Sentences with phrase «marine food resources»

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Huge dams are affecting water cycle and bio-regions, pursseine trawlers are affecting marine food chains, both are destroying livelihood of people based on community control of resources.

The study grew out of work the authors undertook in the Pacific, where scientists met with community members and local, regional, and national government experts to examine issues such as food security, access to fresh water, quality education, sustainable tourism, and protection of marine and terrestrial resources.

The «Algae for a Healthy World» (A4HW) project has a budget of one million euros for a term of two years, and is co-financed by the European Union via the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) within the «Cooperation Challenges» programme by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (specifically, the «Food Safety and Quality Challenge: Productive, Sustainable Farming, Natural Resources, Marine and Maritime Research»).

This puts enormous pressure on local marine resources that are central to local communities» culture, food security and livelihoods.»

«Conversely, increases in cephalopod populations could benefit marine predators which are reliant on them for food, as well as human communities reliant on them as a fisheries resource.»

Rising CO2 emissions, and the increasing acidity of seawater over the next century, has the potential to devastate some marine ecosystems, a food resource on which we rely, and so careful monitoring of changes in ocean acidity is crucial.

Even sperm whales in deep waters offshore, where the delta's abundance concentrates food resources for these marine giants, depend on a healthy delta.

Abstract: Diverse and abundant, marine invertebrates have essential roles in ocean ecosystems and provide vital food and export resources for millions of people around the world through small - scale artisanal to large - scale commercial fisheries.

Marine mammals were first hunted by aboriginal peoples for food and other resources.

Some of the earliest evidence for human use of marine resources, coming from Middle Stone Age sites in South Africa, includes the harvesting of foods such as abalones, limpets, and mussels associated with kelp forest habitats.

As European colonists began to settle along the coast, introducing new economic enterprises, exploiting the marine resources, and establishing Catholic missions, the native food sources were depleted, native economies were altered, and island populations declined even further.

Acidification and climate change will put further pressure on living marine resources, such as fisheries and coral reefs that we depend upon for food, tourism and other economic and aesthetic benefits.

The freight sector — which includes trucks, trains, marine vessels, airplanes, and other modes — provides a vital service delivering foods, goods, and resources.

Key regional user specific workshops including Agriculture and Food Security, Water Resources, Energy, Health, Marine and Oceanography, Media, Conflict Early Warning and Response Mechanism (CEWARN) and Disaster Risk Management will be organized during the forum.

This will also help ensure the sustainable management of the significant marine resources in the area that support jobs, livelihoods and food security.

With cultural differences between the three communities and important marine resources growing more and more scarce, early community meetings were contentious, but eventually even those that opposed earlier conservation efforts came to realize that if they lost the hawksbill, they would lose everything that was important to them including their food, income and culture.

The indigenous communities that have customary rights to the Arnavons have relied on their marine resources for millennium, fishing and hunting the surrounding tropical waters that provide food for their families.