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The Future of Food Security

Enterra Insights

The WWF developed these levers by studying food systems in four different countries: Brazil, Colombia, Kenya, and UAE. Finance school food and public procurement programs. Provide financial incentives and taxes to improve consumption.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

In the professional women’s division, Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya and Ababel Yeshaneh of Ethiopia dropped the majority of the pack during a record-setting 11-mile stretch from mile 6-16. And what a race it was.

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E-Commerce Takes Off in Developing Countries

Elementum

Smartphone use in countries like India and Kenya is growing rapidly as companies like Xiaomi offer more affordable models aimed at users in developing countries. Investors and research groups are optimistic about countries like Nigeria and Kenya, whose burgeoning middle classes have the capital to spend on foreign-made goods.

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

BlueYonder

The trade imbalance this causes is an interesting case study for the economists no doubt, but what about the transportation and logistics that will be needed to sustain this trade over the coming years? Any impartial observer will agree that the logistics infrastructure needed to capitalize on this increased trade does not exist.

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In the crosshairs: Real-time logistics visibility

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

And this despite the same study concluding that digitization of supply chains could increase EBITDA by 3.2%, the highest of those same five business areas. He also served as Director, Strategy and Business Development for Family Services at UBS Wealth Management, and led a UN financed market entry and financing program in Kenya.

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

Requis

Foolishly, the army decided to send me to Cranfield University in the UK to study for a masters’ in logistics, and that just opened up a whole new world. 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.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 6-10, 2017)

Talking Logistics

FMCSA confirms permanent ‘restart rollback’ based on study results (CCJ). The international shipment of flowers to Royal FloraHolland from Kenya, Mandarin oranges from California, and pineapples from Colombia were also used to validate the solution for shipments coming into the Port of Rotterdam. WSJ – sub.