Sentences with phrase «effects on food security»

Year - to - year climate variability in the form of drought or flooding already has large - scale effects on food security today.

Debates about biofuels tend to focus separately on estimates of adverse effects on food security, poverty, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions driven by land - use change (LUC)(1 — 4).

Such higher levels of warming would make it much more difficult for countries to keep the global temperature rise to below 2C, as they agreed to do at the landmark Paris climate summit last year, to avoid dangerous extreme weather and negative effects on food security.

This combination of melting glaciers, rising seas, and their effects on food security and low - lying coastal cities could overwhelm the capacity of governments to cope.

Since organic farming currently accounts for such a small percentage of global agricultural production, Crowder said its effect on food security is not an immediate concern.

These stresses are perhaps most evident in their effect on food security, which was the weak point of many earlier civilizations that collapsed.

Soil erosion and land degradation issues are local, but their effect on food security is global.

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This was my first real introduction to the effects of policy around food security; I found it extremely interesting and will endeavour to learn more on the subject.

Concerns have been raised about the potential effects of transgenic introductions on the genetic diversity of crop landraces and wild relatives in areas of crop origin and diversification, as this diversity is considered essential for global food security.

The insights into the effects of humankind on land, nature, food security, water and climate have been drawn in four assessments on Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe and Central Asia and a global assessment on Land Degradation and restoration.

Data on past climates are vital for researchers seeking to understand how anthropogenic climate change will affect Earth?s ecosystems and species, including its effects on infectious diseases and food security.

«People involved with these gardens are passionate about healthy eating, food security and helping people connect to where their food comes from,» says Ashley Chaifetz, lead author of a paper describing the work and its effect on school and community gardening practices.

Such events can cause injuries and emergency room visits, but the changing climate also has oblique effects on health, such as reducing food security, altering the range of disease - spreading ticks and mosquitoes and harming mental health.

While climate change in recent decades has been found to negatively affect crop yields in many regions, a new study led by Carnegie's Julia Pongratz is the first to examine the potential effect of geoengineering on food security.

Climate change effects on agriculture will have consequences for food security both in the U.S. and globally, not only through changes in crop yields, but also changes in the ways climate affects food processing, storage, transportation, and retailing.

At that time, climate change was already broadly recognized within the US defense and intelligence establishments as a threat to national and global security, particularly due to climate's effect on food production.

This guidance document provides some insight on the data and tools necessary when dealing with the analysis of the effects of Climate - Smart Agriculture (CSA) on food security, focusing on a gender perspective.

While there has been extensive research on the effects of climate change on food security, less well - known is the effect of climate change on food safety.

These reports present the results of a study during the second half of 2009 into the effects of the global financial crisis of 2008 on the food security of low and middle income populations in 5 cities: Rosario (Argentina), Bogota (Colombia), Accra (Ghana), Kitwe (Zambia) and Colombo (Sri Lanka).

It analyzes the effect of climatic shocks on food security for 77 developing countries from 1960 to 2008.

Because of the looming specter of climate change that is threatening to disrupt agriculture, we may find that energy policies will have an even greater effect on future food security than agricultural policies do.

These reports (2010) present the results of a study during the second half of 2009 into the effects of the global financial crisis of 2008 on the food security of low and middle income populations in 5 cities: Rosario (Argentina), Bogota (Colombia), Accra (Ghana), Kitwe (Zambia) and Colombo (Sri Lanka).

Own - growing makes an important contribution to food security in urban areas globally, but its effects on soil qualities that underpin ecosystem service provision are currently unknown.

The negative effects of global warming on humans may be most significant on food supplies and security.

• Rural areas — Negative effects of global warming on humans in rural areas occur through declines in water availability and supply, food security, and agricultural incomes.

«Much research has looked at food security, but little has focused on the wider health effects of agricultural production,» Dr Springmann says.

The impacts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on human health include the effects of air pollution on increased respiratory disease, the spread of vector - borne illnesses like cholera, malaria, and dengue fever due to changing weather patterns, and compromised agricultural production and food security leading to greater malnutrition.

Disaster risk management plays an increasingly key role in dealing with the effects of climate change on food security.

This also has a knock - on effect: As food security declines and poverty increases, these people will end up migrating to urban areas in search of work — further stressing areas already trying to adapt to changing climate and building enough infrastructure to accommodate these newcomers.

by Trudi Zundel With food security threatened throughout the developing world, the global community has been paying a lot more attention to the effect of climate change on agriculture.

Awareness on the effects of climate change and agriculture food security should be taken into consideration especially in developing countries.»

Heavily altered climatic cycles have a crippling effect on the livelihood of farmers and already marginalized agricultural workers, as well as upon the availability and security of food in the region.