Sentences with phrase «food crisis»

She said the findings highlight the need for stronger air - quality regulations, especially given the looming global food crisis.

The world is in the grips of its second food crisis in four years.

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

Governments can stop the recurring pattern of food crises by backing off their demands for ever more biofuels.

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.

Since the 2007 pet food crisis, pet owners have been more alert to what their furry friends eat.

It's a dire report, but for entrepreneurs with ideas on how to stem the looming food crisis, it's also a big opportunity.

Big Step in Building: We are at the beginning of a major food crisis and can no longer afford to lose agricultural land close to our cities and towns.

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

Human population growth, growing demand for water, and declining biodiversity are other issues wrapped up in the warnings of a coming food crisis.

These findings are consistent with the food insecurity that has affected trade - dependent countries during recent food crises.

Despite the progress of some Asian nations in their respective agricultural sectors, food crisis remains a looming threat.

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

For the Dutch researcher, the main reason for exploring this method of meat production is to provide an answer to the mounting food crisis.

Can science use the genes engineered by nature instead of genetic engineering in the face of a pending food crisis?

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 current food crisis we are facing is not one of production, the authors argue, but one of waste.

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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.

The principle factor that encourages people to leave their homes in the country side is the frequent recurrence of natural disasters, which undermine agricultural development and cause food crisis.

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.

Ochapa said, «These successes are crucial to ensuring that the entire country does not get plunged into the chaos that comes with food crisis since many farming communities are unable to plant crops while demented killers rampage through the land.

We are facing an impending food crisis in the coming century as the world population grows to more than 9 billion and climate change disrupts agricultural systems.

Even as Iran's nuclear program raises the likelihood of yet another conflict in the Middle East, the bigger threat is a potential food crisis in the making, says Lester Brown, founder of the Earth Policy Institute.

El Nino gained fame as it caused a severe food crisis in Southern and Eastern Africa.

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.

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.

and Patagonia Provisions is the company's answer to the environmental food crisis.

The United States is responsible «many times more» than India for the world food crisis because of its higher food consumption, said Ramesh Chand, an economist with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, which advises India's government on farming policy, in the International Herald Tribune.

What's one of the best things we can do to prevent food crises and food riots?

The region was already dealing with internal sociopolitical, economic and climatic tensions, and the 2010 global food crisis helped drive it over the edge.

Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for helping to promote world peace by easing food crises around the world.

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.

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.

General Danjuma who was represented by Mr Aliyu Kamara said within a short time food crisis will be history in the region.

The committee says the same experts helped predict the seriousness of the East Africa food crisis in 2011, which led to the first famine of the 21st Century in Somalia.

Food crisis spreads across continent, exacerbated by diminishing foreign aid, rising prices; «There is nothing to harvest»

Yet the drought and attendant food crisis were not a surprise to the U.S. government or the United Nations.

Fortunately, global wheat stockpiles are in better shape than during the last food crisis in 2007 and 2008.

Countries that strongly depend on trade for their food supply appear to be more susceptible to instability and episodic food crises than exporting countries.

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.

After a global food crisis ravages the Midwest, Cooper (McConaughey), an engineer / pilot / father of two, turns his focus on farming until an old mentor (Michael Caine) recruits him to join a hush - hush space mission.

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.