Sentences with phrase «affects global food supply»

The new course will also be six sessions, with sessions exploring food systems — from how agriculture contributes to climate change and how climate change affects global food supply, to food justice and food politics issues, to the health of our bodies and the health of ecosystems.

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A recent Geophysical Research Letters study found that the Arctic permafrost contains 32 million gallons of mercury, which is projected to adversely affect our global air, food, water and soil supplies as the Earth warms and the permafrost unthaws, releasing the neurotoxin.

Global warming is affecting oceans, food and water supply, coastal areas and biodiversity, and creating what Gore calls «the largest business opportunity in world history, as the global economy decarbonizes and becomes hyper - efficient.&Global warming is affecting oceans, food and water supply, coastal areas and biodiversity, and creating what Gore calls «the largest business opportunity in world history, as the global economy decarbonizes and becomes hyper - efficient.&global economy decarbonizes and becomes hyper - efficient.»

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.

One of the most critical questions surrounding climate change is how it might affect the food supply for a growing global population.

To ease global food crisis, rice with submergence tolerance is needed: -2007 Bangladesh Tista / Jamuna Rivers flooded million hectares up to 3 weeks; cyclone Nargis flooded 1.75 M Irawaddy - grain supply affected by population growth, diversion of grain to biofuels and to livestock as more people eat meat - funding contraints on R&D - crippled developing world extension systems

Global warming also affects the food supply of other species.

We've been talking about flaws in the RFS for some time, and the chorus of voices has grown because requiring increasing volumes of ethanol in the nation's fuel supply could affect vehicle owners, consumers paying for fuel and food, the environment and the global food supply.

Aim of the study The objective of this study was to estimate how global food supply might be affected by greenhouse gas induced climate change up to the year 2060.

The United Nations report mentions calamitous outcomes from continuing global warming that would affect the world's food supply, economies, and ways of life.

The melting of glaciers will affect people around the world, their drinking water supplies, water needed to grow food and supply energy, as well as global sea levels.