Sentences with phrase «cause food crisis»

The principle factor that encourages people to leave their homes in the country side is the frequent recurrence of natural disasters, which undermine agricultural development and cause food crisis.

In 2007 and 2008, the swift increase in biofuel production caused a food crisis that incited political instability and fueled malnutrition.

''... destroying the livelihood of European farmers, disrupting the international food supply, and potentially causing a food crisis in Europe.»

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I guess that in a world where 39,000 children die each day from preventable disease, where around 90,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq, where the current global food crisis causes a child to die every seven seconds, where 47 million Americans can not afford basic healthcare, and where women and children continue to be murdered in Darfur — nothing says «God is pro-life» better than a bunch of wet democrats.

«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.

Research on the causes of obesity, though valuable, will not solve this public health crisis; what may, is behavioral science, which tells us how to change our habits and our «food environment.»

The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse

The food chemicals break the gut (insulin) and this is the cause of the diabetes and obesity crisis

In a 2010 article in Harper's Magazine, Frederick Kaufman argued the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index caused a demand shock in wheat and a contango market on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, contributing to the 2007 — 2008 world food price crisis.

In 2007, an international pet food crisis caused dogs and cats to suffer kidney failure and even death after eating foods containing wheat gluten contaminated with melamine.

In addition, our world is currently the sad witness of energy crises and speculation, of health disorders caused by the overabundance of food in some places and by famine elsewhere, and of old diseases in a new form as a result of antibiotic - resistant microbia.

This analytical report looks at how the key causes of the current food crisis are the combined effects of speculation in food stocks, extreme weather events, low cereal stocks, growth in biofuels competing for cropland and high oil prices.

The recent dramatic losses of thousands of honey bee colonies due to colony collapse disorder (CCD) and other causes [6], [7] has not only created great concerns in the scientific and agricultural community but has also highlighted the ever increasing risk of future crises in the global food supply due to our sole dependence on single pollinator species [8].

El Nino gained fame as it caused a severe food crisis in Southern and Eastern Africa.

CFS has four stated goals, which promote organic agriculture by restricting traditional farming methods: «Ensuring the testing, labeling and regulation of genetically engineered (GE) foods; Preserving strict national organic food standards; Preventing potential animal and human health crises caused by food borne illness — including «mad cow» disease; Educating the public on the hazards of industrial agriculture.»

This crisis is compounded not only by many other environmental problems caused by industrialised agriculture — loss of biodiversity, pollution, over-use of water and land, to name but a few — but also by escalating health problems caused by industrialised food production — including obesity, cardiovascular diseases, some cancers, and diabetes — alongside continuing problems of hunger and malnutrition, worldwide.

He highlights that while population growth may exacerbate the environmental and food crises, the causes are much more complex, including consumption levels, technology, trade, economic and agricultural policies, as well as values and aspirations.

Both situations, paradoxically, cause water and food crises, as water sources either dry up or become contaminated and crops die.

Droughts in Africa, Ukraine, India cause world food crisis, spreading fears about climate change.

By using lawyers to solve legal problems that can cause illness — from fixing faulty furnaces to navigating immigration rules that may make patients afraid to apply for food or housing assistance — doctors believe they can prevent more serious health crises, such as malnutrition, job loss, and domestic violence.»

Supporting the cryptocurrency endeavor championed by the same criminals who caused the crisis will not provide the food and medicine Venezuelan citizens desperately need to survive.