Sentences with phrase «food scarcity by»

From feeding the 5000 with waste food to growing produce on a supermarket roof, we've already seen plenty of projects that are taking on the notion of food scarcity by reveling in abundance and possibility.

In their letter accompanying the book they wrote, «The enclosed book, Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity by Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute, contains the best analysis of what Chuck Sloan inherently knew.

Adapted from Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity by Lester R. Brown (New York: W.W. Norton & Co.).

From Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity by Lester R. Brown (New York: W.W. Norton & Co.).

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Not only that, but we subsidize consumption, through food stamps and subsidies to farmers, thereby repealing scarcity by making true prices irrelevant.

This program has been championed by Founder and Majority Shareholder Peter Haycraft and is considered to be a great investment, given the high cost of real estate, the prime location and the scarcity of real estate suitable for the food industry.

Because of the necessity of removing the corpses of ruminants from farming, «vultures have been faced with a scarcity of food, which has caused them to make changes in their diet by consuming a higher quantity of hunting species,» the researcher explains.

The study authors suggest that this positive feedback loop may have served an important role in evolution, by prompting animals to fatten up when they stumbled across calorically dense food in times of food scarcity.

Estimates show that by 2050 the world population will be more than 9 billion and this growth will occur primarily in areas of the world already experiencing food scarcity and water availability issues, as Steven Leath, plant scientist and president of Iowa State University, noted in a lecture last year at AAAS.

Ketone esters are small organic chemicals that provide energy for the heart, brain and skeletal muscle in a highly efficient way, but are typically produced by the body only during periods of food scarcity and are not naturally present in typical modern diets.

The study refutes the notion that climate change will increase the frequency of civil war in Africa as a result of food scarcity triggered by rising temperatures and drought.

«Climate - induced food scarcity is going to become an increasingly big issue and we wanted to understand which countries are most threatened by it,» he said.

«There's not a lot of information on cannibalism in the animal kingdom, and it is mainly thought to be driven by food scarcity,» says Meek.

The United Nations recently projected that up to one quarter of global food production could be lost by 2050 due to the combined impact of climate change, land degradation, and water scarcity.

Unsurprisingly, metabolic hormones are strongly influenced by food intake: in the face of apparent scarcity, things down - regulate, and in the face of abundance, things up - regulate and restore.

The research team suggests this mechanism may have played a role in evolution by stimulating animals to fatten up in times of food scarcity.

You do not need supplemenys IF you go into ketosis the way you are supposed to: because of food scarcity or by calories scarcity.

By 2025 water scarcity will cut global food production by more than the current U.S. grain harvesBy 2025 water scarcity will cut global food production by more than the current U.S. grain harvesby more than the current U.S. grain harvest.

Extra strength used to escape or fend off intruders, being chased by dogs or children or even scarcity of food and habitat can derail a bird's migration and nesting.

By 2025, droughts, food shortages and scarcity of fresh water will plague large swaths of the globe, from northern China to the Horn of Africa.

But this report struck out on relatively new ground by drawing a clear line connecting climate change to food scarcity, and conflict.

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Curated by Marije Vogelzang, a designer who leads the food design department at Design Academy Eindhoven, the exhibition offers an insight into how food will be grown, processed, transport, and eaten in the future, and how farming systems could change as a result of food scarcity and new technologies.

Food shortages could force world into vegetarianism, warn scientists Water scarcity's effect on food production means radical steps will be needed to feed population expected to reach 9bn by 2050 John Vidal, environment editor The Guardian, Sunday 26 August 2012 19.00Food shortages could force world into vegetarianism, warn scientists Water scarcity's effect on food production means radical steps will be needed to feed population expected to reach 9bn by 2050 John Vidal, environment editor The Guardian, Sunday 26 August 2012 19.00food production means radical steps will be needed to feed population expected to reach 9bn by 2050 John Vidal, environment editor The Guardian, Sunday 26 August 2012 19.00 BST

/ Africa Famine - is a widespread scarcity of food, caused by crop failure, overpopulation, or government policies.

These recommendations will attempt to improve food production by overcoming obstacles such as harsh climates, increasing populations and the scarcity of resources.

Even being overweight or physically inactive in regions where we typically understand life to be characterised by scarcity of food, and hard physical labour are each bigger problems than climate change.

For more information, see «Meat Consumption in China Now Double That in the United States,» by Janet Larsen, and the latest book from Earth Policy Institute, Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity, by Lester R. Brown.

Such moves by China exemplify the new geopolitics of food scarcity that affects us all.

What will the geopolitics of food look like in a new era dominated by scarcity and food nationalism?

«The world is entering a new food era, one marked by rising food prices, growing numbers of hungry people, and an emerging politics of food scarcity.

With food scarcity driven by falling water tables, eroding soils, and rising temperatures, control of arable land and water resources is moving to center stage in the global struggle for food security.

But by agreement and complete social faith and due to the natural or artificial scarcity of the assets, we exchange these assets for food, shelter and other true necessities.