Sentences with phrase «feeding growing populations»

Addressing water risks Maintaining global food security, feeding growing populations and satisfying the demand of water - intensive diets are all tasks that will require significantly more water for agriculture and food production activities in coming years5.

«The challenge of feeding growing populations healthily while minimising environmental damage - particularly as food and fuel prices continue to rise - should remind governments that this is not a time to step away from tackling our food system,» he said.

In the past century success in feeding a growing population depended in large part on doubling cropland and a five-fold increase in irrigated land.

Ranchers work hard to feed a growing population, while reducing water use, care for the land, and protect the environment.

Today, many DuPont businesses contribute to the issue of feeding a growing population and the strain that it places on our planet.

«Only by working together can we feed a growing population.»

Numerous reports have emphasized the need for major changes in the global food system: agriculture must meet the twin challenge of feeding a growing population, with rising demand for meat and high - calorie diets, while simultaneously minimizing its global environmental impacts1, 2.

Given the remaining land capacity on earth and the maximum efficiency of existing farms and the environmental impacts of farming, we can not rely on increased farming to feed the growing population.

Since its founding in 1971, the UAE has been highly dependent on imports to feed its growing population.

Some may be hesitant to embrace meat industry giants like Tyson getting involved in the plant - based sector, but we are reaching a time where the question of how we are going to feed a growing population that is set to reach nine billion by 2050 can not be ignored.

At DuPont, we're putting science to work in the food and beverage industry — improving the nutritional value of food, ensuring food safety, and finding smart, sustainable solutions to feed a growing population.

Irit Tamir of OxFam America outlined seven investments the world needs to make to feed our growing populations, such as investing in women, supporting small - scale farmers and securing everyone's right to water.

In addition, the changes to our diets that health experts recommend to fight the obesity epidemic, less meat and dairy, less processed foods, and more fruit and vegetables, are the same changes that will make feeding a growing population easier with farming systems that cause far less environmental damage.

Overfishing of salmon to feed a growing population can not explain the decline, says Lenders.

Think land clearing for agriculture to feed a growing population of 6.8 billion people.

José Dinneny studies how plants grow under stress, with insights that could be helpful in feeding a growing population.

How can we feed a growing population while at the same time coping with the impacts of climate change on agriculture?

As the world struggles to feed a growing population, shrinking maize plants through breeding might increase yields

This means the Nottingham group can transfer these tiny bits of genetic information from the wild relatives into wheat on a large scale creating a step change in the search for new varieties of wheat that will cope with disease and climate change and help feed a growing population.

DOOM - MONGERS have got it wrong — there is enough space in the world to produce the extra food needed to feed a growing population.

So how can agriculture be intensified to feed a growing population while addressing environmental concerns?

We believe that unleashing the full potential of scientists worldwide is our best hope for fighting global diseases, feeding our growing population, and protecting our planet.

«The report reflects BBSRC's position on advanced genetic techniques in its call to consider all of the tools at our disposal to feed a growing population and its focus on social, political and economic factors in addition to technological solutions.

GM crops will help feed a growing population and require fewer herbicides and pesticides.

It also reduces the need for other costly and potentially harmful chemicals while helping to feed a growing population and reduces emissions and water usage.

Do we need GM crops to feed a growing population or not?

Crop breeders in developing countries are facing challenges in their efforts to improve yields to feed growing populations, battle crop diseases, and counter the effects of drought, salinity and poor soils.

It will help accelerate the pace of developing improved rice varieties around the globe to feed a growing population, estimated to reach more than 9.6 billion by 2050, with half of humanity relying on rice for sustenance and livelihood.

Curious how are we going to feed the growing population?

By using 100 % of plants, PLANETARIANS are making meals wholesome, feeding a growing population and all around planet friendly.

When I was a kid - I had a dream - eat chips whenever I want... That time did not know that my desire can lead me to feed growing population, reduce the impact on the planet and combat diet - related diseases» - recalls Aleh Manchuliantsau, food scientist that works on upscaling food waste.

America is a relatively young and expansive country, and a major historical concern involved feeding a growing population while moving food large distances.

«[The Green Revolution] was based on high chemical input to realise higher yields, and promoted monocultures to feed the growing populations,» Ramprasad says.

The 1940s saw several minor droughts — notably in 1949 — but the 1950s were consistently wet and expansion of agriculture to feed growing populations characterised this decade and many have thought it contributed to the severity of the subsequent Sahel droughts

A primary goal for agriculture of the future should be to produce enough food to feed a growing population, and to do so while minimizing the negative impacts of that production.

Unless other inefficiencies in our food systems are corrected (like food waste, food distribution, and meat - intensive diets), we are likely to need continued yield increases into the future to feed a growing population.

We take the risks of toxicological and ecological side effects because the first priority is to feed a growing population of humans.

With falling water tables, eroding soils, and rising temperatures making it difficult to feed growing populations, control of arable land and water resources is moving to center stage in the global struggle for food security.

How to feed a growing population with resources threatened by climate change is an increasingly relevant discussion all around the world.

What gets measured gets action: reducing food waste can bridge the gap to feeding a growing population and reduce climate changing impacts

Forty years of research show that organic farming can yield enough food to feed a growing population while protecting the ecosystems we depend on.

To solve today's environmental crises — climate change, deforestation, mass extinction, and marine degradation — while feeding a growing population (on its way to 9 billion) will require not only thinking outside the box,...

To feed a growing population without paving more of wild nature for agricultural land, Ronald and Adamchak argue that all paths towards yield improvements should be considered and pursued.

As agriculture on land faces challenges to feed a growing population on the planet, the underwater city would reply on aquaculture farm, basically a huge, partically encased aquarium for raising fish — close to the base of the circle.

Not exact matches

Securing a better way to feed Asia's growing population is what motivates JUST CEO Josh Tetrick to challenge the status quo of the food industry.

Subsidies could also impact your grocery bill in the near future: the diversion of soybeans, corn and other edibles to ethanol production leaves less farmland to feed an every - growing world population.

The world's population, mainly in the developing countries, is growing at a rapid pace, with over nine billion people projected by 2025 - many more mouths to feed.

Of the other MINTs: Indonesia is in a stable recovery, but the importance of commodities like coal and palm oil means it will not return to previous growth levels soon; Nigeria's economy remains overdependent on oil, though Phylaktis sees its «fast - growing population and labor force feeding faster economic growth over the medium term»; and while «Turkey has a lot of potential,» Lau says, «its political and economic management is questionable and casts a shadow over the economy.»

They cant feed their massively growing poverty - stricken Catholic population.

In order to feed, clothe, and house a growing world population, economic growth must speed up.