Sentences with phrase «food shortages lead»

Growing population and declining food production could have a cascade effect: Food shortages lead to hunger, hunger leads to conflict, conflict leads to mass migration and political instability.

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Knight Frank's top boss has a solution to climate change leading to an inevitable global food shortage.

Whole Foods is facing a crush of food shortages in stores that's leading to empty shelves, furious customers, and frustrated employees.

«It would lead to inflation, price increases and in some cases shortages of food.»

Many Venezuelans have reportedly resorted to scavenging for food in the garbage, while the crisis has also led to shortages of everything from medicine to toilet paper.

Conflict leading to food shortages creates serious humanitarian crisis in Nigeria, Lake Chad area.

At least 8 million people and around 8,000 hectares of paddy have been affected, leading to food shortage and hiked rice prices over the past few months.

Increased global demand for imported breast milk substitutes (infant formula, follow - on formula and toddler milks) in Asia, particularly China, and food safety recalls have led to shortages of these products i...

The rise of tuberculosis (TB) in Zimbabwe during the socio - economic crisis of 2008 - 9 has been linked to widespread food shortage, according to a new study led by Canadian researchers from the University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health published in PLOS ONE.

«Zimbabwe may have been predisposed to this TB outbreak due to the presence of a large HIV - positive population who were particularly vulnerable to the effects of food shortages which led to malnutrition and further damage to already weakened immune systems,» said Silverman.

Added sea - level rise, shifts in precipitation, and jumps in local temperatures could lead to vast water and food shortages.

, says that the Russian heatwave led to a hoarding of food supplies and price - fixing by speculators, which compounded food shortages and led to global wheat prices rising dramatically.

So not only could the production of corn - based fuels lead to food shortages, experts say, but the process is too inefficient to make a significant dent in our energy needs anyway.

Engqvist: «In stressful times, like periods of food shortage, this process can even lead to population extinction, since the investment in competition exceeds the value of the resources.»

Some researchers have proposed that Toba's eruption was big enough to cause a reverse greenhouse effect that cooled Earth for decades, leading to ecological disaster and widespread food shortages that only a few small communities were able to survive.

In Indonesia there were major delays in the planting of the rice crop, leading to concerns over food shortages.

Research has shown that shortages or excesses of food during a person's childhood can cause epigenetic changes that lead to diabetes, obesity and early puberty.

Such extremes have led to millions facing food and water shortages, as well as thousands of deaths globally, pointing to the need to not only mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, but to also invest in adaptation and improving the forecast systems of developing countries, Taalas said in his forward to the report.

Their report suggested that water and food shortages, combinedwith violent weather events, could lead to massive upheavals andinstigate conflicts in every global region.

Since these countries face problems of childhood deaths and food shortages the idea of paying extra money for energy causes a lot of problems since it leads to a lot of things like fertilizer costing more.

Although we have projected results to 2050, this may be too far in the future to spur commercial R&D, but it must not be seen as too distant to discourage R&D in the public sector, given the long lead times that may be needed to avoid global food shortage.

Just last week, the World Bank reported that within the next generation that same warming atmosphere could lead to widespread water and food shortages, historic heat waves, prolonged droughts, and more intense flooding.

This guidance report shows that the success of the global response to AIDS can lead not only the encroaching virus itself but also the effects of climate change such as food and water shortages, growth in poverty and an increase in natural disasters.

These tipping points could be ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica melting permanently, global food shortages and widespread crop failures with more extreme weather, rising ocean temperatures and acidity reaching triggering a crash in global coral reef ecosystems, and warming oceans push the release of methane from the sea floor, which could lead to runaway climate change, etc..

Freak weather patterns will not only affect agricultural output and food security, but will also lead to water shortages and trigger outbreaks of water and mosquito - borne diseases such as diarrhea and malaria in many developing nations.

This can lead to desertification and food shortage.

In his concluding chapter, Snyder describes the Holocaust as an act of «ecological panic» -LSB-...] In the 21st century, he speculates, rapid and destructive climate change could lead to wholesale food shortages caused by desertification of huge areas of the planet, or alternatively drastic economic collapse and state bankruptcies.

Leading water scientists have issued one of the sternest warnings yet about global food supplies, saying that the world's population may have to switch almost completely to a vegetarian diet over the next 40 years to avoid catastrophic shortages.

While the cost of transport will go up climate change impacts + rising population seems likely to lead to food shortages so I wouldnt panic yet if you can hold out.

It's not that simple, though: The massive Tambora eruption of 1815 cooled the Earth so much that Europe suffered the «year without summer,» leading to extreme food shortages.

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In a world with limited grain stocks, a crop - shrinking heat wave in a major grain - producing region could lead to food shortages and political instability.

Regardless, dropping ethanol subsidies is probably a smart idea — corn ethanol is a huge water and energy suck, some speculate its production has led to food shortages, and is generally far from the fuel of the future it was once hoped to be.

«We know from studying earlier civilizations such as the Sumerians, Mayans, and many others,» says Brown, «that more often than not it was food shortages that led to their demise.

Truman called on Hoover — who'd been in political exile after leaving the White House in 1933 — to lead the work of alleviating post-war food shortages in Europe.