Sentences with phrase «address food shortages»

Biotechnology promises drought - resistant, more productive crops to address food shortages brought on by climate shocks and population growth.

Plants engineered to have bigger root systems could also help address food shortages and aid in efforts to grow crops in a warmer, drier climate.

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In September, he announced a plan to give rabbits to families suffering from food shortages in order to help address widespread hunger.

To address the shortages, organic food companies have launched initiatives to increase organic acres.

Such underinvestment not only slows scientific advancement, it also threatens the nation's ability to address pressing global problems such as food, water and energy shortages, climate change and disease.

With food shortages and increased threats of climate change, interest in agroforestry is gathering for its potential to address various on - farm adaptation needs.

They wanted to address interwoven issues of food security, fuel wood shortages, soil erosion, clean water and poverty.

There is no shortage of support needs for communities to address the impacts of climate change in agricultural systems, including support for adaptation for vulnerable regions and transformation to sustainable and resilient food production systems, built around local food economies.

LOBET: The community looks to solutions to food, water, and wood shortages that are within its power to address.

In his written testimony, Admiral McGinn cited a number of scenarios that could come to pass if we fail to address the climate problem: rising humanitarian crises and conflicts in Africa exacerbated by drought, food insecurity, and extreme weather; social conflict and northern migration in Latin American driven by food shortages and land degradation; millions of refugees driven northward by intense coastal typhoon damage in Bangladesh; and external and internal unrest in Asia compounded by unreliable water supplies from the shrinking Himalayan glaciers.