Sentences with phrase «amount of food production»

Basic math also shows that the amount of land required to simply replace fossil fuels with biofuels is daunting, and quite possibly crippling for the amount of food production required to feed the coming wave of 9 billion people.

[Man] is using his powers for increasing the rate and amount of food production.

Not exact matches

«On average, the amount of water required to produce one liter of biofuel is the same amount that's required to produce food for a person for one day,» he said, adding that the problem with first generation biofuels was that they were competing with food production systems in terms of water and land.

This would seriously disrupt food production in many regions and reduce even further the amount of food available to deal with growing starvation.

The increase in production of food in the world following the Green Revolution has hardly done more than maintain the existing amount of food per person because of the continuous increment in population.

Large amount of processing and production of the food product, which increase the chance of stainless steel contamination caused by processing and packaging machine failure

Scientific research increasingly demonstrates that large - scale intensive meat production uses disproportionate amounts of land, water, and feed, adds markedly to climate change and is a factor in water pollution and food contamination.

«Before food even reaches a consumer, we focus on reducing the amount of food waste being generated during the production processes, through standard operating activities at every stage from planning to post analysis,» says Kathleen Cacciola, Senior Director for Environmental Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility.

Advances in the amounts of data that can be stored, analysed, interpreted and used as input in decision making are driving more efficient value chains and production processes with more streamlined logistics and reduced food wastage.79

New figures released by FDF show that these food and drink manufacturers have significantly reduced the amount of water used in the production of -LSB-...]

The massive amount of resources consumed unnecessarily across the entire production cycle and the associated inequality and injustice in view of food sovereignty on an inter - and intra-generational scale are the decisive reasons for me to fight against food waste.

Another step in agricultural production is sorting: By improving fresh produce sorting with available technologies the food industry could improve its footprint significantly:» -LRB-...) By increasing yields by just 1 % with better sorting technology, it is possible to increase the final amount of this type of produce in the United States by 11 million tons -LRB-...).»

In his own submission, the Minister of Trade, Industry and Investment, Dr. Okechukwu Enelamah, said the newly - inaugurated council would look at all dimensions of food security including the amount of money invested in food production and the industry value chain.

In our country, in the U.S. and in most of the higher - income world, we subsidize the production of animal - source food, and we don't give money in the same amount to fruits and vegetables.

Two recent reports noted that corn - based ethanol production is upping food prices and consuming worrisome amounts of water.

In Sub-Saharan Africa, just 5 percent of food losses are at the consumption stage, but vast amounts of food are wasted during production and processing.

By reducing the amount of food - based inputs and energy required in the production of biofuels, the overall cost of production will be reduced.

The researchers explained that beef cattle are the most GHG - intensive food to produce and that the production of legumes (beans, peas, etc.) results in one - fortieth the amount of GHGs as beef.

The production of food through agriculture uses 80 % of the available water supply in the U.S., meaning that uneaten food leads to a significant amount of wasted water.

Experts have labelled this as «virtual water»: the amount of water that is embedded in food or other products needed for its production.

The body tightly regulates the amount of cholesterol in the blood by control the internal production, so when cholesterol intake from food goes down, the body makes more, and when cholesterol intake goes up, the body simply makes less of its own.

Don't be... when you eat a food that contains a high amount of dietary cholesterol such as eggs, your body down - regulates it's internal production of cholesterol to balance things out.

Flavor enhancers and preservatives that are used in the production of processed foods often contain significant amounts of sodium as well.

First of all, when you eat a food that contains a high amount of dietary cholesterol such as eggs, your body down - regulates it's internal production of cholesterol to balance things out.

ALA supports cellular integrity by interacting with vitamin C and glutathione, allowing the production of Vitamin E. Small amounts of lipoic acid are found in green vegetables such as broccoli, however, supplementation provides a readily available amount that may not be obtainable solely by eating green vegetables or other foods as part of a daily diet.

This can be caused by a number of things, from having a deficient amount of enzymes needed to break down specific carbohydrates, fats or proteins which lead to improper digestion and undigested food in the large intestines which results in gas production and bloating.

Modern mass production of food has filled store shelves full of processed foods that contain high amounts of sugar.

Additionally, offering a child simple, easy to digest, whole, non-processed foods accompanied by small amounts of food herbs and spices (thyme, ginger, licorice, chamomile), will strengthen and support a weak digestive system and keep mucus production and inflammation at a minimum.

Meat production involves horrific amounts of water, land, energy, and pollution, compared to plant foods.

Grass - fed beef, organic poultry, even wild fish and all kinds of nuts are some of the best foods for glowing skin because they deliver ample amounts of amino acids that boost collagen production.

As highlighted in the documentary Food Inc., the amount of money that goes toward the overproduction of corn, soy and other subsidies like wheat could be diverted to the production of fruits, vegetables and grass - fed livestock, providing that budget redistribution and subsequent actions were handled carefully.

When your rabbit returns to normal stool production and after the introduction of green foods you can try feeding small amounts of fruits and other vegetables as treats.

In females at the latest stages of pregnancy and during lactation, high protein dog food is essential, respectively, for the proper physical development of the foetuses and for the proper production of good quality milk, which contains relatively high amounts of protein.

For example, you want to place paddies near water to increase food production, place your markets near high traffic roads to increase the amount of people, place your troop buildings near the capitol, etc..

Whatever you grow that you don't use for food can then be fed into biofuel production (as well as biochar production, as a soil amendment, meaning NEGATIVE emissions), and then you have some amount of ethanol, biodiesel, or bio-based hydrocarbon product.

Here's a brief excerpt from a videotaped conversation between Gates and Smil, focused on the enormous amount of wasted food production in this country:

The production of ethanol for fuel in the US uses huge amounts of land, some of which was brought back into production for this purpose, large amounts of energy to the point there is probably a net loss, major water consumption, and little savings in net CO2 emissions (which are plant food anyway.)

While the greenhouse gas footprint of the production of other foods, compared to sources such as livestock, is highly dependent on a number of factors, production of livestock currently accounts for about 30 % of the U.S. total emissions of methane.316, 320,325,326 This amount of methane can be reduced somewhat by recovery methods such as the use of biogas digesters, but future changes in dietary practices, including those motivated by considerations other than climate change mitigation, could also have an effect on the amount of methane emitted to the atmosphere.327

We don't know precisely how bad extreme weather will become at any given amount of warming, or how much critical factors like global food production will be impacted.

With that amount of growth, we will need to almost double food production in order to keep everyone fed — and using current methods, that amount of production would emit an enormous quantity of greenhouse gases, further adding to the issue of climate change.

We know that food production and distribution use tremendous amounts of fossil fuels.

(07/17/2008) Government support of biofuel production in rich countries is squandering vast amounts of amounts of money while exacerbating the global food crisis and failing to meaningfully curb greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy security, alleges a new report from the OECD, the club of industrialized nations.

Beyond high food prices, little to show for $ 11B / yr in biofuel support, says OECD report (7/17/2008) Government support of biofuel production in rich countries is squandering vast amounts of amounts of money while exacerbating the global food crisis and failing to meaningfully curb greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy security, alleges a new report from the OECD, the club of industrialized nations.

One of the problems is that bioethanol production relies on the cultivation of large amounts of plant material often on land that was formally tropical rain forest, or on land that would otherwise have been used to produce food.

They also show that food production is significantly up, while the amount of land used for food has gone down.

In addition to production for their own consumption needs, large amounts of food are produced for other categories of the population.

Relevance of course lies in the reduction of large amounts of CO2 but possibly in the further production of oxygen and the synthesis of foods.

«These people think you're stupid: We're supposed to ignore all those «bumper crop» reports and believe that trace amounts of CO2 are devastating world food production»

While less meat gets wasted than does fruit and vegetables, the amount of energy required to produce meat is «significantly» more than that for plant - based food production, which means that the associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from meat production is also much higher, leading researchers to indicate that meat waste has a «greater negative environmental impact.»

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