Sentences with phrase «food crises»

I have found myself more reactive and anxious, more prone to ruminating about environmental, financial and food crises, and to waking with worry in the middle of the night.

The Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), the peak body for Australia's aid groups, has published a detailed analysis, saying Australia's aid contribution as a share of gross national income in 2017 - 18 will be 0.22 per cent, «once again plunging aid to new all - time low levels of generosity» and failing to match - up to the reality of global challenges, like climate change, food crises and the insecurity faced by displaced people.

com GLOBAL REPORT ON FOOD CRISES FINDS THAT IN 2017 MAJOR FAMINES WERE PARTLY AVERTED BUT FOOD SECURITY REMAINS CRITICAL FAIR TAXATION: COMMISSION PUTS IN PLACE FIRST EU COUNTER-MEASURES ON LISTED NON-COOPERATIVE TAX JURISDICTIONS development assistance and peace building sup - port in an integrated way — and thereby increasing the resilience of people and communities in part - ner countries.

For the four ma - jor food crises in 2017 in par - ticular, the European Union contributed over $ 750 mil - lion to joint humanitarian and development support, and EU Member States ad - ditionally provided over $ 1 billion.

However, it also highlights the severity and the complexity of food crises around the world.

The Global Report on Food Crises indicates that major risks of famine were avert - ed in 2017 in the four coun - tries that were declared at risk in early 2017: Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and North Nigeria.

The scientific rigour applied by the Joint Research Cen - tre in compiling the an - nual report on food crises will help us diagnose the problems correctly and propose the best policies.»

Neven Mimica, Commis - sioner for International Co - operation and Develop - ment, who presented the report today in Rome, said: «In 2017, the Global Report on Food Crises alerted us about the risk of famines in a number of partner countries.

Tibor Navracsics, Com - missioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, responsible for the Joint Research Centre, added: «Food crises remain one of the most pressing ca - tastrophes worldwide.

The researchers say the study raises concern that current pressures on farmland from population growth and climate change could worsen current food crises by leading to similar events in other regions.

Hopefully the realization by those in developed, temperate nations that they will suffer alongside the billions already facing food crises will motivate people to think more seriously about how we can change ourselves before our planet takes the decision out of our hands.

Both situations, paradoxically, cause water and food crises, as water sources either dry up or become contaminated and crops die.

He highlights that while population growth may exacerbate the environmental and food crises, the causes are much more complex, including consumption levels, technology, trade, economic and agricultural policies, as well as values and aspirations.

(Thomson Reuters Foundation)-- Millions of people in Asia, the world's most disaster - prone region, face the threat of major climate - linked disasters and food crises because government policies fail to protect them, Oxfam warned on Thursday.

Groundwater depletion is embedded in the international food trade, with countries exporting crops grown from overexploited aquifers and setting up potential future food crises if the aquifers run dry.

Growing at 1 % a minute, this would put the final maximum world population at over 12 billion, which given our energy and food crises seems to me to be a fair estimate.

Could solving our food crises also lift up the lower class and create an environment where hunger and poverty don't exist?

He fed them blood (collected from a slaughterhouse, not anybody's favorite part of doing science) and then created short artificial food crises, recording dozens of observations of blood sharing.

This leads to greater chances of food crises, particularly in nations where land and water resources are scarce and therefore food security strongly relies on imports.

When we look at food crises around the world, the citizenry and the government of the United States feel that it's in our interest to step up to the plate even if it ends up costing taxpayer money.

The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse

From animal disease outbreaks, to accidental contamination, food - borne illnesses, and concerns over the provenance or ingredients of foodstuffs, food crises of one form or another are seemingly a regular occurrence.

Terminator technologies for synthetic biology, GM crops for agrofuels, geoengineering and all of the other false solutions to the energy, climate and food crises enclose vast genetic resources and agrobiodiversity, taking them out of the public realm and into the control of TNCs, especially the US Big Biotech giants Monsanto, Dupont and Arborgen.

Experts at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) based in the Philippines say that durable regional agreements on rice production and supply will shield the region from global food crises that may emerge from upheavals in market conditions.

She believes this concept could be a way to solve the world's inevitable food crises.

This session will focus on understanding potential perils — from food crises to pandemics and from climate catastrophes to human migration — that aren't top - of - mind in most boardrooms, but could enable CEOs to better navigate changing economic conditions and markets.

Such indoor farming — ranging from skyscraper greenhouses to in vitro meat — is altering our definition of agriculture and creating technologies that could stave off a global food crisis.

As the world suffers another food crisis, some industry watchers think farmland could follow tech and real estate to become the next big bubble.

The starting point for the discussion was five specific global risks: Resistance to life saving medicine Accelerating transport emissions Loss of ocean biodiversity Global food crisis A Generation Wasted These risk represent a pressure -LSB-...]

By Project Coordinator of the Global Opportunity Network Emil Kofoed Braunschweig In a world with increasing urbanisation and a population that is expected to increase to 8.4 billion by mid-2030, a global food crisis is a very real risk.

In a world with increasing urbanisation and a population that is expected to increase to 8.4 billion by mid-2030, a global food crisis is a very real risk.

With risks ranging from extreme weather, water shortage, and unsustainable urbanisation to non-communicable disease, youth unemployment, and the global food crisis, we recommend you consult all three Global Opportunity Reports and seek out the risk areas most relevant for you.

This is particular evident in relation to the global food crisis where everyday millions of tons of food on the global scale goes to waste due to inefficiency.

The good news is that the more than 5,500 leaders surveyed worldwide for this year's Global Opportunity Report sees great new market potential in addressing the risk of the global food crisis.

The starting point for the discussion was five specific global risks: Resistance to life saving medicine Accelerating transport emissions Loss of ocean biodiversity Global food crisis A Generation Wasted These risk represent a -LSB-...]

The price of soya beans is heading towards the record high set during the 2007 - 08 food crisis, which is set to reignite fears of runaway global food inflation.

Other sources of edible oil, including rapeseed and canola, have also reached levels last seen during the 2007 - 08 food crisis.

All around the world we're feeling the effects of the food crisis.

The present food crisis is the tip of the iceberg of economic exploitation.

I guess that in a world where 39,000 children die each day from preventable disease, where around 90,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq, where the current global food crisis causes a child to die every seven seconds, where 47 million Americans can not afford basic healthcare, and where women and children continue to be murdered in Darfur — nothing says «God is pro-life» better than a bunch of wet democrats.

Christian agencies have joined in the response to the recent food crisis in East Africa and Yemen.

Despite our apparent desire to serve in the present world food crisis we are often like the rich young ruler who «went away sorrowful; for he had great possessions.»

The stark realities of the world food crisis have made hunger a priority item on the agenda of American churches.

Time magazine (November 11, 1974), concluding its special report on the world food crisis, explains its support of triage:

Father James Oyet of the South Sudanese Council of Churches, who organised the National Day of Prayer added: «In spite of all the thunderstorms of life, the food crisis, the economic crisis, we want to thank God.

The country has declared that official Independence Day celebrations will not go ahead this year due to ongoing conflict, a food crisis that has seen 50 per cent of the population dependent on food aid, 2 million displaced internally and a further 1.9 million flee the country.

This was likely to have been penned in AD 54 when Corinth (like many other places) was suffering famine, but Paul knew that there would be a much worse food crisis in Israel during the following two years.

A U.S. government study of response to a 2002 southern Africa drought and food crisis found that food aid contributed to a marked drop in the price of corn.

In an era of daily reports about a global food crisis, perhaps it is kairos time for the church to extend the table, to view the Lord's Supper not only as commemorating that Upper Room meal, but also as remembering Jesus» feeding of the multitude.

With this rising population and the lack of radical reform in most underdeveloped countries, particularly in the rural communities where the large masses of these people live, the world food crisis will recur when again the crops are less favorable; the danger is that it will then gradually take on an ever more permanent and disastrous dimension.