Season of Light 2023-2024

Welcome to CENFACS’ Online Diary!

20 December 2023

 

Post No. 331

 

 

The Week’s Contents

 

• Season of Light 2023-2024

• Festive Giving, Gifting and Lifting

• Community Value Chains, the CENFACS Community

 

… And much more!

 

 

• Year-end 2023 Thank You Message

 

As the year 2023 wraps up, CENFACS would like to take a moment and expresses its gratitude to all its supporters and every one of you for your dedication and commitment to our noble cause of poverty reduction.

Thank you to all of you who produced poverty reduction with us and who made poverty reduction possible for those who needed it and for us in 2023.

 

 

 

Key Messages

 

• Season of Light 2023-2024

 

On 22 December 2023, we shall move from Autumn Fresh Start to the Season of Light.  As a result, Autumn Fresh Start projects and programmes including campaign will end to signal the start of the Season of Light within CENFACS. 

 

• • End of the Autumn Fresh Start Season and Campaign

 

The Autumn Season will officially end on 22 December 2023.  The momentum we have built from the beginning and throughout Autumn Fresh Start Season continues to galvanise our poverty relief action and is taking our relief journey into the Season of Light, which starts the 21st of December 2023.

 

• • Start of the Season of Light within CENFACS

 

The Season of Light, which usually starts the 21st of December of each year and ends around 21 March in the New Year, runs through the Festive Season, which is between 01 December of the ending year (here 2023) and 31 January in the New Year (2024).  The Gifts of Peace, which keep on giving, normally feature the Festive Season.

During the Season of Light, we light up a Blaze of Hope for people and communities suffering from the effects and impacts of destructive wars and natural disasters in Africa.

In the coming weeks and months of the Season of Light, our Blaze of Hope will be extended to those who are continuing to suffer from the lingering effects of other crises (such as the cost-of-living, hunger and security crises).

The Season of Light will come with the Lights Appeal or Campaign, which is a set of poverty reduction projects that features the Season of Light.  

 

• • Two Themes, Two Seasons and Two Gifts

 

The theme for the Season of Light is Hope which we try to bring through a Blaze, while the theme for the Festive Season’s Reliefs is Peace.  During the Festive Season, we try to reduce poverty as a lack of peace via the Gifts of Peace; whereas in the context of the Season of Light we work through Lights Appeals/Gifts to relieve poverty as a lack of hope.  Those who feel themselves hopeless need some hope.  They need some belief to attain the wish or desire of poverty reduction, to persist, to build trust in resources and to share hopes.

Under the Main Development section of this post, there is more information about the Season of Light 2023/2024.

 

 

• Festive Giving, Gifting and Lifting

 

As part of the season of giving and gifting as well as of lifting poor and vulnerable people out of poverty, we are asking supporters to go extra miles in replying to these two fundraising appeals which are: Festive Gift Set and End-of-year Support.

 

 

• • Festive Gift Set

 

The remaining eleven days of this year starting from today are those of the last legacy of the Year 2023 as the ‘Influence’ Year at CENFACS.

To mark the end of our ‘Influence’ Year and Campaign, we are appealing to you to support CENFACS’ year 2023 through a ‘Influence’ (‘i’) Gift or Year 2023 Gift.

Such a gift will help to undertake four changes as follows:

 

a) Change in attitude which will allow to draw attention, affect awareness, attitudes and perceptions of the poor (a gift of attitudinal change)

b) Change in procedure in way poor people decide their matters (a gift of procedural change)

c) Change of behaviour in poor people (a gift of behavioural change)

d) Change of policy content through the influencing activities such as lobbying, negotiation, advocacy; content that affects the poor (a gift of policy content change).

 

 

With the ‘Influence’ Gift plus the Gift of Light plus the Gift of Peace; the three of them give you a Gift Set of £5 or more.  What do these gifts express?

 

 

 

• • • Expressions from the three gifts (of Influence, Light and Peace)

 

• • • • The Influence Gift represents the 12 Influence Project Episodes of the Year of Positive Influence to Reduce Poverty within CENFACS.  It is a gift of positive influence that would better help and work with poor people so that they can navigate their way to poverty reduction.

 

• • • • The Gift of Light symbolises hope for the victims of multiple crises (i.e., the cost-of-living crisis, wars and natural disasters).  It is also a donation programme that uses practical and meaningful means to meet the unique needs of transitioning from darkness to brightness, to guide or show way of reducing poverty.

 

• • • • The Gifts of Peace create long lasting relationships in a world without conflicts between humans as well as between humans and the nature (other living beings and things).  At this time of the lingering effects of polycrises, the Gifts of Peace will enable to re-conquer the lost peace and get new form of peace from poverty induced by these effects.  This is without forgetting the lack of peace brought by climate change events.

 

All these initiatives represent some great ways of helping to reduce poverty at this special time of the year.  They give more opportunities to supporters to do something different for those in need.

By donating £5 or more for this Gift Set, you will help people in need to leave poverty and hardships behind them and may be for ever.

To donate and or enquire about this Gift Set, just contact CENFACS with or without your donation.

 

 

• • End-of-year Support and Appeal

 

As 2023 is coming to an end, we would like to ask you to donate as a legacy towards CENFACS’ efforts to help reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development.

You can donate to support CENFACS’ anti-poverty mission and to help reduce poverty and hardships this festive season and in the New Year.

Your support can make helpful differences to CENFACS and to those in need, the people and communities that CENFACS serves.

 

• • • Two ways of responding to this appeal

 

1) Make a One-off Festive Donation of £5 or more this festive time…

as a way of helping poor people via CENFACS and / or support CENFACS’ work on poverty relief and sustainable development.

You can also support one of the CENFACS projects and programmes if you wish.

 

2) Make a Monthly Donation of £5 or £10 or £15 or more per month…

as a legacy for CENFACS’ work.

Please make a year-end contribution today to help us continue to deliver the work of CENFACS in 2023 and beyond.

This Year-end Support is an inclusive relief sending a never-ending message from the giver that they are part of what we have achieved in 2023 and will do in the coming years.

To make a donation and or enquire about this End-of-year Ask or Support, just contact CENFACS with or without your donation.

 

 

• Community Value Chains, the CENFACS Community

 

CENFACS as a Community of Influential People, which is the Closing Act of the 2023 Year, is being prepared and trended.

 

• • What is CENFACS’ Community Value Chains (CVC)?

 

1) It is a community value control, inspirational and motivational project of year-end celebration introduced by CENFACS in 2009.  The project is based on a basic idea of development which is as follows:

“What a member of our community best does which well works for them can have an underlying good value.  If there is a good value, it is desirable to share such value so that other members of our community could be aware of it and build a sort of chains of beliefs and community spirit/principles within our support network”.

2) It is all about improving lives and outcomes of community members as well as enlivening capacities by sharing good practices, values, achievements and hopes about shared goals for the future; while learning from past mistakes.

In doing so, we can pull together as one community, strengthen our links and bonds, learn our differences and harness transformative changes we all want amongst us and beyond our self-interests.

3) It is finally about sharing and celebrating our impact as a community.

 

To sum up, CENFACS CVC or the CENFACS Community is our voluntary local and non-profit making arm inside which all our projects and activities carried out in the UK are grouped and delivered; the other two domains being CENFACS International and CENFACS Fund for Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development.

 

• • What Are Those Shared Values?

 

Good practices and good values do not need to be big or exceptional or even spectacular.  They are the simple good little things we do every day, which may have worked for us and could work for others as well.  These good little things could have a bigger impact on us as a community.

They could be life and work learning experiences, lifestyles, helpful differences, social responsibilities and principles that underpin them.  At this time of the cost-of-living crisis, they could be all the little initiatives one has taken to care each other in order to have access to economic means of copying and survival.

 

• • Sharing and Celebrating Our Impact via CVC 2023

 

CENFACS as a Community of Influential People (or the Closing Act of the Influential Year) will feature our year-end campaign.

This celebratory theme for CVC’s 14th Celebration of CENFACS as a Community is and will be the Closing Act of the Influence Year and Project.  However, this celebration will be a low key one since many of supporters and users have been affected by the cost-of-living crisis.  Instead, we shall call it end-of-year sharing, sharing of our hopes about shared goals for a better future.

 

• • The 14th Celebration of CENFACS Community as Way of Looking both Back and Forward

 

• • • Looking back on 2023

 

It will be about

 

~ the use of a positive influence to mobilise support and resources towards the meeting of the community needs.

~ the work carried out with the members of our community and Africa-based Sister Organisations via influencing skills, styles and models to help reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development

~ how we approached crises and challenging situations to get the best outcomes for poverty reduction via influencing skills, styles and models

~ how we used the fundamental principles of influencing others, especially those in the position of power, to better change things so that poverty reduction could be achieved for those who needed it.

 

• • • Looking forward to 2024

 

It revolves around

 

~ making use of the findings from what we did not know and we now know about the needs and aspirations of the people in need making our community to build a better community

~ planning appropriate responses or new ways of working together with project beneficiaries in 2024 to meet unmet needs and demands (For instance, planning projects of just, orderly and equitable energy transition as well as fossil-free projects).

In this respect, looking forward will be about thinking of the direction and shape that the evolution of the community needs may take in 2024 and how we can effectively and efficiently work with our members in 2024 in terms of improved course of action in the New Year.

 

Briefly, the 14th Celebration of CENFACS Community will be a hybrid sharing of our positive influence and knowledge on how the 2023 went on in everybody’s life in terms of the positive takeaways from it in order to build forward in 2024.  In this hybrid sharing, the positive experience from the cost-of-living crisis will be welcome.

We want our community ends 2023 on a positive note or sharing despite the ups and downs of this year, especially with the disturbance that the high cost of living has caused and is continuing to cause on many of us.  We would like as well our community to start 2024 with hope and positive belief.

 

• • Share, Spread & Tweet the Message

 

To enable us to build value chains with you and others and to keep our support network alive and networked CENFACS, please spread the message to/pass it on around you.

If you feel that you need first to talk to us before responding to this invitation of end-of-year celebration/sharing, please let us know.

If you prefer to respond via e-mail, you are free to do so at facs@cenfacs.org.uk.

Whichever way or means you choose to enter this year-end sharing project, please reply by the 23rd of December 2023 so as to ease the end-of-year 2023 celebration/sharing and the start-of-year 2024 preparatory activities, projects and programmes.

For further details about this Closing Act of the Influence Year and Project as a i Year, please contact CENFACS.

For the timeline of the themes that made the Community Value Chains so far, please also contact CENFACS. 

As part of the closure of 2023 and preparation for 2024, we are as well doing an inventory of skills and are registering the talents and skills of the CENFACS Community.

If you have not yet registered your skills to CENFACS’ Skills Data Bank, this is the opportunity to do it over this festive period.  Your skills registration will be essential to ensure that all the skills and skilled people making our community are included in any future plans to improve our community support.

To register or add your skills to the CENFACS Community’s Skills Register or Database, just contact CENFACS.

 

 

Extra Messages

 

• Income Generation Leads/Advice: Income Generators, Creators and Curators of the Month

• All Year Round Projects (or Triple Value Initiatives): 2023 Verdict

• Festive Structured Finance Activities or Micro-projects as Part of Financial Capacity and Capability Building Programme, and Impact Monitoring and Evaluation of Matching Organisation-Investor Programme

 

 

 

• Income Generation Leads/Advice: Income Generators, Creators and Curators of the Month

 

Our advisory service on leads to income generation is still on.  Through this festive advice service, we are looking at and reviewing income generation plans or strategies for who need a review.  We are also trying to explore the different leads or avenues that those in need can use, depending on their personal circumstances; to find the appropriate means to generate little extra income.

In this income generation to reduce poverty, we are as well trying to enlist those who could be named as Income Generation Models or Income Generators, Creators  and Curators of the Season.  We are looking at their models or ways of generating little extra income.  We are assessing whether or not their models of generating income are generalizable or duplicatable or just are exceptions to the general rule and to the CENFACS Community.

If anyone has managed to generate little extra income and finds that their way of doing it has an underlying good value that can be shared with the CENFACS CVC members, please do not hesitate to talk to CENFACS.

 

 

• All Year Round Projects (or Triple Value Initiatives): 2023 Verdict

 

The week is finally an occasion to remind the need to report on All-year Round Projects (or Triple Value Initiatives) which are:  Play, Run and Vote projects for poverty relief and sustainable development.

As we are nearing the end of year 2023, it is now the time to report on our three All-year Round Projects – which are PlayRun and Vote.

We know that this year has been economically challenging for some of you to run some types of activities.  However, for those who have managed to undertake and complete the above named projects, we would like them to share with us and others their experiences, stories and reports regarding these projects.

 

• • The Action-Results of 2023: Tell it!

 

You can feedback the outcomes or Action-Results of your…

 

… Run if you ran for poverty relief over the year 2023 (or organised a Run activity)

… Play if you played the CENFACS League for Poverty Relief

… Vote if you have already voted your 2023 African Poverty Relief and Development Manager.

 

We would be more than happier to hear your Action and Results to feature and conclude CENFACS 2023 Year as Year of Influence.  Tell it!

 

• • What or Who We Want to Hear

 

We would like to hear from you about the Winner of CENFACS Virtual Trophy of the Year, that is one of the following Three Stars or Bests of the Year:

 

√ The Best African Country of 2023 which best reduced poverty

√ The Best African Global Games Runner of 2023

√ The Best African Poverty Relief and International Development Manager of 2023.

 

If you have not yet told us, have your say by 23 December 2023.  The Verdict is yours.

 

 

• Festive Structured Finance Activities or Micro-projects as Part of Financial Capacity and Capability Building Programme, and Impact Monitoring and Evaluation of Matching Organisation-Investor Programme

 

During this month, we have been run the above-mentioned programmes.

Regarding Festive Structured Finance Activities or Micro-projects as part of Financial Capacity and Capability Building Programme, they are closed and will be re-run in the New Year.

Concerning Matching Organisation-Investment Programme, we are now conducting Impact Monitoring and Evaluation (IME) after the last episode.  This IME is on matching maths and statistics for both Africa-based Sister Organisation and Not-for-profit Investor.  Those who may be interested in this IME, they can let CENFACS know.

For those potential not-for-profit investors who still need some guidance for impact to find investee organisation and Africa-based Sister Charitable Organisation looking for an investor, they can contact CENFACS to book an appointment for a match/fit test in the New Year.

Equally, for those households who still need support regarding their financial capacity and capability building problems, they can also communicate CENFACS with their queries or enquiries to book an appointment in/for the New Year.

 

 

Message in French (Message en français)

 

• Remerciement de fin d’année 2023

Alors que l’année 2023 touche à sa fin, le CENFACS souhaite prendre un moment pour exprimer sa gratitude à tous/toutes ses sympathisant(e)s et à chacun(e) d’entre vous pour votre dévouement et votre engagement envers notre noble cause de réduction de la pauvreté.

Merci à tous (toutes) ceux (celles) d’entre vous qui ont produit la réduction de la pauvreté avec nous et qui ont rendu la réduction de la pauvreté possible pour ceux ou celles qui en avaient besoin et pour nous en 2023.

 

Main Development

 

Season of Light 2023-2024

 

The Lights Season at CENFACS kicks off with the theme of Hope as said above.  We are going to deliver this Hope with projects and programmes adapted to the context of crises like the cost-of-living crisis.  We are going to add to them projects of just, orderly and equitable energy transitions as well as fossil-free projectsHope will also be provided by other initiatives with Nature-positive Goals and Nature-based Solutions to Poverty.

Indeed, many observers and planners believe that the context of the cost-of-living crisis will be over when price trajectories stabilise and wages have risen enough money to match.

For instance, according to the Resolution Foundation’s annual Living Standards Outlook for 2023 (1),

“The cost-of-living crisis should ease in 2024.  But it won’t fully be over until wages catch up for all households”.

To cultivate and nurture hope in this type of context, one needs to develop positive feelings, experiences and emotions.

The following items make the contents of our Season of Light 2023-2024:

 

∝ What will shape the Season of Light?

∝ Two themes to bear in mind this Festive and Lights Time: Peace and Hope

∝ The Gift of Light that Keeps on Giving this Winter

 

Let us look at these contents.

 

• • What Will Shape the Season of Light?

 

The 2023-2024 Season of Light will be about working on issues revolving around nature-positive and nature-based solutions to poverty.  It will also be about light (or energy) and energy transition and how this transition can help reduce poverty.  We will be dealing with energy transition since the global climate community has committed itself to transition away from fossil fuels at the end of COP28 (2).  This means we shall develop projects of just, orderly and equitable transition as well as fossil-free projects.

The 2023-2024 Season of Light will be the case of harnessing transformational and structural changes in the context of increasing uncertainty and climate change so that those who are living in poverty can find the means, paces and spaces they need to navigate out of it.

The 2023-2024 Season of Light will revolve around our preparedness after the last cost of living payment that goes to the poorest people (or eligible households and those claiming eligible benefits) around the country (in the UK) to help them during the cost-of-living crisis will be given in February 2024, and if the energy price cap goes up in January 2024.

The 2023-2024 Season of Light is finally an energy transitional period to work with those living in poverty so that they transition away from fossil fuels, from polluting to clean and green energy and technology.  We started this process few years ago.  To achieve or continue this energy transition to carbon net zero or free-fossil world, it requires Hope and support.

Besides that there are two developments that will shape our 2023-2024 Season of Light, developments which are Global Nature Goals which we started to work on them since January 2023, and the match between the incomes rise and prices stability which will signalise the possible end of the cost-of-living crisis.  In the light of these developments, CENFACS will continue the work Global Nature Goals in 2024 with a new generation or set of new nature projects and projects to manage the above-mentioned match if it happens.  Details of these projects will be unveiled in the New Year.

So, we will be developing projects and programmes of just, orderly and equitable energy transition as well as fossil-free projects and programmes.   These projects and programmes with nature-positive and fossil-free contents will be carried out while we are  continuing to work on global nature goals and nature-based solutions to poverty; that is nature-based projects to help reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development.  Besides that, we shall carry on with the financial empowerment programme of our users to reduce financial poverty and mitigate the lingering effects of previous and current crises with some of the initiatives (like Financial Capacity and Capability Campaign).

 

 

• • Two Themes to Bear in Mind This Festive and Lights Time: Peace and Hope

 

The theme of Hope is the overall theme of the Season of Lights, while the theme of Peace will be dominant over the festive celebrations period.

 

• • • The theme of Hope

 

The theme of Hope is made of notes or pieces of nature-positive, energy transition and fossil free.  This Wintry season, we shall bring a glimmer of hope through nature-positive, nature goals, energy transition and fossil-free initiatives, while making sure that the poor people own the energy transition process.  Hope will help beneficiaries as follows:

 

~ to actively cope with everyday challenges and find the appropriate relief and comfort they need

~ to reframe negative situations or events in a positive portrait or mood

~ to cultivate positive engagements, experiences and emotions in life

~ to keep momentum towards a better future

~ to engage in a proactive behaviour.

 

• • • The theme of Peace

 

The Gifts of Peace are included in the Season of Light.  Peace is the festive theme we choose to spread the joy of Season’s Reliefs to those in need.   We try to help their wishes and dreams of poverty relief become true through the Gifts of Peace that put a smile on poor people’s faces and lips with relief notes while hoping they will rediscover freedom from disturbance and disorder caused by crises and other painful events of 2023.

 

 

 

• • The Gift of Light That Keeps on Giving This Winter

 

What is the Gift of Light?  It is as explained below.

 

• • • A gift of light for every person in need everywhere!

 

The Lights Season is the season during which we try to bring light or shine light to impoverished lives in the darkness.  We try to bring clarity, brightness to people who need to see clearly and accurately about their life.  It is about helping them see the light of relief so that they can see the world in a new relieved light or version.

 

• • • A gift of light that ignites and sparks the life of those in need!

 

This is why we have the Lights project at CENFACS; projects which enable us to bring lights to those in need and which identify the poverty reduction gaps in human systems and support those areas of these systems which do not receive support.  Like the last Winter, this Winter 2023-2024, our Lights projects will focus on two parts or two waves of action:

 

1) post-coronavirus, post-war and post-natural disaster developments

2) current and emerging armed conflicts and environmental catastrophes as well as new waves of threats.

 

However, in these developments and waves, we shall take into account the changing contexts in Africa where there could be scaling down or changing types of crises (for example, the return of military putsches in West Africa with their impacts on poverty reduction, threat to international trade due to the current conflict in the Middle East and its implications for poverty reduction in Africa).  To mention other crises where the work of poverty reduction could be needed, we can speak about hunger crisis and debt crisis which are still stubborn issues for many low income countries in Africa.

 

• • • A gift of light that helps people to navigate their own way out poverty with pride!

 

The Gift of Light is about helping people to help themselves.  By using the light, they can find their own way out poverty and hardships, out of darkness instead of CENFACS telling them what do.  They can act with self-esteem and self-respect.  In this respect, the Gift of Light is a blessing of empowerment.

 

• • • A Blaze of Hope for post-life following crises (e.g., the cost-of-living crisis), armed conflicts and natural disasters

 

When there are environmental disasters and armed conflicts, there are pledges and commitments to end the effects of wars and disasters.  For various reasons, some of these pledges do not always materialise.  The post-war and post-disaster developments are sometimes left without support even until the conflicts and disasters return and or strike again.

The same situation can happen if the pledges – made at the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), which took place in Dubai (op. cit.) to help poor nations to transition away from fossil fuels to avert the worst effects of climate change – do not materialise in concrete actions.

As we cannot wait the return or repeat of the same wars and disasters; our first Blaze of Hope will go this Winter to the unfinished business of previous destructions and disruptions brought by crises (e.g., the coronavirus and the cost-of-living crisis), wars and natural disasters.

 

• • • A Blaze of Hope for the eruption of any crises, armed conflicts and natural disasters

 

We always advocate for preventive development and we do not seek for destructive events to happen.  However, our preparedness and readiness should make us to assemble as quickly as possible advocacy tools should any effects and impacts erupt from new waves of crisis, wars and natural disasters in Africa.

So, our second wave of intervention or Blaze of Hope will go this Wintry season to erupted effects of unexpected crises, armed conflicts and natural disasters in the areas of our interest in Africa.

With these two waves of action over this Wintry Season, we hope to enlighten the lives of those in pressing and emergent need.

 

• • • Examples of areas where a Blaze of Hope may be needed

 

For this December 2023, we have initially selected or identified six areas of priority that may need lighting a Blaze of Hope, which are as follows:

 

a) Areas of countries severely affected by food insecurity or the socio-economic impacts of high food prices like in Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mauritania and Senegal

b) Areas of vulnerable countries hit by or prone to torrential rains and cyclones that could cause enormous food insecurity such as in Chad, Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo

c) Areas of countries devastated by other types of weather extremes (such as prolonged and severe drought, extreme temperature, etc.) like Burundi, Madagascar, Congo and countries of the Horn of Africa

d) Areas of countries that are the victims of a high level of persisting civil insecurity such as in in Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Mali

e) Areas of countries where innocent people are the victims of unfamiliar forms of civil insecurity (e.g. interpersonal violence, gang violence and insecurity due to the presence of private military company personnel) and forced displacement/refugee influx like in Congo, Mali and Burkina Faso

f) Areas of countries with neo-sovereignist or putschist States (in countries where there have been putsch like in Burkina Faso, Guinea, Niger and Mali).

 

The above selection is an initial one, which may change depending how and where humanitarian events will unfold in Africa.  The selection will help to start our Light advocacy and campaign.

The countries listed in this selection are also mentioned in the Crop Prospects and Food Situation of the Food and Agriculture Organisations of the United Nations (3).  None of the above-mentioned countries is experiencing a single issue.  Many of them can be subject to multiple issues.  For example, the Democratic Republic of Congo is experiencing conflict in its north-eastern provinces, torrential rains in other parts the country and high food prices.

Also, our priority areas can change depending on the events in Africa.  For example, if there is eruption of unpredicted or unplanned events (such as natural disasters, natural resource crises, environmental incidents, large scale involuntary migration, health crisis, international trade crisis, etc.), our Blaze of Hope will go to the victims of these erupted events.

For those who can support Light project, we can count on them to move forward this advocacy or campaign.  And we would like to thank them in advance.

For any queries or enquiries regarding the Season of Light, please do not hesitate to contact CENFACS.

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References

 

(1) https;//www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/will-prices-uk-ever-go-down-cost-of-living-crisis/ (accessed in December 2023)

(2) https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/cma2023_L17_adv.pdf (accessed in December 2023)

(3) FAO/GIEWS.2023.Crop Prospects and Food Situation – Triannual Global Report No.3, November 2023. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/cc8566en (accessed in December 2023)

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