Sentences with phrase «as food shortages»

They are already having a very real impact on the finances of consumers in the USA and other developed countries, and in the developing world, where they manifest as food shortages, they are already a major factor contributing to social unrest and even violent revolution.

Those crises could mean lost income for American commercial farmers, as well as food shortages for poorer subsistence farmers, who rely on their crops to feed themselves and their families, Lesk said.

As food shortages hit, young European earwigs resort to eating each other's excrement in their underground homes, helping to keep hunger and death at bay.

The hike in food prices is raising concerns about food security and its political and social repercussions as food shortages and price hikes have previously been responsible for riots in developing countries.

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He pointed to success stories such as Cookbiz, a company founded in 2007 that developed a job - search platform aimed at alleviating high turnover and labor shortages in the food industry.

The country, suffering from skyrocketing inflation and rampant food and power shortages, is currently operating under a «constitutional state of emergency» as protestors call for the removal of President Nicolas Maduro.

Tylenol was buffeted by a series of quality - related product recalls and shortages in recent years as it overhauled manufacturing under a consent decree from the Food and Drug Administration, with full production in the U.S. only resuming within the past year.

He is a businessman at heart, as is the LDS church to be truthful, and most of the gold mines and food shortage businesses you see attached to his website and brand are in fact tied to the mormon church.

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As in the case of physical malnutrition, severe shortages of psychological food have their most damaging effects during the early years when growth is the most rapid and personality the most plastic.

«Bangladesh has emerged as a global model for combating hunger and obtained great success in becoming a country of food surplus from chronic food shortages.

As the world races toward a projected 9 billion inhabitants and against the backdrop of climate change, resource shortages and urbanisation, the question of how to ensure adequate food supply for everyone looms rather large.

Operators are facing four big areas of challenge that Technomic sees as transformative, bound to drive changes in how operators approach business: 1) coping with supply chain challenges, including driver shortages; 2) meeting consumer demand for «food with integrity»; 3) dealing with «regulation nation» where industry - disrupting changes may include a higher minimum wage; and 4) incorporating innovations into operations, including new delivery models, variable pricing, self - ordering systems, and robotics.

At my house there is never a shortage of green material (also known as wet or nitrogen - rich matter)-- orange peels, corn husks, dinner food scraps, yard waste, etc. — for my compost bin, but when it comes to finding brown (also known as dry or carbon - rich) material, in the past I've often ended up coming up short.

As you may have gathered, there is no shortage of food that you can feed to your baby to ensure that they are getting the proper amount of fiber.

It became a game of chicken that eventually forced the Soviet Union into defeat as they couldn't keep up with U.S. spending, having been hit by several food shortages, the Afghanistan War, and Chernobyl.

Puerto Rico police said Wednesday officers have arrested 36 people so far for looting and stealing as millions of the island's residents continue to struggle with shortages in food, water, and gasoline after Hurricane Maria.

«A projected 5.1 million people will face serious food shortages as the conflict and risk of unexploded improvised devices prevented farmers planting for a third year in a row, causing a major food crisis,» the UN said on December 2.

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.

The impact of global warming has been linked to the severity of droughts, water scarcity, and food shortages in war - torn Syria, but now an internationally recognized expert on water resources has identified climate change as a factor contributing to political turmoil in the region.

These include the ability to bring new, innovative products to the market; progress in oncology, such as the approval of Genentech's drug Avastin for breast cancer and advances in the use of gene therapy, despite some setbacks; continuing progress in research on stem cells; the emergence of treatments for previously untreated diseases; and solutions for food and fuel shortages, such as biocrops and biofuels.

While scientists have generally attributed their swarming mass migrations to food shortages, there's a darker side of that hunger that keeps these insects on the march: If one stops marching, the others will devour it, as seen here.

As a warming climate continues to accelerate the summer ice melts, it is important to understand how polar bears are — or are not — adapting to even more extreme food shortages.

At the same time, CSIRO is also crafting lower - tech programs for farmers in nearby developing countries, which may face severe food shortages due to crop failures and even widespread famine as the weather heats up, water dries up, and population explodes.

Tainter pointed to food shortages as the weak link, when it should be the linchpin holding society together.

Studies show that CR causes animals to live longer, possibly as an evolutionary mechanism to let them reproduce late in life after a food shortage has ended.

But when the wolves eat too many moose, the resulting food shortage pares down the former's number, controlling their population, as well.

In sub-Saharan Africa, the International Federation of the Red Cross has launched an emergency appeal as extreme flooding is predicted to worsen food shortages.

Babies who receive poor nutrition in the womb, the theory goes, can expect to face food shortages after birth as well, and their metabolism is programmed to be especially thrifty with the calories they do receive.

dangers from particulates, dangers from poisons in food and water, dangers from fuel shortages, dangers from war, all of these would ease as we shifted away from this hydrocarbon economy.

The work to boost crop productivity comes as concerns about food shortages rise with the world's population.

These biodegradable particles could be the basis for reduced risk conventional pesticide products that have the potential to reduce the amount of chemicals used in plant protection by as much as 90 percent, save farmers more than 25 percent on pest - control initiatives and, in a world facing looming food shortages, help increase crop yields for more and better food.

«Bangladesh has emerged as a global model for combating hunger and obtained great success in becoming a country of food surplus from chronic food shortages.

Such extremes have led to millions facing food and water shortages, as well as thousands of deaths globally, pointing to the need to not only mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, but to also invest in adaptation and improving the forecast systems of developing countries, Taalas said in his forward to the report.

The researchers discovered that social factors, such as limitations on networks and mobility, were the primary contributors to vulnerability to food shortage.

Virtually no traditional diet falls within the USDA dietary guidelines of 30 percent or less of calories as fat except when there is an actual shortage of food.

Our bodies have adapted since the beginning of mankind to be able to produce BHB and use it as an efficient fuel source when food was scarce which has allowed humanity to survive food shortages and other circumstances where access to dietary carbohydrates are limited.

70 Foods are analyzed according to the five flavors71 of sour, bitter, sweet, pungent and salty, and applied as a kind of supplement for the primary energies of yin, yang, chi and blood.72 In Chinese System of Food Cures, Dr. Henry C. Lu recommends chicken for underweight, poor appetite, diarrhea, edema, frequent urination, vaginal bleeding and discharge, shortage of milk secretion after childbirth and weakness after childbirth73 — all symptoms of yin deficiency.

However, with a whole food approach to veganism, there is no shortage of vital nutrients, such as protein, calcium, and vitamins to maintain good health.

This will make the food shortage greater as more and more people seek out organically grown crops.

It's interconnected with the internal problems of each group such as food or water shortage.

May 21, 2018 • Venezuela held a presidential election on Sunday as the country struggles with inflation and food shortages.

Ongoing campaigns to drive standards from figures such as Jamie Oliver, combined with frequent news items such as the shortage of free school dinners, and the little food eaten by secondary school students means that there is little doubt that for parents, school dinners is likely to be one of the school - related issues at the front of their minds.

Feral cats live about half as long as domestic cats because they have more fights, accidents, illnesses, predators, and food shortages.

As part of the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program (VMLRP), individuals may submit nominations to the TAHC for areas they believe have a veterinary shortage.

Use caution when leaving your pet's food outside, as wild animals may wander onto your property to graze if their usual food supply is suffering a shortage.

Studies indicate there are significant shortages of food animal veterinarians in certain areas of the country, and in high - priority specialty sectors that require advanced training, such as food safety, epidemiology, diagnostic medicine and public health.

We currently care for more than 40 African penguins in our Cold Water Quest gallery, but did you know their counterparts in the wild are facing harmful challenges such as oil spills, food shortages and habitat degradation?

However, what these images do not reveal are the great economic and human costs of these state - sponsored initiatives, particularly as violent pogroms, forced labor camps, deliberate famines, and food shortages became commonplace under Stalin's rule by the 1930s.

What Bush is «thinking» about concerning climate change is way too late as S. Weisman of the Times reported (Seen in SF Chronicle, April14) on the rapidly developing world food crisis that could hit the USA with wheat and flour shortages in weeks.