Sentences with phrase «current global food production»

China's growth trends, if continued to 2030, would mean using: 30 % more oil than current global production, and 2/3 of current global food production.

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This could play a role in reducing global health problems caused by the current food production value chain.

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.

So does the food system, once you get away from growing food [in] oil which is our current preoccupation and one that isn't going to last much longer, the need for local production and control and whatever food has the same, and I was trying to argue at the end I think much the same thing is sort of happening with culture as well, that we have simultaneously this incredibly interesting global thing, the Internet and it's allowing you to live very locally and globally at the same time.

A new study, published today in Nature Climate Change, suggests that — if current trends continue — food production alone will reach, if not exceed, the global targets for total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2050.

By 2025 water scarcity will cut global food production by more than the current U.S. grain harvest.

Whether it is the unanimous opinion by scientists regarding the 18 - year «global warming» pause; or the last 9 years for the complete lack of major hurricanes; or the inexplicable and surprisingly thick Antarctic sea ice; or the boring global sea level rise that is a tiny fraction of coastal - swamping magnitude; or food crops exploding with record production; or multiple other climate signals - it is now blatantly obvious the current edition of the AGW hypothesis is highly suspect.

The scope of this chapter, with a focus on food crops, pastures and livestock, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry (commercial forests), aquaculture and fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculturalists and artisanal fishers, is to: examine current climate sensitivities / vulnerabilities; consider future trends in climate, global and regional food security, forestry and fisheries production; review key future impacts of climate change in food crops pasture and livestock production, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry, fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculture; assess the effectiveness of adaptation in offsetting damages and identify adaptation options, including planned adaptation to climate change; examine the social and economic costs of climate change in those sectors; and, explore the implications of responding to climate change for sustainable development.

His current research includes a global assessment of the sustainability of future food production under socioeconomic and climate change, and water scarcity.