Additionally, GPFA supports entrepreneurs through training and seed capital in nursery, solar food drying and beekeeping ventures.

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There are reports of food shortages, hoarding and a drying up of investment.

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Or, as his Haitian patients aptly put it, medicine without food is like washing one's hands and drying them in the dirt.

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The drying and cooling of the Younger Dryas adversely affected the food supply of hunter-gatherers.

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