Sentences with phrase «capita consumption levels»

A new study estimates that, since 2008, access to mobile - money services — which allow users to store and exchange monetary values via mobile phone — increased daily per capita consumption levels of 194,000, or roughly 2 percent, of Kenyan households, lifting them out of extreme poverty (living on less than $ 1.25 per day).

What developments are shaping the U.S. coffee market and impacting per capita consumption levels?

Not exact matches

Included in Goal no. 12 on «responsible consumption and production» is a call to «halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels.»

Cele adds that, although China, the largest steel producer and iron - ore consumer, has experienced hiccups, Chinese steel consumption is still expected to grow in the current decade given the rate and levels of urbanisation and GDP per capita growth.

According to findings of the country's National Production Council, in 1983 the daily consumption per person was twenty - three grams.6 Per capita consumption of meat for Costa Ricans declined after that, in spite of the fact that consumption was already at an unacceptable level for supporting basic protein nutrition.

There is no possibility of solving the problems of poverty and overpopulation in the poorer countries by bringing their per capita consumption to the level of the United States!

The discouraging problem is that an increasing population could level off its consumption only if each person consumed less, whereas all our habits and traditions point to rapidly increasing per capita consumption.

In poor countries the birth rate is soaring, while consumption has leveled off (which means per capita consumption is going down); in rich countries the birth rate has leveled off, while consumption is increasing.

Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12 «ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns» has target 12.3 «by 2030, halve the per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer level, and reduce food losses along production and supply chains including post-harvest losses».

Though the United States was not the heaviest coffee - drinking nation at the time (Nordic countries, Belgium, and Netherlands all had comparable or higher levels of per capita consumption), due to its sheer size, it was already the largest consumer of coffee in the world by 1860, and, by 1920, around half of all coffee produced worldwide was consumed in the US.

Goal 12 — to ensure sustainable production and consumption patterns — is broken down into 11 smaller goals; 12.3 is to halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses, by 2030.

Based on average alcohol content levels, per capita consumption of pure alcohol was 8.09 litres per person.

There is potentially plenty more growth to come, with global per - capita steel consumption still only about half that level (see «Peak planet: Steel consumption per capita «-RRB-.

The evidence: A link between omega - 3 consumption and mood is supported by two main sources of evidence: People with depression have been shown to have lower levels of omega - 3 fatty acids, and countries that eat a lot of fish per capita (such as Japan) have lower rates of depression.

If we keep doing what we are doing now — as we relentlessly grow global economic production capabilities, adamantly condone skyrocketing absolute global human population numbers, and foolishly raise the level of per capita consumption of limited resources — are we not likely to keep getting what we are getting now?

What scientific evidence, sound reasoning or common sense explanation can provide a foundation for expanding unbridled economic globalization even one more day, for increasing unrestrained per capita consumption beyond its present conspicuous level for one more week, and for condoning the projected addition of 70 to 80 million members of the human community in this year alone?

If this is the case, India is likely to face a widening ecological deficit even if current per - capita levels of resource consumption remain the same.

The technology currently available for installing distributed renewable energy in developing countries can not yet raise all of the world's poorest to the levels of per capita energy consumption previously reached in the west, but developed countries are already reducing overall energy demand and increasing energy efficiency, rendering historical patterns of energy usage the wrong benchmark for global standards in any case.

If each nation had to reduce their ghg emissions only to conform to the rates described in the reduction curves in the above chart despite their steepness, it would lead to grossly unfair results because of great differences among countries in per capita and historical emissions levels and urgent needs to increase energy consumption to escape grinding poverty in poor developing countries.

It took two centuries for daily per capita carbon consumption in America to reach the roughly 100 - pound level that currently lights homes, powers industry, and keeps the Internet humming.

«It is obvious that India needs to substantially increase its per capita energy consumption to provide a minimally acceptable level of well - being to its people.»

Increase in Aquaculture Needed to Maintain Current Levels of Consumption The amount of fish currently discarded at sea (30 million tonnes annually) could sustain a 50 % increase in fish farming and aquaculture: An amount needed to maintain per capita fish consumption without increasing stress on marine Consumption The amount of fish currently discarded at sea (30 million tonnes annually) could sustain a 50 % increase in fish farming and aquaculture: An amount needed to maintain per capita fish consumption without increasing stress on marine consumption without increasing stress on marine ecosystems.

Our rates of resource consumption and environmental destruction are grossly unsustainable and there is no possibility that the per capita levels of resource use in rich countries can be kept up for long or spread to all the world's people.

Two scenarios of energy demand are explored, one holding per capita consumption at current levels, the second raising the global average in the year 2100 to the current U.S. level.

The levels of egg consumption (grams per capita per day) have doubled worldwide, with the increases more marked in developing countries compared with industrial countries.