Sentences with phrase «by food shortages»

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.

Environmentalists everywhere will welcome the news that the United Nations is backing more ecological agriculture; not just for its green benefits but in order to produce an estimated doubling of yields in areas affected by food shortages.

This will ease the problems caused by food shortages which so far have resulted in a further 44 million people being forced to live in poverty.

Situations where water may run dry, where mass migrations are provoked by food shortages or where extreme weather events on the rise.

The smaller groups stand a greater chance of being wiped out by food shortages or other vagaries of nature.

Ian Keymer, a retired MAFF vet from Norfolk who has studied fluctuations in red squirrel populations, says parapox is less likely to kill grey squirrels because it only causes disease in animals under stress, caused by food shortages for example.

Swarms of desert locusts rampaged across West Africa this year, stripping crops and crippling countries already hit by food shortages.

At least 120 protesters have died in recent months while the country has been affected by food shortages.

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McDonald's Japan has apologized to customers and vowed to ensure product safety after objects including a tooth and plastic were found in its food, the latest trouble for a fast - food chain hit by sliding sales and a shortage of french fries.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

By all accounts there is a serious humanitarian crisis underway, due to food, water, and fuel shortages and limited communications around the island.

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.

Government's chief science advisor Dr. Beddington warns of a «perfect storm» of food, energy and water shortages by 2030.

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A typical message I heard while listening to radio broadcasts in northern Nicaragua accused the Sandinistas of «burning churches, kidnapping Nicaraguan children and sending them to Cuba, stealing land from campesinos, creating internal food shortages by sending Nicaragua's food to the Soviet Union, and killing old people in order to make soap.»

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i do nt believe it anymore it has been over 2000 years n jesus never return to earth n i think the earth will end by nuclear disaster o food shortage o disease only n so we will c what going to happen on earth...

The Christian charity says conflicts and flooding are creating severe food shortages in the country, and the UN has warned that 50,000 children in South Sudan could die by 2015.

By making sauce or mash from the peppers, we will be able to save our crops and also begin to provide edible foodstuffs to the domestic market, which is already showing signs of food shortages.

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.

Observers and activists attribute the North Korea's malnutrition and occasional starvation problems to food shortages — which at times have been massive — and more fundamentally to the unequal distribution of food caused in large measure by the North Korean government's deliberate decisions and policies.

They also believe that rearing animals for food is bad for the environment and inefficient and suggest that world food shortages could be solved by farming crops rather than animals.

The pamphlets warn that consequences of climate change in the UK would include summer heat related deaths, sea level rises and food shortages by the end of the century.

Hurricane Maria has left 3.4 million Puerto Ricans facing shortages of food, health care and transit, an American humanitarian crisis fueled by the US territory's May 2017 bankruptcy.

«Ealing councillor Phil Taylor, responding to an article by the broadcaster blaming too many people and not enough land for Africa's food shortages, tweeted: «I do wish this silly old fart would take a one - way trip to Switzerland.

A combination of growing populations and food, energy and water shortages will reach crisis point by 2030, the government's chief scientific advisor will say later today.

Three communities in the Niger Delta region, Abacheke, Ugada and Etwkuru, all of Egbema in Ohaji / Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State, have lamented shortage of food due to the devastation of their farmlands by oil spillages.

The rise of tuberculosis (TB) in Zimbabwe during the socio - economic crisis of 2008 - 9 has been linked to widespread food shortage, according to a new study led by Canadian researchers from the University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health published in PLOS ONE.

However, the researchers found that questions about food security that are framed around vulnerability may be inappropriate and not generate accurate data due to a strong cultural reluctance to admit to food shortages because of deep obligation felt by some communities to share food with their families and guests.

, says that the Russian heatwave led to a hoarding of food supplies and price - fixing by speculators, which compounded food shortages and led to global wheat prices rising dramatically.

«That kind of demand would have made them much more susceptible to food shortages caused by fluctuating climatic or other conditions.»

Survivors complained of shortages of food and water, piling pressure on Aquino whose once soaring popularity has been eroded in recent weeks by a corruption scandal roiling his political allies.

The team suspects that the adult lizard resorted to cannibalism in response to a shortage of food caused by a drought in the area.

Because much of Eurasia was colonised by then, people couldn't escape food shortages by moving to a new area.

In February 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a severe nationwide shortage of norepinephrine caused by production interruptions at three drug manufacturers that persisted until February 2012.

The researchers suppressed the lipid droplets of the host cells, the bacterium's preferred food source, and found that the bacterium has a back - up plan that allows it to compensate for this shortage by drawing on the lipids within the host's membranes.

With a population expected to double in the next 50 years, Egypt is projected to have critical countrywide fresh water and food shortages by 2025.

They communicate by releasing chemicals, for instance warning their neighbours of a food shortage.

Considering that over 50 % of calories in local diets come from maize, yield losses caused by MSV can result in food shortages and famine.

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.

The Crat protein appears to regulate the storage of fat in the body, and thereby may condition the body to respond to a perceived food shortage caused by dieting by storing more fat in the future when more food is introduced.

«Forks Over Knives» had no shortage of personal stories from folks who, with a tearful glimmer in their eye, recounted how they evaded death by ditching their pill - popping, fast - food - noshing, insulin - injecting lifestyles.

Paleo women had to endure «adrenal failure» all the time by the looks of it; unless we suppose that food shortages only affected the men.

Nearly one - third of U.S. children under age 12 live in families that lack food at some point during the year or are at risk of serious food shortages during that time, according to a study by a nutrition watchdog group.

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.

(AKA Soylent Green) by Harry Harrison < br / > Harry Harrison's 1966 novel about an overcrowded urban society facing food and space shortages, became the inspiration for 1973 movie, Soylent Green.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture currently projects a shortage of 600 veterinarians and anticipates demand for food - animal veterinarians will increase 12 to 13 percent by 2016.

The eradication measures employed by third world countries — poisoning and shooting strays — spark sensational headlines and searing criticism in the West, but where people are still struggling to provide food and shelter for their families; where canine rabies is an epidemic, and where there are shortages of rabies vaccine and post exposure treatment, animal control is still a matter of human survival.

The VMLRP was an act passed by Congress in 2003 intended to assist areas without adequate veterinary care (mostly for food production and public health needs) by providing up to $ 75,000 in loan repayment for a three - year commitment by a veterinarian to practice in designated areas of veterinarian shortages.

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.