Sentences with phrase «by global demand for food»

In this case, a «perfect storm of environmental destruction» from deforestation, logging, wildfire, and climate change, which is driven by global demand for food, biofuels, minerals, and hydrocarbons.

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Global comparable sales rose 4 percent in the third quarter, their first rise in more than one year, driven by demand for value meals and breakfast items in China, where sales had plummeted after a food safety scandal in July 2014.

An October report showed that current organic production was not meeting consumer demands for products; despite projections by Allied Market Research that the global organic food and beverages market is expected to triple the 2015 market by 2022, organic supply is still not able to meet increasing consumer demand.

Nevertheless, looking ahead to 2011 the prospects for Irish food and drink exports remain positive, helped by strong global demand for commodity products and a relatively tight supply situation in a number of key product categories.

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A push by Coles and Woolworths into the health foods category has been bolstered by a global survey underlining the strength of consumer demand for healthier packaged and fresh foods.

And with projections that the world population will rise to over nine billion by the year 2050, the pressure is on to meet global demand for food.

A prosperous global population however, has blazed the way for burgeoning new mouths to feed that, by 2050, will nearly double food demand.

Growing demand for food means global food production must roughly double by 2050, he says.

«We focused on agriculture because global food demand is expected to double by mid-century, and new or improved roads are vital for farmers,» said Dr Gopalasamy Reuben Clements from James Cook.

Rice production is critical for global food security, and demand will only grow as the world's population expands by an estimated 2 - 3 billion by 2050.

The study's authors write that halving the amount of food waste and managing demand for particularly environmentally - damaging food products by changing global diets should be key aims that, if achieved, might mitigate some of the greenhouse gases causing climate change.

Whether it's the destruction of rainforest shared by elephants and orangutans in Sumatra to produce palm oil; reports linking fast food giants to the burning of tropical forests in Brazil and Bolivia; or the hundreds of thousands of hectares of tree cover loss per year in West Africa — the world's forests are being razed to sate global demand for -LSB-...]

Craig Idso, who founded the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, said the world food supply will fall short of demand by 2050 unless more CO2 is pumped into the atmosphere.

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According to a report commissioned by the World Bank, global demand for fuels made from food accounted for nearly 70 % of the historic price spike in wheat, rice, corn, and soy during the summer 2008.

Even if problems caused by climate change turn out to be modest, global populations are expected to increase to 10 billion people by 2050, and the demand for food will likely go up by 50 percent or more as people in the developing world increase their income and consume foods that require more resources to produce.

This study shows Brazilian sugarcane ethanol could displace up to 13 % of global crude oil consumption by 2045 whilst balancing forest conservation and future land demand for food.

With global demand for food projected to increase by 50 % before 2030, we will need an additional 120 million hectares of agricultural land to support the required food production.