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Infographic: How Disasters Drive Hunger
Infographic: How Disasters Drive Hunger<br>Disasters drive hunger. More than 80 per cent of hungry people live in disaster-prone areas and in degraded environments that multiply the damage that disasters create. With natural disasters on the increase, helping communities reduce and manage the risks they face is fundamental. This infographic shows how disasters affect hunger and malnutrition, and how hunger and malnutrition increase disaster risk.
What Makes Summer Programs Work for Middle Schoolers?
In summer learning programs, social and emotional learning is a key way to support a student's individual needs, writes Tiffany Gueye.
Healthcare Supply Chain Trends
It's time to transform the healthcare supply chain. Compared with other markets (e.g. high-tech industry) change has been gradual in the medical device field.
Why Farm-to-Institution Sourcing is the Sleeping Giant of Local Food
Strategists are following the money to schools, corporate cafeterias, and hospitals in hopes of rebuilding local economies and bringing healthy food access—literally in through the back door.
Researcher investigates how to make the global food supply more resilient
As the world grows increasingly globalized, one of the ways that countries have come to rely on one another is through a more intricate and interconnected food supply chain. Food produced in one country is often consumed in another country—with technological advances allowing food to be shipped between countries that are increasingly distant from one another.
How to simplify your supply chain while still mitigating risk
So many factors can disrupt a medtech manufacturer's supply chain, sometimes with disastrous effects – geography, weather, management and quality control
Know Your Healthcare Supply Chain! |
The healthcare supply chain is driven by accurate, on-time and regulatory-compliant fulfillment.
Providers must act quickly to prevent supply chain losses
In one important way, your average stock portfolio is the same as the stock on hospital inventory shelves.
Is This Tax Deductible? My Child’s Summer Camp
Ah, good old summertime – what a wonderful relaxing time of the year. Unless you have kids, of course, in which case there’s a whirlwind of activity in your house as soon as school is out. But then…
F.D.A. gives guidance on preventing food supply attacks
The first of three installments cover assessing vulnerability and mitigation strategies.
How to build the medical device supply chain of the future
IoT sensors offer real-world tracking and data-driven answers to supply chain problems, according to Tive.
Six Years After Recession, Many Rural Families Still Rely on School Pantries
Outside cities, child hunger rates are higher and employment rates lag. That’s why school-based pantries are a popular way to feed families.
What Happens When a Crucial Supply Chain Fails?
A consortium, organized by Newlab, has turned MIT's E-Vent design into an automatic resuscitator that will be quickly mass produced at scale.
Poor supply chain practices plague hospital operating rooms
A Cardinal Health survey highlights the necessity for better inventory management systems.
Why The ‘Patient-Centered Supply Chain’ Is Critical To The Future Of Healthcare
By implementing patient-centered supply chains, US health organizations can effect much-needed improvements in their processes, procedures, and outcomes.
When Food Banks Say No To Sugary Junk, Schools Offer A Solution
Food banks are increasingly saying no to cakes, holiday candy and other junk food donations. But some schools are sending them healthier donations by salvaging uneaten foods in their cafeterias.
Three Tips Toward Smarter Healthcare Supply Chain Management
Technology is radically transforming supply chain management in healthcare, increasing opportunities to improve optimization and the flow of goods among manufacturers, purchasers, and providers. Learn how healthcare supply chain leaders can prepare.
How Your Food Drive Donations Become Someone’s Dinner
From donation box to dinner plate, see how your generosity reaches those in need.
Beach Bags food drive was a success, bringing in more than six tons of food
More than 93,000 beach bags have been distributed since the program launched.
After School Activities/Practices
Due to the extreme heat, all elementary and middle school outdoor activities and practices are cance
