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The Green Corridor: Resilience from Diversification

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

I recently came back from vacation in Malawi a land-locked country of 19 million that surrounds Lake Malawi. Like many countries today, Malawi struggles to provide basic services to a large number of its people. Where Malawi sits 13 degrees south of the equator, Thailand sits 15 degrees north.

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Chapman Freeborn South Africa flies 10 cars to Malawi for the SADC Summit

Logistics Middle East

The post Chapman Freeborn South Africa flies 10 cars to Malawi for the SADC Summit appeared first on Logistics Middle East. The SADC Summit is an important event during which the Southern African Development Community gather to discuss the policy direction of the 16 member states.

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Fixing supply chain inefficiencies: what we did and why it’s hard

Provenance

What we found was a way to take all those financial inefficiencies and pass that money on to the first-mile (in this case, small-scale tea farmers in Malawi). Provenance worked on this groundbreaking solution to redesign the way money flows for Unilever’s tea farmers in Malawi. A bit more about the project.

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5 lessons from leading a blockchain social innovation project

Provenance

There was a really diverse group of members in the project – from Cambridge University to banks, such as Barclay’s, as well as corporates.

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5 tips and tools for collaborative working while remote

Provenance

On one project we brought together stakeholders from Singapore, Malawi, the West Indies, the Netherlands and London. “Global supply chains provide a challenging environment for coordinating meetings, often involving participation from multiple businesses across continents and timezones.

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Sustainable Forestry: Can We Get It Right?

EcoVadis

In Malawi, deforestation for human settlement and agricultural land has triggered soil erosion with direct impact on lake Malawi’s fish supply, which showed a 90 percent decline over the last 20 years. It is estimated that about 12 percent of global anthropogenic CO2 emissions are generated from deforestation and forest degradation.

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4 Technology Trends Set to Transform Your eCommerce Business

Vinculum

Apart from Ghana, many countries like China, Chile, Australia, Estonia, Malawi, Italy, Ireland, Singapore, South Korea, UK, and US are adapting this tech-trend to deal with the pandemic situation. Ghana becomes the first country in the world to deploy drone technology for COVID-19 tests, medical kits and medicine delivery.