Sentences with phrase «demands of a growing population»

Food production will need to double by 2050 to meet the rising demands of a growing population and growing income.77 78 Coupled with the supply constraints discussed under A less predictable planet, and the high levels of food waste and food loss, value chains are being forced to become more efficient.

The additions are expected to meet the demands of a growing population and will allow the towns to limit or remove summer water restrictions.

While many recent studies have documented that agricultural producers must significantly increase yields in order to meet the food, feed, and fuel demands of a growing population, few have given practical solutions on how to do this.

He also undertook larger irrigation and drainage schemes in the vicinity, a policy to which subsequent kings must have been committed by the magical powers they were supposed to exercise over the Nile flood, and by the demands of a growing population.

We are going to have to increase food and timber production to meet the demand of a growing population, but we know we must do so in a way that addresses climate change.»

The good news, however, is that we have been able to continue to grow our economy and meet the demands of growing populations, with less and less water, through smart technology, regulations, education, and water conservation and efficiency programs.

The open air complex was built to meet the demand of the growing population of Coral Springs and Parkland, an affluent municipality with about 31,000 residents.

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In fact, a recent survey found that 86.5 million Americans — 42 percent of the adult population — had used at least one on - demand service, and some 45 million Americans, roughly 22 percent of the adult population, had reported having worked in the growing on - demand economy.

«That implies plenty of room to grow because as the population ages, the demand for medicines will increase.»

In the long run most analysts expect demand for potash to increase, as a growing global population looks to maximize yields from its shrinking pool of arable farmland.

Moreover, single adults are a growing part of the American population, so demand for individually portioned products is increasing as more people dine by themselves.

Although the growing share of the elderly population means that demand for this segment of telehealth will grow, the increasing capabilities of remote patient monitoring devices, like fitness trackers and smartwatches, and mHealth apps will likely cause many of these designated devices to fold into the other segments of telehealth.

As the world's population grows, the demand for all forms of energy will increase, including demand for oil and natural gas.

Clark's script blamed the housing crisis on a shortage of supply, growing population and demand, consumers with double the borrowing power they had in 2000, and millennials «who are greater in number than even the baby boomers — and who are now entering the housing market for the first time — and they aren't happy.»

With a global population that is growing bigger, older, and richer, demand for the type of life - prolonging, life - improving, and life - saving therapeutics that Amgen develops and manufactures is only likely to grow.

«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»

At the same time as the growing population, by creating demands for more of nature's products, gives impetus to industry and commerce, it creates the problem of shortages and throws into clear relief the limitations of the earth.

Since then agriculture, which employs more than 60 percent of the country's population, has stagnated, but the services sector has grown as corporate demand has increased in Europe and America for India's software engineers and English - speaking back - office workers.!

As the world population grows, farmers will not only need to meet increasing demands of food, but also keep nutritional values high.

«With exponential population growth through 2050, rising middle class growth and increasing demand for protein, it will be an incredible challenge to meet the nutritional needs of a growing planet,» Wagner says.

Numerous reports have emphasized the need for major changes in the global food system: agriculture must meet the twin challenge of feeding a growing population, with rising demand for meat and high - calorie diets, while simultaneously minimizing its global environmental impacts1, 2.

The prominence of coffeehouse - style coffee from the West, especially among younger generations in Asia — crowd which includes 60 % of the global youth population — indicates the demand for Arabica coffee could grow exponentially along with the purchasing power of this demographic.

To deliver this self - optimising performance and increased long - term value, it combines intelligent automation with innovative technologies of connected machines and data - analytics management, leading to optimised production and maintenance services.Consumer preferences are broadening and overall demand is increasing due to unprecedented population growth, increased consumer spending power and growing demand for personalisation of products in terms of design and taste.

Factors such as population growth, growing demand for automation and machinery optimisation, as well as a rise in e-commerce is fuelling this development,» said Jorge Izquierdo, VP of Market Development at PMMI.

The National Association of Retail Grocers of Australia recently highlighted that Australia's food and grocery industry is «at a crossroads» as population - driven demand grows faster than food production, pointing to challenges ahead for sustainable development.1 Water is one of the most significant and increasingly scarce resources that producers need to meet this demand.

Moreover, in the event of non-exploitation of unconventional hydrocarbon resources, the growing population and the increased demand for gas will become more incompatible with the necessary exports of hydrocarbons from the country.

The Regional manager however said the company is injecting more transformers into the system to beef up power supply and be at length with the growing demand of power in the region, he said «there is an increased demand of power from our growing population in the region so we have started injecting a number of transformers in some areas in the region to help solve the increased demand and also eradicate the problem of low voltage which affects our customers in the Region, we have installed a number of these transformers and we will continue to install more in 2017 to meet the growing needs as they come.»

With the drawdown of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, the population in the area will grow even further, increasing the demand.

According to White, the District needs space because of growing demands from the student population.

Differential NHS inflation, a growing aged population that makes disproportionate health and social care demands, and an abundance of advances in ever more expensive medical technology, will take an even greater toll on NHS budgets during the next Parliament.

Rainfall shifts caused by climate change plus the escalating water demands of a growing world population threaten society's ability to meet its mounting needs.

The most pressing problems we face today are «rooted in the demands and stresses placed on our planet's natural systems by a population of 7 billion growing toward 9,» Sullivan said.

«Today's primary care environment requires managing complex immunization schedules and meeting the growing demands of caring for a large and often sick patient population,» says lead author Cameron G. Shultz, Ph.D., M.S.W., of U-M's Department of Family Medicine.

«We have a limited amount of water in this country to use for everything from drinking water to raising livestock, and global population and demand is growing,» said Sandia geochemist Pat Brady.

Nevertheless, the demand side grows fastly with booming population growth and urbanization, while the supply side is more endangered with increasing water scarcity due to global change, limited phosphorus reserves and vast amounts of energy required for nitrogen production.

«It is unlikely that historically low rates of deforestation can persist in the face of growing pressures to clear land due to increases in population, demand for wood and charcoal, cropping with reduced fallow periods leading to soil degradation, and international interests in large scale land investments for oil, biofuel and other crops,» the study states.

Addressing water risks Maintaining global food security, feeding growing populations and satisfying the demand of water - intensive diets are all tasks that will require significantly more water for agriculture and food production activities in coming years5.

«Growing populations and economic development are exponentially increasing the demand for refrigeration and air conditioning,» says Helena Molin Valdés, head of the United Nations's (UN's) Climate & Clean Air Coalition Secretariat in Paris.

«The population of the world's tropical regions will soon exceed that of the rest of the world, and this discovery may be important in growing food to meet future demand.»

And with appetite on the rise thanks to expanding population size and growing numbers of people in the developing world who can afford chocolate, demand may outstrip supply in the near future.

Researchers report that as the world population increases and food demand has grown, globalization of trade has made the food supply more sensitive to environmental and market fluctuations.

The legion of social scientists, community planners, and businesses that uses data from the once - a-decade head count of the U.S. population say it was an unreasonable demand given inflation and a growing and more mobile population.

Developing therapeutic cell populations from human ES cells will be far more demanding: cells will have to be stable, predictable, pure, have proven functionality, be nontumor - forming, and be «scalable» — capable of growing in very large numbers.

Despite this, a variety of structural weaknesses have led to a situation where India's health system performance is unable to cope with the enormous demands placed on it by the country's growing population.

Nonetheless, with rising sea level and environmental refugeeism compounding the increased demand on water, food, and land of a growing population (albeit one likely to level out mid 21st century), the combined impacts of climate change and global population increase could potentially yield a world that doesn't look that different from the one portrayed in the movie — indeed, as Jim Hansen puts it, «a different planet» — by century's end.

A growing world population demands greater quantities and higher qualities of agricultural products.

But the ocean is under threat, stressed by careless lifestyles and the increasing demands of a growing global population.

In the 19th Century, as American's urban population grew and the demand for wild meat increased, thousands of men became full - time pigeon hunters.

As demand grew through word - of - mouth recounts of transformational sessions, they knew it was time to bring their work to the greater population; to expand their caravan and bring more wellness to the world.

And with about 65 percent of the human population having trouble digesting lactose, according to the National Institutes of Health, an ever - growing number of nondairy substitutes — including almond, coconut, hemp, rice, soy, and sunflower seed milk — are increasingly in demand.