Sentences with phrase «to enhance food security»

To gauge the remarkable benefits of such systems, start with this peer - reviewed study of solar irrigation projects in Africa's dry zone led by Jennifer Burney of the University of California, San Diego, and Stanford: «Solar - powered drip irrigation enhances food security in the Sudano — Sahel.»

Suarau said Ambode's administration has embarked on agricultural policies and programmes aimed at enhancing food security in the State.

A relevant paper, published in 2010 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is: «Solar - powered drip irrigation enhances food security in the Sudano — Sahel.»]

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, who led other senior members of his administration to Zurich, Switzerland, where the deal was sealed, said that the development was in furtherance of his vision of enhancing food security and creating employment in the state.

Indeed, as our last post on the importance of soils in the carbon cycle persuasively informs us, regenerative argicultural practices can offer win - win - win benefits of revitalizing rural economies, reducing atmospheric carbon, and of course enhancing food security.

COTAP's community - owned carbon offset projects serve and connect key UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal 1 — ending poverty, and Goal 13 — taking action on climate change; as well as enhancing food security, fighting deforestation, boosting sustainable growth and employment, and protecting ecosystems and biodiversity.

Suarau said the state government has completed an agreement to acquire and establish a 32 tonnes per hour rice mill with AG («Bühler»), a leading rice - mill producer in the world stressing that the establishment of the rice mill is targeted at enhancing food security and creating employment in the State.

The results of this participatory approach, presented in Nature this week, may help to close yield gaps - differences between farmers» actual yields and those thought to be attainable in a given region - and enhance food security in other parts of the world, the authors propose.

«Reducing food waste benefits communities by sending less food to landfill, lowering greenhouse gas emissions, reducing the resources required to meet food demand, and enhancing food security,» said Kathleen McLaughlin, chief sustainability officer, Wal - Mart Stores, Inc., and president of the Walmart Foundation.

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) conducts research to provide innovative, evidence - based policy solutions to enhance food security and fight poverty.

They also included ways to mitigate food waste and enhance food security.

It's going to be a massive production to enhance food security and wealth creation.»

Ajimobi said the agricultural sector that has been neglected for long on what he described as «black gold» should be revamped to enhance food security, reduce importation of food items and engage able - bodied citizens who are presently either out rightly unemployed or under - employed.

Ambode made this known over the weekend during inspection of the project alongside top government officials, he said government will come up with strategies and policies to upgrade the farm and put it to optimal use with the view to keying it into the efforts of government to enhance food security, among other drives.

«We want to be able to manage some of these interactions, too, to enhance food security.»

China investment reinforces Elanco's commitment to China's efforts to ensure food safety and enhance food security and rural income.

Jointly with Cooperazione Internazionale (COOPI, Italy), the RUAF Foundation implemented the EU - funded project «Enhancing food security and development opportunities for disadvantaged groups in Freetown, Sierra Leone»; the project established youth - led agroenterprises and enhanced food security for most disadvantaged groups through local production of nutritious food.

Foundation implemented the EU - funded project «Enhancing food security and development opportunities for disadvantaged groups in Freetown, Sierra Leone»; the project

This resource offers recipes from six least developed countries and small island developing states (Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Haiti, Mali, Niger and Sudan) to strengthen climate resilience and enhance food security.

But it is possible to return most of the atmospheric carbon increase to vegetation and soils in ways that improve agricultural productivity, enhance food security, conserve biodiversity and create more flood and drought tolerant food production systems.

Rebuilding the organic content — and thus productivity — of soils in cropping and grazing lands conserves soil and water, drought proofs communities, reduces downstream flooding and erosion, restores environments and biodiversity and enhances food security.

Urban agriculture contributes to enhanced food security and improved nutrition of the urban poor and other vulnerable groups.

As well as enhancing food security, carbon sequestration has the potential to offset fossilfuel emissions by 0.4 to 1.2 gigatons of carbon per year, or 5 to 15 % of the global fossil - fuel emissions.

Severe weather variability has affected harvests around the world but the many of the tools to enhance food security are within our grasp.

This activity report presents initial results from projects initiated in Eastern Africa in 2012, highlighting an increase in farmers» resilience to climate variability, as well as enhanced food security.

It would conserve soil and water, restore environments and biodiversity, enhance food security and increase global wealth and societal resilience.