Sentences with phrase «food and fuel production»

In theory, there is no reason whatsoever for a conflict between food and fuel production.

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Resistance is also fueled by the massive and often inappropriate use of antibiotics in agriculture; for decades these precious drugs have been used to promote growth and fend off costly infections that can result from the cramped conditions of industrial - scale food animal production.

While protein products developed by these companies are not currently fit for human consumption, methane - based proteins could improve the environmental impact of meat production, and eventually further fuel the meatless revolution by creating another food source for developing economies in Africa and Asia.

A report from the Global Harvest Initiative states that the demand for food, feed, fiber and fuel will likely outpace food production in 2050.

But as human population expands and subsistence farming gives way to mechanized agriculture, food production has become reliant on fossil fuel and fertilizers to increase yield from rapidly shrinking farmland.

Growing awareness of organic production methods and rising disposable incomes are fuelling demand for organic & sustainable foods.

Coconut trees in the Philippines have already been on the decline for decades, and the coconut oil from coconuts is also now valued as a fuel source in bio-diesel production, resulting in less coconut oil availability as a food source each year.

The emergence of climate change and critical constraints on fossil fuel and other non-renewable resources as key limiting factors for the expansion or even maintenance of existing large - scale food production systems in Australia

According to the Mayo Clinic, protein - rich foods such as lean meat, eggs, dairy, beans, lentils and seafood low in mercury help fuel milk production.

Food production is likely to come under increased pressure in the coming years if fuel prices continue to rise and the world's population increases.

At least 70 percent more calories would be available if farmers shifted from growing crops for feed and fuels to food production

For more than 50 years fossil fuels and fertilizers have been the key ingredients in much greater global food production and distribution.

Food production is rising sharply, requiring more carbon - based fuels and nitrogen - based fertilizers, both of which exacerbate global warming, river and ocean pollution, and a host of other ills.

Schroeder is also co-director of a new research entity at UC San Diego called «Food and Fuel for the 21st Century,» which is designed to apply basic research on plants to sustainable food and biofuel productFood and Fuel for the 21st Century,» which is designed to apply basic research on plants to sustainable food and biofuel productfood and biofuel production.

Food production accounts for a third of all greenhouse gas emissions when one tallies those from fossil fuels used in growing, preparing and transporting food; the carbon dioxide released by clearing land for farming and pastures; the methane from rice paddies and ruminant livestock; and the nitrous oxide from fertilizer Food production accounts for a third of all greenhouse gas emissions when one tallies those from fossil fuels used in growing, preparing and transporting food; the carbon dioxide released by clearing land for farming and pastures; the methane from rice paddies and ruminant livestock; and the nitrous oxide from fertilizer food; the carbon dioxide released by clearing land for farming and pastures; the methane from rice paddies and ruminant livestock; and the nitrous oxide from fertilizer use.

As fuel prices for imports rise and more and more environmental issues linked to food production come to light, the level of interest in aquaponics is «increasing astronomically,» Rakocy says.

Farmers make the fuel by chemically treating corn kernels to isolate the sugars and then feeding the sugars to yeast, which digests them and secretes ethanol.Not only do the corn husks and stalks go to waste, but ethanol production has driven up the price of the corn that is used for food by reducing its availability.

Competition between food and fuel crops means that large scale bioethanol production is therefore controversial.

Unicellular photosynthetic microbes — phytoplankton — are responsible for virtually all oceanic primary production, which fuels marine food webs and plays a fundamental role in the global carbon cycle.

These fuels produced from atmospheric CO2 are carbon - neutral and do not compete with food production for agricultural crop land.

Those services provide among others the production of fresh air, food, feed, fuel and fibre.

For starters, our country's system for mandating and subsidizing the production of ethanol has meant that farmers who could be using their land to grow today's food feel economically compelled to grow tomorrow's fuel instead.

Air and water pollution from fossil fuel extraction and use have high costs in human health, food production, and natural ecosystems, killing more than 1,000,000 people per year and affecting the health of billions of people [232], [234], with costs borne by the public.

Fuel your catalase production by eating foods like meat which contains sulfur, iron and methionine.

A better title would have been: «Fueled: The Effects of Using Food for Fuel» or something like that, because the central question of the book is to what degree has using crops to produce biomass for fuel production (usually ethanol) affected the costs of food and fFood for Fuel» or something like that, because the central question of the book is to what degree has using crops to produce biomass for fuel production (usually ethanol) affected the costs of food and fFuel» or something like that, because the central question of the book is to what degree has using crops to produce biomass for fuel production (usually ethanol) affected the costs of food and ffuel production (usually ethanol) affected the costs of food and ffood and fuelfuel.

Anyone who wants a basic understanding of food economics, and how that is impacted by a wide number of factors including using crops for the production of fuel would benefit from this book.

The context surrounding these deforestation statistics is that Brazil has been promising the world that it can greatly increase its food, fuel and energy production and simultaneously achieve a dramatic reduction in deforestation.

[T] he main actors are parents changing population, workers changing affluence, consumers changing the diet (more or less calories, more or less meat) and also the portion of crops entering the food supply (corn can fuel people or cars), and farmers changing the crop production per hectare of cropland (yield).

The more we can centralize our food production, bringing it closer to our homes, and the less reliant we are on distant food suppliers and fossil fuel - powered transportation networks, the better off we'll all be.

Human alteration of environments produces multiple effects, some advantageous to societies, such as enhanced food production, and some detrimental, like environmental pollution with toxic chemicals, excess nutrients and carbon emissions from fossil fuels, and the loss of wildlife and their habitats.

In 2007 and 2008, the swift increase in biofuel production caused a food crisis that incited political instability and fueled malnutrition.

The production of ethanol for fuel in the US uses huge amounts of land, some of which was brought back into production for this purpose, large amounts of energy to the point there is probably a net loss, major water consumption, and little savings in net CO2 emissions (which are plant food anyway.)

Scheduled increases in the Renewable Fuel Standard mandating a tripling of U.S. biofuels production in the next decade would precipitate a massive shift of resources toward biofuels, devastating vast lands, disrupting food markets and jacking up CO2 emissions.

They report in Environmental Research Letters that they examined 740 different production systems for 90 different foods, to calculate levels of land use, greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), fossil fuel energy use, the nutrient runoff that leads to eutrophication or «dead zones» in lakes and rivers, and the potential for acidification of the waters.

The production of food and fibre; the urbanization of once agricultural or forested lands; and the sequestration of that portion of carbon emissions from fossil fuels that is not already absorbed by oceans or by long - term sequestration strategies in agriculture or forestry, all constitute competing or non-overlapping uses of ecosystems.

We know that food production and distribution use tremendous amounts of fossil fuels.

This will encourage development of sustainable, low - carbon fuels that avoid conflict with food production and minimize harmful environmental impacts.

Expanding U.S. biofuel production will require tradeoffs between ambitious fuel production targets and other societal goals, including protection of the water we need for drinking, growing food, preserving aquatic habitats, and producing electricity.

Alternative sources of liquid fuel and liquefiable gas fuel (elsewhere on this page — and biodiesel, gasohol, etc.)(In the Third World rainforest is being cleared to plant oil palms for biodiesel and food production, to the detriment of the global environment.)

However the limit would still expand the use of food crops for fuel and would not end biofuels competing with food production.

From describing the production of a fiber much more durable and economic than wood, the documentary discusses hemps multilateral uses as e.g. food products, as a non-polluting fuel and as a pharmaceutical product with much less griveous sideeffects than chemical pharmaceutical products.

University of Minnesota: Over the past 50 years, 60 percent of all ecosystem services have declined as a direct result of the conversion of land to the production of foods, fuels and fibers.

The amusing stunt drove home a vital point: Biofuel programs are turning food into fuel, converting cropland into fuel production sites, and disrupting food supplies for hungry people worldwide.

The products made from organics are necessities: soil products for the production of healthy food, fiber, and landscapes, as well as fuel and energy products for transportation, heat, food preparation, and electricity.

Another very ugly result of diverting billions of tons of agriculture to fuel production is the consequence of food shortages and skyrocketing food prices, especially when other sources of food are interrupted due to natural weather events.

Data from 22 countries shows the result: fewer resources per capita and a continued risk of famine in areas with low primary production — that is, the availability of carbon in the form of plant material for consumption as food, fuel and feed.

Imagine fossil fuel companies taking responsibility for their CO2 emissions and imagine the beef industry taking that CO2 and storing it in the soil, where it enables the production of more food, on less land, for less money, using less water.

Re bio fuel folley, 5 % of the world's crop land has been taken out of food production when food needs are growing, and put into growing fuel.

Ways to reduce fossil fuel inputs to food systems include the use of farm machinery powered by renewable electricity or farm - produced biofuels; the localization of food systems to reduce transport (perhaps entailing vertical urban agriculture); the adoption of organic and ecological production practices to reduce the need for nitrogen fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides; and an overall reduction in the consumption of highly processed foods.

According to this argument, if U.S. farm production is used for fuel instead of food, food prices rise and farmers in developing countries respond by growing more food.