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The Green Corridor: Resilience from Diversification

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The forest resources do not have to be imported yet, but sadly it is disappearing faster than it can grow back. Some countries even have geo-thermal resources (the same power which ignites volcanos) like Kenya and Indonesia. Fossil fuels, oil and gas and other commodities are not locally available.

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The Future of Food Security

Enterra Insights

”[5] The 20 levers are divided into six areas: 1) Natural Resource Management; 2) Governance and Institutions; 3) Education and Knowledge; 4) Technology; 5) Trade; and 6) Finance. Natural Resource Management Levers. Optimize land-use. Restore biodiversity. Increase carbon storage. Increase diversity.

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The introduction of E-Procurement.

ModusLink Corporation

Organizations in both public and private sectors are adopting systems such as the Electronic Data Interchange tool (EDI), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and of course the internet to benefit them when sourcing their goods (Adebayo, Dec 2015). International Non-Governmental Organisations in Kenya. 2017, April). Kapepo, S.

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Supply Chains have always shaped the World

Enterra Insights

Paul Simpson reports, “Excavations of the dry bed of the ancient Lake Olorgesailie, in southern Kenya, led by American paleoanthropologist Rick Potts, suggest that our ancestors created the first supply chain between 305,000 and 320,000 years ago, at least 80,000 years older than we previously thought.”[1] ” Principle 5.

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Commerical Air Cancellations Quarantine Ebola Supplies

MIT Supply Chain

Kenya Airways : Suspended commercial flights to Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone on August 19. Travel bans, which at face value seem to prevent the spread of disease, actually constrain the crucial human and material resources required to manage the Ebola outbreak.

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The Rise of China-Africa Trade: Why Transportation and Logistics Should be Front and Center

BlueYonder

For instance, main ports in Africa – such as Kenya, South Africa or Nigeria – can be identified as the primary points for embarkation and disembarkation. Logistics planners would readily tell you that this is not a surprise; such imbalances are a reality in the cargo industry.

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Podcast: Rob O’Byrne on Digital Transformation, Sustainability, and Diversification in Sourcing

Requis

It won’t be enough to say, “this is fair trade coffee from Kenya”, people are going to want to see information going a few levels back from that, that the inputs are sustainable as well. There’s another angle as well, in which you’re alleviating the need to pull as many new resources out of the ground.