World Food Programme field monitor Minta Koné is welcoming people who left after the country’s 2010–11 election crisis Minta started her career with WFP as a volunteer. I joined the World Food Programme in 2017. I could not wait to get back into the field. “I

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Many who practice agriculture here come from a lineage of herders, but are increasingly turning their efforts towards farming. “My Katilu irrigation scheme covers about 600 hectares and is the primary source of food and income for over 2,500 families,” explains Phillip Ebong’on, a leader of a section of the scheme.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Taleb’s plan for agricultural production could barely have been more challenging. Even if families like Taleb’s had enjoyed the right conditions to grow food or fodder, they wouldn’t have known how to do it. “We We are originally nomads, we did not have an agricultural background or the means to survive?—?the

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JUNE 2, 2020

The incidence of extreme weather events, including droughts, floods and storms, has doubled since the early 1990s, threatening to push up to 100 million people into severe food insecurity and increase malnutrition in children. WFP also provided nutrition support and longer-term food and cash assistance, reaching a total of 1.6

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

How school meals feed smiles and hope in southern Madagascar World Food Programme (WFP) provides meals to 300,000 children in drought-stricken region On a sunny day, 11-year-old Séverine and her classmates are having good time at the school refectory in the village of Tsongobory, southern Madagascar. up to 10 kilometres?—?between

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