Sentences with phrase «face food shortages»

The same small change in temperature, however, would reduce food production at lower latitudes, where many countries already face food shortages.

Babies who receive poor nutrition in the womb, the theory goes, can expect to face food shortages after birth as well, and their metabolism is programmed to be especially thrifty with the calories they do receive.

The drying regions will face food shortages.

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The last time the world faced food shortages on a global basis, agricultural scientists produced the green revolution.

Local settled groups that speak a similar dialect report that the tribe faces food shortages, according to Peruvian news reports.

Major crop losses have caused huge financial hits to farmers and left some 3.5 million people facing food shortages, the agency reported.

The new reality is that if the world is facing water shortages, it is also facing food shortages.

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Urban water systems in Johannesburg are also experiencing severe difficulties in satisfying demand and Zimbabwe is facing food shortages andpotential loss of hydropower from Zambian hydroelectric plants.

Not exact matches

Whole Foods is facing a crush of food shortages in stores that's leading to empty shelves, furious customers, and frustrated employees.

Faced with labor shortages, the U.S. food system would experience supply constraints that could result in higher prices and force the country to look beyond its own borders for more of its food supply.

Either the economy would move to markets based on supply and demand, or it would face devastating shortages of food and other critical goods, with massive black markets and corruption.

A country is officially experiencing famine when one in five homes face extreme food shortages with little ability to cope.

Operators are facing four big areas of challenge that Technomic sees as transformative, bound to drive changes in how operators approach business: 1) coping with supply chain challenges, including driver shortages; 2) meeting consumer demand for «food with integrity»; 3) dealing with «regulation nation» where industry - disrupting changes may include a higher minimum wage; and 4) incorporating innovations into operations, including new delivery models, variable pricing, self - ordering systems, and robotics.

Hurricane Maria has left 3.4 million Puerto Ricans facing shortages of food, health care and transit, an American humanitarian crisis fueled by the US territory's May 2017 bankruptcy.

«A projected 5.1 million people will face serious food shortages as the conflict and risk of unexploded improvised devices prevented farmers planting for a third year in a row, causing a major food crisis,» the UN said on December 2.

Some four million people in South Sudan are likely to face critical food shortages next month, British aid agencies have warned.

At the same time, CSIRO is also crafting lower - tech programs for farmers in nearby developing countries, which may face severe food shortages due to crop failures and even widespread famine as the weather heats up, water dries up, and population explodes.

These seabirds live in a harsh environment and often face stress in the form of food shortages and poor weather conditions.

A famine is declared when at least 20 percent of households in an area face extreme food shortages with a limited ability to cope; acute malnutrition rates exceed 30 percent; and the death rate exceeds two people per 10,000 per day.

These biodegradable particles could be the basis for reduced risk conventional pesticide products that have the potential to reduce the amount of chemicals used in plant protection by as much as 90 percent, save farmers more than 25 percent on pest - control initiatives and, in a world facing looming food shortages, help increase crop yields for more and better food.

Such extremes have led to millions facing food and water shortages, as well as thousands of deaths globally, pointing to the need to not only mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, but to also invest in adaptation and improving the forecast systems of developing countries, Taalas said in his forward to the report.

They make their way to Umuahia, where they struggle to survive and take care of their daughter and Ugwu — the houseboy — in the face of increasing shortages of food and medicine.

(AKA Soylent Green) by Harry Harrison < br / > Harry Harrison's 1966 novel about an overcrowded urban society facing food and space shortages, became the inspiration for 1973 movie, Soylent Green.

We currently care for more than 40 African penguins in our Cold Water Quest gallery, but did you know their counterparts in the wild are facing harmful challenges such as oil spills, food shortages and habitat degradation?

Each Survival Piece reflected a thoroughly researched forward - thinking proposal for sustainable urban farming in the face of, what the Harrisons» anticipated, a future where climate change and subsequent food shortages would be inevitable.

Since these countries face problems of childhood deaths and food shortages the idea of paying extra money for energy causes a lot of problems since it leads to a lot of things like fertilizer costing more.

Keith Bradsher and Andrew Martin have a sobering story in The Times showing declines in funding for agricultural development assistance and basic research even as the world's poorest regions face spiking prices and shortages of basic foods.

Consider the possibility that not just millions, but billions face disastrous consequences from the likes of (including but not limited to): Sandy (and other hybrid and out - of - season storms enhanced by the earth's circulatory eccentricities and warmer oceans); the drought in progress; wildfires; floods (just last week, Argentina had 16 inches of rain in 2 hours *); derechos; increased cold and snow in the north as the Arctic melts and cracks up, breaking up the Arctic circulation and sending cold out of what was previously largely a contained system, and losing its own consistent cold, seriously interfering with the Jet Stream, pollution of multiple kinds such as in China, the increase of algae and the like in our oceans as they heat, and food and water shortages.

«Our two children, now in their mid thirties, face the second half of their lives in a world wracked by severe weather, plagues, food shortages, civil unrest and loss of biodiversity.

Perhaps by the end of the century half a billion people will face severe food and fresh water shortages because of past emissions.

The world faces widespread food shortages due to global warming.

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They now face three severe problems: They have a food and water shortage.

In any case, the historic agreement is welcome news for Venezuelans, who have been facing severe shortages of food, medicine, and other basic necessities.