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Conflict Worsens Global Food Insecurity

Enterra Insights

“Conflict breeds hunger,” writes Marie Haga, Associate Vice-President of External Relations and Governance at the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development. Al-Assad deliberately used starvation as a military tactic in Syria’s on-going civil war. The consequences are always disastrous.

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Doing Business in Turkey

QAD

Its borders consist of Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Syria, and the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas. Turkey also has 24,082 km of paved roads, so transportation by truck is easy. Transportation of goods by rail is also feasible, with 12,710 km of railroad track within Turkey. Its latest constitution was adopted in 1982. of its GDP.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2016

Talking Logistics

more near-shoring and larger, less frequent shipments to minimize transportation costs). How will transportation, inventory, and sourcing policy decisions change in light of this cheap oil environment? So, the ball is in the court of those industries and their governing bodies to come up with their own sustainability goals and plans.

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The Future of Global Food Security

Enterra Insights

In the past half-decade, armed conflicts escalated across the world: Syria, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Nigeria, Myanmar. In addition to those who grow, raise, and produce our food, individuals and organizations involved in how that food is stored, processed, packaged, transported, and sold must also be involved. Then suddenly, wham!

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Impact of Trump Pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement on Manufacturing & Transportation

GlobalTranz

manufacturers, distributors or other partners, except for Syria and Nicaragua, will be at risk. The governments of other countries may look unfavorably at working with U.S. There are only three countries on the planet, counting the U.S. intention to withdraw, that are not part of the agreement now.