Sentences with phrase «affect food security»

This would further adversely affect food security and exacerbate malnutrition.»

It also focuses on the project level and provides a tool that can be used to assess how an existing or planned agricultural operation with a bioenergy component may affect food security.

These impacts affect food security through altering or restraining livelihood strategies, while also affecting the variety of foods available and nutritional intake (Kelly et al., 2003).

The farmers fear the situation could affect crop production and yields, thereby affecting food security and their incomes.

It found that the six dams would retain nearly 900 million tons of river sediment annually, preventing those nutrients from reaching floodplains, potentially affecting food security downstream.

Not exact matches

Affected sectors include food inspection, aviation safety and security, environmental protection and Employment Insurance.

«President Ramaphosa reaffirmed that accelerated land reform will unfold within a clear legal framework and without negatively affecting economic growth, agricultural production and food security,» the presidency said in a statement.

Prior to attending the Waste Not, Want Not: The Circular Economy to Food Security conference, I thought we, the human race, were not making any palpable efforts to deal with the scourge of food security issues affecting peoples in developing countrFood Security conference, I thought we, the human race, were not making any palpable efforts to deal with the scourge of food security issues affecting peoples in developing coSecurity conference, I thought we, the human race, were not making any palpable efforts to deal with the scourge of food security issues affecting peoples in developing countrfood security issues affecting peoples in developing cosecurity issues affecting peoples in developing countries.

The increasing importance of food and nutritional security in view of climate change factors affecting Pacific Islands Countries intensifies the need to reduce horticultural food loss.

By addressing school food, we affect public health, academic performance, economics, justice, national security, the environment, and community well - being.

His team built a model with agents representing 1.4 million households around the globe — roughly 10,000 per country — and looked at how climate change and disasters might affect health, food security, and labor productivity.

Data on past climates are vital for researchers seeking to understand how anthropogenic climate change will affect Earth?s ecosystems and species, including its effects on infectious diseases and food security.

Hertel and doctoral student Uris Baldos developed a combination of economic models — one that captures the main drivers of crop supply and demand and another that assesses food security based on caloric consumption — to predict how global food security from 2006 to 2050 could be affected by changes in population, income, bioenergy, agricultural productivity and climate.

They say that these changes may affect honeybees» foraging efficiency and, ultimately, could affect pollination and thus global food security.

«Swirling, gusty winds in Earth's atmosphere affect problems at the nexus of landscape degradation, food security and epidemiological factors affecting human health,» Anderson said.

Accounting for food's nutritional value and the land and water resources needed to produce exports offers a more holistic view of how trade affects global food security and the environment.

However, Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought (DLDD) as well as climate change can negatively affect the provision of these ecosystem services with potentially severe implications for food security, livelihoods, and human well - being.

While climate change in recent decades has been found to negatively affect crop yields in many regions, a new study led by Carnegie's Julia Pongratz is the first to examine the potential effect of geoengineering on food security.

Climate change effects on agriculture will have consequences for food security both in the U.S. and globally, not only through changes in crop yields, but also changes in the ways climate affects food processing, storage, transportation, and retailing.

What the Human Development report provides is a framework for thinking about how climate change affects the range of options for improving human lives, as experienced through food security, education, health, natural disaster risks, migration, and so on.

All aspects of food security are potentially affected by climate change, including food access, utilization, and price stability (high confidence).

A post from last fall on grain stocks and food (in) security on the Big Picture Agriculture blog (at the time, the unrest was in Mozambique) has some helpful context on the mix of issues affecting food availability:

According to the report, by the end of the century, temperatures in the deltaic region could increase by four degrees Celsius, affecting weather in the Indus and over the Arabian sea with serious implications for food security.

The booklet sets out an analytical framework for understanding the water - energy - food security nexus in the Arab region and considers the linkages that affect the achievement of water, energy and food security and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a view to mitigating climate change and ensuring access to food, water and sustainable energy for all.

Four hundred ppm is just a milestone, but it's just one more indicator that we are living in the Anthropocene era of history where human activity significantly affects the environment and subsequently, our food, water and energy security.

In this paper, we focus on the issue of how climate change affects the way that agricultural systems and the people that manage and govern them need to change in the next 20 years in order to achieve food security... [bold added]

400 ppm is just a milestone, but it's one more indicator that we are living in the Anthropocene era of history where human activity significantly affects the environment and subsequently, our food, water and energy security.

such as coal for electricity production is a primary leading factor to human - induced emissions affecting the health, livelihoods, food productivity, water availability, and overall security of millions of African people.

«All aspects of food security are potentially affected by climate change including food access, utilisation of land, and price stability,» said Revi, adding that studies showed wheat and rice yields were decreasing due to climatic changes.

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.

Climate change impacts on temperature and precipitation will affect food production and food security in various ways in specific areas throughout this diverse region.

The joint study, published by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) under the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), models the global suitability of arabica cultivation to see how production will be affected in 2050.

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On the sentence on food security risks, Saudi Arabia proposed replacing «tropical» with «low latitudes» regions, and stating that all aspects of food security are affected.

While the change in river levels will have immediate impacts on food and water security for nations across the world, scientists are also concerned about how less freshwater may affect the oceans.

«The impacts from these changes are affecting livelihoods, infrastructure, ecosystems, food production, energy supply, national security, and the cultural heritage of populations and communities.»

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has recently reconfirmed that human - induced global warming is gathering pace and is affecting many critical aspects of life including food, water, energy and livelihood security.

Severe weather variability has affected harvests around the world but the many of the tools to enhance food security are within our grasp.

This is especially the case in attempts to understand the food, water and energy security implications for the people living in the basins who depend directly on meltwater, either seasonally or as an overall component of their water budget, and how they are affected by climate change in their mountainous environment (13).

Science Alert: Ocean warming has already affected global fisheries in the past four decades, a new international study has found, driving up the proportion of warm - water fish being caught and posing a threat to food security worldwide.

The analytical framework considers the linkages that affect the achievement of water, energy and food security through the lens of sustainable development and the achievement of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, with a view to mitigating climate change and ensuring access to food, water and sustainable energy for all in the context of a human - rights approach.

Floods, droughts, hurricanes, sea - level rise and seasonal unpredictability - hallmarks of climate change - are affecting people's rights to life, security, food, water, health and shelter in all corners of the world today.

Whether we bike or drive to work will affect carbon emissions, climate change, and food security.

The region will be affected by rising temperatures, water security, sea - level rises, storm surges, extreme weather events, inland and coastal flooding, and food security issues.

FThe food sovereignty movement argues that the focus solely on food security, without addressing the production of food, has caused poor, food - insecure countries to import cheap, subsidized food to the detriment of their local farmers, economies, and cultures, thus adversely affecting longer - term and sustainable food security.

«Accelerated land reform will unfold within a clear legal framework and without negatively affecting economic growth, agricultural production, and food security.»