Sentences with phrase «ensures food security for»

Optimal breastfeeding for the first 2 years of life is the single most effective intervention to prevent child deaths worldwide.1 Breastfeeding saves children's lives, supports their growth and development, preventsmalnutrition, ensures food security for infants, protects maternal and child health, reduces financial pressure on families, supports loving relationships and increases educational attainment.

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

«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.

«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 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.

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 report suggests ways forward for consolidating the global agendas of curbing climate change and ensuring food security for all.

If we restored 300 million of these 2 billion hectares of land, we can ensure food security for all by 2050.»

This is why SBSTA must consider the impacts of climate change across all scales of food production and find approaches to ensuring food security for all.

Not exact matches

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.

In tune with this global rhetoric, the United Front Government in its Common Minimum Program made eradication of poverty as its main emphasis along with a seven - point agenda for ensuring safe drinking water, primary education for all, primary health care, housing, food security, road networks and mid-day meals to be implemented by A.D. 2000.

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.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Dr. R.R.A. Wijekoon, Director General of Agriculture, Government of Sri Lanka, said «This will strengthen rice research development activities in the country especially to ensure food and nutrition security and sharing of global innovative technologies for the country's successful rice production.»

Food security is also recognized as being more than just providing people with enough calories to live on, but ensuring people have enough nutrients for optimal health too.

In establishing an international rice futures market, Singapore could also play an important part in helping the world achieve food security, keeping rice prices affordable for poor rice consumers, and ensuring its own supply of rice into the future.

Some did it for practical reasons, as a means to ensure better food, lodging, or security.

Strengthen government and citizens» actions that ensure adequate maternal nutrition and food security for all l Encourage production and use of appropriate indigenous complementary foods.

Ensure that the human rights to and the responsibility for food security, for good health and a safe environment, particularly for women and children, are fully observed in order to protect, promote and support breastfeeding, and sound infant and young child nutrition.

It is difficult for anyone familiar with the Nigerian economy to fault these objectives as well as the five execution priorities specified in the plan - stabilising the macroeconomic environment; achieving agriculture and food security; ensuring energy sufficiency in power and petroleum products; improving transportation infrastructure; and driving industrialization through SMEs.

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

While emphasizing that the south west holds the future of food security in Nigeria, Governor Ambode said the available massive arable and fertile land had placed the region on a sound footing to use agriculture not only to grow the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the region but also to ensure food availability for the country.

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.

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.»

«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.

She knows for sure that she is the child's mother, but she must ensure that the child's father will provide their offspring with food and the security and social status it needs.

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

Over the years, IRRI has conducted rigorous rice research as part of the mission to ensure food and nutrition security for future generations.

Important considerations here are that food security (and sovereignty) requires as much of the provisioning as possible to happen through localized production and consumption networks, that agriculture is based on organic, biologically diverse inputs, that the enormous waste of food characterizing the consumerist class is eliminated, and that for the extreme poor who do not have access to either the means of production or food itself, there needs to be rights - based schemes ensuring such access.

In the end, to achieve sustainable food security we will probably need many different techniques — including organic, conventional, and possible «hybrid» systems — to produce more food at affordable prices, ensure livelihoods for farmers, and reduce the environmental costs of agriculture....

Parties shall, when pursuing actions in the land sector in addition to actions in other sectors and consistent with all relevant international obligations, prioritise the protection, maintenance and restoration of natural ecosystems; undertake emissions reductions and removals in an equitable manner; and the governing body shall develop principles and guidelines for ensuring social protections, food security, ecological integrity, transparency and comparability in relation to such actions.

The booklet sets out an analytical framework for understanding the water - energy - food security nexus in the Arab region and considers the linkages that affect the achievement of water, energy and food security and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a view to mitigating climate change and ensuring access to food, water and sustainable energy for all.

This brochure presents World Food Day on 16 October 2016, which promotes worldwide awareness and action for those who suffer from hunger and for the need to ensure food security and nutritious diets for Food Day on 16 October 2016, which promotes worldwide awareness and action for those who suffer from hunger and for the need to ensure food security and nutritious diets for food security and nutritious diets for all.

Action is urgently needed now to reduce vulnerability and increase resilience of food systems to ensure food security and good nutrition for all.

The G8 pledge to ensure that biofuel policies are compatible with food security comes in the wake of the leaked World Bank report that the push for biofuels accounts for 75 % of the food crisis by competing with food crops for agricultural land.

The potential for both sequestration and emissions reductions in the AFOLU sector is thus large, but it must be ensured that AFOLU mitigation does not compromise adaptation, food security or other social and environmental safeguards.

Subtitle B: USDA Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction and Sequestration Advisory Committee -(Sec. 531) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish an independent USDA Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction and Sequestration Advisory Committee to provide scientific and technical advice on establishing, implementing, and ensuring the overall environmental integrity of an offset program for domestic agriculture and forestry practices that reduce or avoid GHG emissions or sequester GHGs.

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.

The summit is convened by Governments of Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and India, that will lead to adoption and endorsement of next 10 years climate change adaptation road map to ensure food, water, energy security vis - à - vis maintaining biodiversity for the region.

Adaptation outcomes focusing on ensuring food security under a changing climate could have the most direct benefits on livelihoods, which have multiple benefits for food security, including: enhancing food production, access to markets and resources, and reduced disaster risk.

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.

For example, the rapid growth in use of crops for biofuels to ensure energy security in the face of soaring petrol prices, not only reduced food availability, but also drove millions of people off the land and contributed to food riots in 30 countries around the worFor example, the rapid growth in use of crops for biofuels to ensure energy security in the face of soaring petrol prices, not only reduced food availability, but also drove millions of people off the land and contributed to food riots in 30 countries around the worfor biofuels to ensure energy security in the face of soaring petrol prices, not only reduced food availability, but also drove millions of people off the land and contributed to food riots in 30 countries around the world.

The analytical framework considers the linkages that affect the achievement of water, energy and food security through the lens of sustainable development and the achievement of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, with a view to mitigating climate change and ensuring access to food, water and sustainable energy for all in the context of a human - rights approach.

He also says that GMO crops are not exactly renowned for their high yields and that one of the ways to ensuring food security is to allow farmers to save seed, something Monsanto takes a dim view of.

You need to make sure you're being paid a fair wage for your labor and level of education and that this amount of money will ensure that you have access to the basics of life, such as housing, food, clothing, healthcare, and especially enough to offer a sense of security so you can enjoy some free time away from work.

Professional Duties & Responsibilities Managed all daily operations of military dining facility serving over 180,000 meals annually Responsible for equipment and facility valued at more than $ 2 million Oversaw food inventory and orders of approximately $ 720,000 annually Designed and implemented daily menu, 1,500 line items, and 48 ethnic dishes Trained, directed, and reviewed kitchen and service staff Maintained 98 % customer satisfaction rate for both food service and meal quality Collected customer feedback and designed strategies to improve client experience Ensured 100 % compliance with all applicable FDA food safety regulations Performed approximately 200 facility inspections and staff evaluations Programmed and repaired cash registers to guarantee accurate financial operations Authored and presented meal, service, personnel, and financial reports for senior leadership Devoted free time to honing skills and assuming additional duties Assisted base with security operations, logistics, inventory, and other tasks as needed Completed all assignments in a professional and positive manner Created an atmosphere of respect and devotion to team goals Received exemplary reviews resulting in consistent promotions ahead of schedule

Director of Operations — Duties & Responsibilities Manage daily operation, finances and personnel of US Army dining facilities in domestic and international forums Responsible for facility and equipment valued in excess of $ 570,000 Train and supervise large staff ensuring efficient and effective food service operations Design and implement staff workflows, program policies, and meal preparation / service procedures Plan and execute breakfast, lunch, and dinner for more than 3,000 soldiers and civilians Create healthy and enjoyable menus in accordance with national nutrition standards Ensure strict compliance with all applicable health and safety regulations Oversee food / equipment inventory and orders ensuring cost effective operations Coordinate special events, field kitchens, and other special projects as assigned Manage all new construction and modification to facilities and equipment Prepare and present reports concerning finances, client satisfaction, and nutrition for senior leadership Utilize extensive military training to manage security of facilities, assets and personnel in hostile territory Consistently promoted for excellence in team leadership, dedication, professionalism, and integrity