Sentences with phrase «food demand»

What does this mean for the food chain as global food demand increases?

Around that time the world was struggling to meet increasing food demands.

Measuring emissions from different crops and management systems can help identify the most efficient way to reduce future greenhouse gas emissions while keeping up with food demand.

And it has to be adaptive too — to seasonal changes in food demand, for instance.

Any yield improvement potential is therefore already needed to meet growing food demands.

Long - term tends remain positive with steadily rising food demand and an ongoing need for developing markets to invest in equipment.

They argue that current food demand trends must change through reducing waste and encouraging balanced diets.

Although the food may travel a shorter distance, it comes from a larger number of smaller sources to deliver shoppers the local quality food they demand.

With a large group food demand is significant straight away.

Reduced food waste and plant - rich diet use fully customized models due to the inherent complexity in measuring food demand.

To expand them significantly would require taking more farmland out of production, an unlikely prospect in a world where food demand and prices are rising.

Rates of gains have been impressive in both favourable and dry years but they are below the rate that is required to meet future global food demand.

Experts suggest that with increased food demand, food productivity is also estimated to double in the next five decades.

As populations rise and global tastes shift towards meat - heavy Western diets, increasing agricultural yields will not meet projected food demands of what is expected to be 9.6 billion people — making it necessary to bring more land into cultivation.

EL BATAN, Mexico (CIMMYT)-- A new study identifies the key ways to keep up with India's rising food demand while minimizing greenhouse gas emissions.

Enhancing just three genes helps plants harvest more light, raising new hopes for developing crops that can keep up with food demands from a crowded planet.

India is one of the world's largest contributors to global warming, but simple changes in farm management can drastically cut emissions while meeting food demand.

Wet food demands greater water content than dry, yet also a firm texture and low water activity.

This paper examines the nature of the population challenge globally, the effect of population growth on food demand in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the potential benefits — in...

But even with the yield gaps closed, projected food demand will still require additional land — so the impact on GHG emissions and biodiversity remains.

In many cities a substantial part of the urban food demand, and especially that in perishable products, is covered by farmers in the intra - and peri-urban areas.

In a world where almost a billion people went hungry last year — 119 million more than in 2007 — and with food demand set to double by midcentury, the taboo against GM foods is crumbling.

It points out that we have a choice in our diets and the power to influence future food demand: «Thankfully, the destructive path that we are currently travelling is not definitive, but in order to change our own and the planet's destiny, it is pertinent that we act now.»

Rest of the World Ghana Farms Miss Out on Oil - Fueled Middle Class Food Demand Middle classes introduce changes into societies $ $ $ SPY Dec 07, 2013 Are the Baltic Dry Index Telling Us to Expe...

Food demand for animals, grains, soybeans, corn and other crops increases the total annual demand for agricultural products.

«We need to answer the question of how can we produce enough food for a planet which will see 70 percent growth in food demand between now and 2050,» says Tetrick, whose company has attracted high - profile investors such as Hong Kong business magnate Li Ka - shing.

Food demand normally surges during the Muslim holy month because of heavy consumption following the dawn - to - dusk fasting period.

Chile and South Africa, for example, are also southern hemisphere producers able to meet out - of - season food demand in Asia.

Total food production could shrink by 60 %, and the Sydney foodbowl's capacity to feed its» residents could drop from meeting 20 % of food demand down to a mere 6 %.

Although food demands — and the need for fertilizer for crops — are likely to increase in the future, there are numerous possible ways to limit unwanted nitrogen fertilizer spillover, the researchers note.

An extra 2.3 billion people could mean a 70 percent jump in food demand by 2050, according to United Nations estimates.

Using visual signals is challenging because they are nocturnal; and because they use calls to locate food, food demands constrain how these calls can evolve.

A prosperous global population however, has blazed the way for burgeoning new mouths to feed that, by 2050, will nearly double food demand.

Such biotechnology is «critical for achieving the ecological intensification required to meet human food demand on a global scale,» argues agronomist Ken Cassman of the University of Nebraska — Lincoln.

«With their lower food demands, however, a real T. rex was able to get by just fine.»

Without forgetting, you must be aware that maintaining the Paleo diet foods demands a lot of self - discipline to accomplish your goals.

Secondly, since the introduction of super-premium dry pet foods in the mid-70's, manufacturers of super-premium pet foods demand a super-premium grade of poultry or chicken by - product meal.

They found that while global average food demand per person remains almost constant, in the last five decades food availability has rapidly increased - hiking the emissions related to growing surplus food by more than 300 percent.

But with global food demand expected to grow another 50 % by 2050, the expanding footprint of agriculture threatens to decimate much of what remains of the earth's forests and grasslands, even if output is able to keep up with demand.

Total food demand is calculated based on global population (from the family planning and educating girls solutions from the Women and Girls Sector) and dietary trends (from the plant - rich diet and reduced food waste solutions from within the Food Sector).

Food demand makes up 28 % of the global Ecological Footprint.

A sentence on local temperature increases combined with increasing food demand posing large risks to food security globally and regionally was discussed at length.

This implies that if biofuels are produced on existing cropland, other production - in particular for serving the growing food demand beyond the capacities to increase yields - will be displaced to other areas («indirect land use»).

Instituted customer promotional survey to assess food demand, which soon became adopted industry - wide.

This system will only be exacerbated as food demand increases.

Unlike the risks from fossil fuel CO2, where it is possible and ultimately necessary to envision a shift to energy systems that are carbon - free, food production requires nitrogen and phosphorus, and we must enhance natural supplies of these nutrients to meet world food demands.