Sentences with phrase «to ensure food security»

Vision: united and transformed agriculture, forestry and fisheries sector that ensures food security for all and economic prosperity.

Could this help ensure food security in an uncertain future?

The document also suggest ensuring food security in the face of climate change is among the most daunting challenges facing humankind.

«Let me say this clearly: we can not ensure food security or sustainable development without preserving and using forest resources responsibly.»

They then export their surpluses to the rest of the world, undercutting the millions of small farmers who actually do ensure food security and bombarding consumers with unhealthy processed foods.

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This will benefit the economy, help ensure food security, and allow the ocean to be used sustainably, profitably, and enjoyably, for this and future generations.

Given limited land suitable for crop production and population soon to exceed 9 billion, ensuring food security while protecting carbon - rich and biodiverse rainforests, wetlands, and grasslands depends on achieving highest possible yields on existing farm land.

This infographic on the actions that need to be prioritized to improve the adaptive capacity in agriculture sectorsto ensure food security and build resilience against climate change impacts.

Forests provide essential services in reducing poverty, providing energy and ensuring food security across the world, yet government policies fail to harness these benefits, said the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation.

For Brazil, international climate negotiations should not be focused on discussing REDD and other market - based mechanisms, but rather on the transition to a new production, distribution and consumption model based on agroecology, on a solidarity - based economic approach, and on a diversified and decentralized energy matrix capable of ensuring food security and sovereignty.

For the Green Belt Movement which has empowered communities to conserve the environment forover 37 years, ensuring food security at household level is vital to having improved livelihoods, economic empowerment and build resilience against climate change in the rural Kenya.

Co-author Professor Garry Russ adds «Networks of marine reserves on coral reefs are a central strategy for ensuring food security for millions of people in the Coral Triangle region, just to the north of Australia.

«The 3000 genomes will help us explore new genes needed to create new adaptive varieties; this is becoming increasingly important to sustain rice productivity and to ensure food security under the impact of climate change,» says Hei Leung, a plant geneticist at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Los Baños, the Philippines, and one of the scientists involved in the project.

The well - funded dairy lobby spends a great deal of money (an estimated $ 80 to $ 100 million each year — ironically paid for by the higher prices consumers pay), persuading federal and provincial politicians that supply management «protects the family farm,» «ensures food security» and that, because these farmers are so numerous, doing anything to upset them would be political suicide.

They say: «excessive use of pesticides are very dangerous to human health, to the environment and it is misleading to claim they are vital to ensuring food security.»

In order to ensure food security, good nutrition, and a sense of belonging for this vulnerable population, investments in communal gardens for refugees should be considered as an innovative solution.

MASIPAG further asserts that the solution to hunger and malnutrition lies in comprehensive approaches to ensure food security and not thru market or profit - oriented approaches.

The overall purpose of the GSF is to provide a dynamic instrument to enhance the role of the CFS as a platform to improve cooperation, catalyze coordinated action and provide guidance towards effective and synergized partnerships in support of global, regional and country - led plans and processes designed to prevent future food crises, eliminate hunger and ensure food security and nutrition for all human beings.

«To ensure food security for every child, woman and man, we must intensify food production while at the same time address the problems of distribution, and end shocking levels of food spoilage and loss.

However, it is talking of the challenges ahead and ensuring their people are well and safely fed and that agricultural land is protected and productive to ensure food security.»

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«We want to upgrade and scale up this project where necessary and key it into our Agro Tourism drive and effort to ensure food security for our people,» Governor Ambode said.

He said the Planting for Food and Jobs policy was a flagship programme of the government to increase food production and ensure food security.

He said in addition to ensuring the safety of lives and property, the Federal Government is committed to ensuring food security for the country's growing population, and the transformation of the national economy.

Speaking at the handing over ceremony at Yikene, the Upper East Regional Minister, James Zuugah Tiigah commended the company for the innovative initiative which will go a long way to ensure food security and further reduce poverty among over 200 households.

The commissioner noted that the price of the rice had not changed, adding that the government would continue to ensure food security and promote Nigeria as a producing nation.

International development agencies believe that breeding new crops is important for ensuring food security and developing practices through the development of crops suitable for their environment.

To ensure food security, irrigation should be encouraged wherever and whenever it is environmentally sustainable, so the key is to improve the spatial and temporal allocation of water used for irrigation.»

«Agroforestry can ensure food security, mitigate effects of climate change in Africa.»

The LiDAR survey also showed that the medieval settlements at Phnom Kulen and Koh Ker had extensive hydraulic engineering on a scale comparable to Angkor, showing a much wider reliance on water management systems «to ameliorate annual - scale variation in monsoon rains and ensure food security,» the team reports.

«PhDs prepare the medical doctors for a healthy society; the engineers to build the roads, bridges, dams, hospitals and schools; the agriculturalists to ensure food security; the educators to shape the next generation of teachers, not to mention economists, lawyers, scientists, business specialists — all contributing to the development of a «knowledge» society,» he writes.

Healthier diets and reducing food waste are part of a combination of solutions needed to ensure food security and avoid dangerous climate change, say the team behind a new study.

Collectively, these findings could be valuable in breeding plants for warm climates and ensuring food security.»

The ultimate goal should be to use the limited resource «land «in a way that it ensures food security..

The initiative, brokered by UNCCD Global Mechanism and managed by Mirova, brings together project leaders, land users and investors to promote healthy land as an investment in the future that can create green jobs, ensure food security and help address the effects of climate change.

This approach can ensure food security, alleviate rural poverty and hunger and build resistance to major environmental challenges.

Your support helps to conserve soil and ensure food security, to sustain rural community's livelihoods, and build resilience to climate change.

«Pollinators like monarchs provide essential services that ensure food security and farmland health.»

Nonetheless, it is deeply troubling that we are screwing up our natural systems so badly that we have to resort to developing «bubbles» of stability in order to ensure our food security.

Policy makers and agriculture scientists and environmental scientists should put in place policies to reduce atmospheric temperature increase and pollution to benefit from CO2 fertilization in order to ensure food security.

These efforts will avert any likely agrarian distress due to changing climatic conditions and will also safeguard the efforts of government to ensure food security and alleviate poverty.

A number of studies have been undertaken that show that resource - poor farmers and communities use a variety of coping and adaptive mechanisms to ensure food security and sustainable livelihoods in the face of climate change and variability (see also Table 9.2).

These evidence indicate that drought will upset the government's efforts of increasing agricultural production, ensuring food security and controlling food inflation.