Sentences with phrase «current food crises»

The researchers say the study raises concern that current pressures on farmland from population growth and climate change could worsen current food crises by leading to similar events in other regions.

It is also clear about the solution, stating that agroecology, within a food sovereignty framework, offers us a collective path through the current food crisis.

Mr Bruce added that the international community had no choice but to look beyond the current food crisis and address the long - term factors.

The current food crisis is an uncomfortable foreshadowing of what may happen to the world's political stability if we fail to do so.

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 current food crisis we are facing is not one of production, the authors argue, but one of waste.

Not exact matches

Another way that the current crisis hurts those at the bottom of the economic ladder was revealed in a conversation with Lucy Luna, a United Food and Commercial Workers union organizer among immigrant farm workers in the Fraser Valley, who notes that the reduced value of the Canadian dollar means that the remittances sent home to Mexico by the «guest workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut in half in value by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S. dollar.

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.

The current Brazilian crisis has led to a slowdown and even a retraction in the volume growth of many food categories, mainly among those that are not considered priorities, like chocolate and sugar confectionery.

«Current policies on biofuels and trade lie behind the global food crisis.

We hope you can help us out during our current food shortage crisis!

It is estimated, for example, that none of the [Millennium Development Goals] targets will be met in sub-Saharan Africa if current trends continue, and this is before account is taken of the real effects of the recent crises in food and energy, the rapid increase in impacts of climate change, and the major implications of a global economic slowdown.»

Throughout the day, the current global food crisis provided as useful rationale for more food to be grown in cities.The day was split into a series of sessions focusing in on opportunities to increase the amount of food being grown in London and what urban agriculture projects are currenty running in the capital.

Steiner said governments and individuals should not ignore climate change because of current crises over soaring food and oil prices.

This technique has some far - fetched assumptions baked in (such as finding banks that will take 60 cents on the dollar for performing notes, on the theory that the borrower MIGHT just stop paying on his underwater mortgage), but does at least attempt to exploit the crazy aspects of the current foreclosure crisis, so sure it's food for thought.