Sentences with phrase «more on food security»

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Food security is also recognized as being more than just providing people with enough calories to live on, but ensuring people have enough nutrients for optimal health too.

This was my first real introduction to the effects of policy around food security; I found it extremely interesting and will endeavour to learn more on the subject.

In conclusion, the conference was very informative and I was able to gain more knowledge on food security issues in some developing countries and the role that international agriculture research plays in developing a food secure world.

LOS BAÑOS, PHILIPPINES and EVANSTON, IL - December 13, 2016 — The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and 2Blades Foundation (2Blades) have signed an agreement to further the cause of global food and nutrition security for the 3.5 billion people who depend on rice for more than 20 % of their daily calories.

For more information on the interactive Global Food Security Index, including definitions of the 28 global indicators, impact of changing food prices, multi-country comparisons and more, visit: http://foodsecurityindex.eiu.com/. Or, download the fact sheet on the Global Food Security InFood Security Index, including definitions of the 28 global indicators, impact of changing food prices, multi-country comparisons and more, visit: http://foodsecurityindex.eiu.com/. Or, download the fact sheet on the Global Food Security Infood prices, multi-country comparisons and more, visit: http://foodsecurityindex.eiu.com/. Or, download the fact sheet on the Global Food Security InFood Security Index.

In 2014, the 1st International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition provided an opportunity to share experiences and build the evidence base on agroecology, as well as reaching a consensus on the priorities for achieving more sustainable food systems through agroecolFood Security and Nutrition provided an opportunity to share experiences and build the evidence base on agroecology, as well as reaching a consensus on the priorities for achieving more sustainable food systems through agroecolfood systems through agroecology.

By approaching global food security from different directions, with equal emphasis on reducing waste, improving supply and working with consumers and governments to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production, we can truly make a systemic difference.

«In terms of the food security of the first food, the global breastfeeding movement continues to call for greater vigilance around the more aggressive marketing of baby and toddler foods, using new promotional avenues on the internet, especially social networking, via mothers» clubs, educational foundations targeting students, and as business interest NGOs etc..

«I believe strongly that the test case of what we are trying to do about food security in Lagos State is just more or less like an elixir for what it should be across the western region and on that note, we want to say that we have already acquired land in Ogun and Oyo States but what is imperative for us to move forward now is that we would integrate all other Southwestern States into the food security mechanism of demand and supply for us to move forward,» he said.

The petition, which is the first organized by individual scientists in support of GM technology, yielded more than 1,400 signatures from plant science experts supporting the American Society of Plant Biologists» (ASPB) position statement on genetically modified (GM) crops, which states that they are «an effective tool for advancing food security and reducing the negative environmental impacts of agriculture.»

The evidence supports the need for considerable investment in adaptation and mitigation actions toward a «climate - smart food system» that is more resilient to climate change influences on food security.

The novel analysis of FDA's 2002 - 2007 data on food import violations suggests that «the size of a country's economy appears to be a more important determinant of food safety than its wealth,» or GDP per capita, according to the study, «Import Security: Assessing the Risks of Imported Food.&rafood import violations suggests that «the size of a country's economy appears to be a more important determinant of food safety than its wealth,» or GDP per capita, according to the study, «Import Security: Assessing the Risks of Imported Food.&rafood safety than its wealth,» or GDP per capita, according to the study, «Import Security: Assessing the Risks of Imported Food.&raFood.»

The study assesses the food supply available to more than 140 nations (with populations greater than 1 million) and demonstrates that food security is becoming increasingly susceptible to perturbations in demographic growth, as humanity places increasing pressure on use of limited land and water resources.

Agroforestry is one of the most common land use systems across landscapes and agroecological zones in Africa but need much more adoption in order to increase the impact on food security.

Land use related negative emission technologies (LUNETs)-- their implications on food security and relevant SDGs - More

It coordinates some of the world's most exciting research projects, tackling major issues such as climate change, food security, environmental influences on human health, the genetic make - up of life on earth, and much more.

«Food insecurity and the hunger crisis was much more widespread and posed a serious threat to national security and the economy,» says Matt Sharp, senior advocate for the California Food Policy Advocates, a public policy organization focused on antipoverty initiatives.

This pages recaps the impacts of climate change on water, food and energy security through a supported mind map activity before looking in more depth through an IPCC infographic card sort question and jigsaw activity.

From Social Security and Medicare, to food stamps and SNAP, consumers are more dependent on government programs than ever before.

During a panel discussion with senior global leaders at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Symposium «Advancing Food and Nutrition Security at the G8 Summit» in Washington, Jeff Simmons urged leaders to take action now to address the challenge of developing more efficient food production systems and pressed for policy alternatives that provide long - term, sustainable solutions to hunger, food inflation and food availabilFood and Nutrition Security at the G8 Summit» in Washington, Jeff Simmons urged leaders to take action now to address the challenge of developing more efficient food production systems and pressed for policy alternatives that provide long - term, sustainable solutions to hunger, food inflation and food availabilfood production systems and pressed for policy alternatives that provide long - term, sustainable solutions to hunger, food inflation and food availabilfood inflation and food availabilfood availability.

«U.S. farmers are managing fertilizer more efficiently now,» said the co-author Rosamond Naylor, director of Stanford's Program on Food Security and the Environment.

That determination was made by consulting firm Maplecroft in their Food Security Index 2010 based on 12 criteria developed in cooperation with the World Food Programme: Nutritional and health status of populations, grain production and imports, GDP per capita, natural disasters, conflict, and effectiveness of government, and more.

Global climate change risks are high to very high with global mean temperature increase of 4 °C or more above preindustrial levels in all reasons for concern (Assessment Box SPM.1), and include severe and widespread impacts on unique and threatened systems, substantial species extinction, large risks to global and regional food security, and the combination of high temperature and humidity compromising normal human activities, including growing food or working outdoors in some areas for parts of the year (high confidence).

As Lester Brown writes in Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, mountain glaciers are melting in the Andes, the Rocky Mountains, the Alps, and elsewhere, but nowhere does this melting threaten world food security more than in the Himalayas and on the Tibet - Qinghai Plateau, where the melting of glaciers could soon deprive the major rivers of India and China of the ice melt needed to sustain them during the dry season.

The role of climate change in causing extreme heat waves, drastic rainfall, negative impacts on human health and threatened food security have received more attention recently than megadrought.

This is articulated in three statements of purpose: to support innovative approaches to helping smallholder producers — both women and men — build their resilience to climate change; to help smallholder farmers take advantage of available mitigation incentives and funding; and to inform a more coherent dialogue on climate change, rural development, agriculture and food security.

Such higher levels of warming would make it much more difficult for countries to keep the global temperature rise to below 2C, as they agreed to do at the landmark Paris climate summit last year, to avoid dangerous extreme weather and negative effects on food security.

In those cities, a Multi-stakeholder Forum on Urban Agriculture and / or Food Security has been established, involving all direct and indirect stakeholders in urban food production and consumption, assisted by one or more multi-disciplinary working groFood Security has been established, involving all direct and indirect stakeholders in urban food production and consumption, assisted by one or more multi-disciplinary working grofood production and consumption, assisted by one or more multi-disciplinary working groups.

Following Twemoran advice, I wrote to all London MEP (8 representatives) a little more than 2 weeks ago, summarizing the impact of the Arctic amplification (on permafrost, methane hydrate and Greenland ice sheet) and the impact on NH climate with the slowing down of the jet stream and more extreme weather (+ further down the line potential issue on food security) I also attached the «Weird winter mad March Part 2» video with extract of numerous scientists of which Jeff Masters and J. Francis to illustrate the impact on NH climate.

Mountain glaciers are melting in the Andes, the Rocky Mountains, the Alps, and elsewhere, but nowhere does melting threaten world food security more than in the glaciers of the Himalayas and on the Tibetan Plateau that feed the major rivers of India and China.

If you are a senior citizen trying to live on social security, this may be catastrophic since it may make it necessary to choose between food and electricity, as has already been reported in the case of some of the more vulnerable residents of the UK.

Increased mean upstream rainfall partly compensates for upstream water losses, although net irrigation demand may put more stress on the region's food security.

Urban policies need to incorporate food security considerations and focus more on building cities that are more resilient to crises.

Among the issues reviewed were: • The prospects for air pollution and climate change in the region up to 2030 in the absence of action on SLCPs; • The potential contribution of SLCP mitigation to climate, health and food security, and more generally to economic development; • Feasible mitigation technologies and strategies and opportunities for their implementation at national scale; • The relationship of SLCP mitigation to broader regional air pollution and climate strategies and their benefit for the MENA region.

For a country with such poor food security (40 % self sufficient) and nearly totally dependent on energy imports, you got ta wonder if any number of green sky sky scrapers are much more than window dressing the approaching economic / energetic / ecological melt down we all face....

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by Trudi Zundel With food security threatened throughout the developing world, the global community has been paying a lot more attention to the effect of climate change on agriculture.

OSLO, October 16 — More than 100 experts from 52 countries met in Oslo on Monday 16 October to begin work on the IPCC's special report on Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems.

For more than 50 years, our firm has been helping clients throughout Ohio get the workers» compensation and Social Security Disability (SSD) benefits they need to pay their bills, treat their injuries and put food on the table.

The UK must answer difficult questions on climate change, food security, aviation and more as it leaves the EU on 29 March 2019

Non-tech workers, including contractors in such jobs as security guards, food - service employees or gardeners at Google, Facebook Inc., Apple Inc. and other big companies, often commute for two hours or more each way from California's Central Valley, where housing is more affordable, or live in recreational vehicles parked on city streets.