Sentences with phrase «food imports alone»

With severe droughts in California, and over $ 2.5 billion in food imports alone into Ontario from that region, there are huge opportunities to grow more food in cities, on buildings and in our region.

Not exact matches

Having accepted that it can't satisfy its prospering population alone, China must find a way to feel secure while importing growing quantities of food — the second prong of its strategy.

Whilst international companies keen to increase their brand presence in the Nordic market (imports account for around 50 % of organic sales in Sweden alone) include Clearspring; DO - IT (Dutch Organic International Trade); Ogilvy's Honey; Voelkel organic juices; IDOrganics; Horizon Natuurvoeding BV; Ocram; Spielberger GmbH; Frescolat SRL; Epikourous; Felix Himstedt; and Holle baby food GmbH to name just a few.

Despite the safeguards it affords, they say, mothers in developing countries - the most vulnerable of mothers anywhere, the ones least able to afford formula milk, the ones whose babies most need the breast milk they could and should be getting for free - were being, and continue to be, targeted by corporate giants bent on carving out their share of a valuable market (Save the Children, which today publishes a report on the baby - milk industry, reckons that the total value of baby - milk and baby - food imports is worth almost # 16m a year in Bangladesh alone - but the potential, if more mothers were bottlefeeding, is a lot higher than that).

Rink made estimations on the macronutrient levels based on the amount of annual food consumption, including those imports, and if one excludes the imported bread, barley, peas and sugar from the table, he guessed that the Eskimos were getting 33g of carbs / day from their seal and whale flesh alone (the fresh skin in particular was rich in glycogen and they would often consume it quickly as it arrived onshore).