Sentences with phrase «u.n. food and agriculture»

Yet according to data from The Food and Agriculture Organization of the Unitred Nations (FAOSTAT), Americans eat about 3,600 calories daily — a 24 % increase from 1961.

Residents of the United States have, on average, more food - energy available to them than anybody else on the planet: 3,729 calories per person, per day — or so the United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization calculates.

Other industries likely to be hit: healthcare, food and agriculture, manufacturing, real estate, government, apparel, education, automotive, construction, and business services.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization reports that the vitamin C in citrus can also help treat stress.

Global consumption of avocados, now a $ 3 billion industry, has doubled in the last decade, and a third of the 3.8 million tonne annual harvest is currently traded internationally, according to data from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations.

While Trump has yet to put forth a comprehensive plan for food and agriculture, his rhetoric on the trail and since suggests that deregulation will be a major theme.

This ads up to about half of produce grown and billions of dollars» worth of lost fruits and vegetables, according to a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization report and a study in the Journal of Consumer Affairs.

But the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization estimates 90 percent of the world's fish stocks are now fully exploited or dangerously overfished.

In its most recent report on the state of global fisheries, the United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization warned that 90 percent of the world's fish stocks are fully or overfished, and increasing production to meet the world's growing demand for animal protein can't be done in a sustainable manner.

That is why the United States is working to negotiate in TPP preferential access for the industrial goods, food and agriculture products, textiles, and many other products we export into the fastest - growing economies in the world.

One of the most vibrant sectors for MSMEs today is food and agriculture.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Blue River Technology, a leader in the use of computer vision, machine learning and robotics for agriculture, today announced it has raised $ 17 million in Series B funding led by Pontifax Global Food and Agriculture Technology Fund (Pontifax AgTech).

Shelley Clarke, a fisheries researcher with the Food and Agriculture Association of the United Nations, estimates that in the year 2000, between 26 and 73 million sharks perished.

The country has also increased tariffs on many imported U.S. food and agriculture goods, including fruit, nuts and pork.

About Avrio Ventures Inc: Avrio Capital was established in 2006 to identify and invest in innovative food and agriculture companies that provide solutions to global challenges in the areas of health, wellness and sustainability.

An agreement must ensure local and national sovereignty over food and agriculture policy.

According to figures provided by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 9.2 % of China's population is undernourished.

She has spent more than 10 years in food and agriculture businesses, including at McKinsey and Syngenta.

Trucks stimulate economic activity in every sector of the American economy — including health care, fuel and transportation, waste removal, retail, food and agriculture, manufacturing, banking and finance, and many others.

Francis drew a standing ovation on Monday at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, where he marked the UN's World Food Day by calling for governments to work together to tackle the interconnected problems of hunger, global warming and migration.

Across most of the region — in Sudan, Somalia, Niger, Senegal, Nigeria's Niger Delta area, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia — the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization in 2006 identified tension or outright violence over the use of water - rich land or water itself.

A. H. Boerma, director - general of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N., estimates that the critical shortfall next year will run from 8 to 12 million metric tons of grain in the five most severely threatened countries: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Tanzania.

The same conclusion has been reached by studies of the World Bank and Food and Agriculture Organization.

UNESCO, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Health Organization, the various Technical Aid Services --

This ecological point of view underlies such international organizations as The Food and Agriculture Organization, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (and consequent establishment of a Trade Board), UNESCO, the UN Special Fund and Technical Assistance program, and others.

In a speech to the Food and Agriculture Organization, a Rome - based arm of the United Nations, Benedict condemned market speculators who have the «sole objective of profit.»

By 1985 the Food and Agriculture Organization predicts an 85 million ton gap between grain production and world need.

Mr. A. H. Boerma, General Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, is calling upon the world to set aside 15 % of the annual grain yield in a global food bank for emergency use to prevent starvation.

According to a study of the Food and Agriculture Organization about 700 million people in the rural areas of the poor countries live in absolute poverty and their lot is not improving.

José Graziano da Silva, director general, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), urged governments in the Asia and Pacific region to sharpen their focus on achieving Zero Hunger by reducing rural poverty

CHAMPIONS INCLUDE: Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Gilbert Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Former White House Chef, Founder of TROVE and Venture Partner, Acre Venture Partners Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

In fact, research in the Journal of Food and Agriculture found that vanilla beans are high in oleic fatty acids, monounsaturated fats that can help reduce appetite and promote weight loss.

The California Avocado Inspection Committee (AIC), which operates under authority of the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), has submitted a petition to the Department seeking to modernize regulations governing the packing of California avocados.

Ken's articles have appeared in leading food and agriculture publications and websites such as Civil Eats, Harvest Public Media, Prepared Foods, Natural Foods Merchandiser, Food Processing, and World Grain as well as The Huffington Post, Yahoo News, Mother Earth News, and others.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Dairy Federation (IDF) signed the Dairy Declaration of Rotterdam on 19th October during the IDF World Dairy Summ...

Tammi has worked solidly over many years for fair and consistent regulation of farming and food production and distribution, and led the process to establish a Legal Defence Fund to protect and promote the right of people to determine their own food and agriculture systems.

European Grapevine Moth Detected in Sonoma County: The Sonoma County Agricultural Commissioner, in cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), announces the detection of a single male European Grapevine Moth (EGVM, Lobesia botrana) in the western portion of Sonoma County, near Cazadero...

Resist also called for the intensified mass movements against GMOs in food and agriculture.

Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy.

Its core topic will be SAVE FOOD, an initiative that was originally launched at interpack 2011, in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), with the purpose of counteracting food losses and waste.

Roger Beachy is a Wolf Prize laureate; President Emeritus of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO, USA; and former director of the U.S. National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

A global contest to find world's best agroecology policies has been jointly launched by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Future Council (WFC) and IFOAM — Organics International was launched last week at the 2nd International Symposium on Agroecology, held in Rome (6 April 2018).

The energy efficiency (food energy output / kg / energy input / kg) is five times higher than soy, twice that of corn and more than 100 times higher than grain - fed beef, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has predicted a 60 percent increase in protein demand over the next 30 years while the ability to produce that protein appears to increase only 40 percent.

Rabobank, a global food and agriculture bank dedicated to building a better food future, reports key trends from FoodBytes!

Sunrise Growers hires independent third party auditors from the California Processing Strawberry Advisory Board to inspect and grade all incoming fruit against a set of rigid standards established by the California Department of Food and Agriculture.

Globally, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) estimates that food worth about $ 940 billion is lost or wasted each year throughout the entire food supply chain.

«The fact that our choice of what to eat has an impact on the environment is not my opinion, it's the opinion of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation,» she said.

The Safe Food Alliance and the California Department of Food and Agriculture are offering Produce Safety Training sessions for produce growers, buyers and others interested in learning about produce safety, the Food Safety Modernization Act Produce Safety Rule, Good Agricultural Practices and co-management of natural resources and food safety.

Support for the Global Food and Agriculture Program is generously provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.