Sentences with phrase «food imports since»

However, a study in the Royal Society's Interface journal shows that the UK has become increasingly dependent on food imports since the 1980s, with about 50 % of its food and feed currently being imported.

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But excluding both fuels and food, import prices ticked up 0.1 % last month from January, their first increase since May 2014.

Since the Iranian government has lifted the import restrictions on food products in 2003, imports of food products have become a major business.

Russia's ban of food imports from Europe has been in place since 2014 but Donald Trump's election to the White House could mean an end is in sight.

«Since China banned imports of household plastics wastes on January 1, European food producers and retailers have intensified efforts to reduce or eliminate plastic.

We focus on ruminant livestock since it has the highest emissions intensity across food sectors... While shifting consumption patterns in wealthy countries from imported to domestic livestock products reduces GHG emissions associated with international trade and transport activity, we find that these transport emissions reductions are swamped by changes in global emissions due to differences in GHG emissions intensities of production.

Such imports are equivalent to importing «virtual water», since food production accounts for nearly 80 per cent of annual freshwater usage.

Many food companies that were involved in one of the largest and scariest pet food recalls in 2007 (due to contaminated imported ingredients from China) have since «cleaned up their act.»

I would also like to add that I'm able to order imported wet canned foods online (I've tried Tiki cat, Wellness, Weruva) She will eat all of these, but seems to prefer dry and has been eating Royal canine kitten since 2 months old.

Since 2007, a number of scares have occurred involving imported food and treat ingredients — notably jerky — laced with contaminants including melamine, as well as illegal antibiotics and anti-virals.

In Kenya meat scraps are standard fare for pet cats (though most are expected to be largely self - sufficient) since any cat food must be imported and is hence prohibitively expensive.

My first EcoChallenge was to take on the hyperlocavore 100 mile diet, and since then I've thought about food, food transportation and the import / export systems nearly every time I grocery shop.

Today marks 100 days since Hurricane Maria made landfall, and Puerto Rico is still importing 95 percent of its food.

Urban agriculture plays an important role in enhancing urban food security since the costs of supplying and distributing food to urban areas based on rural production and imports continue to increase, and do not satisfy the demand, especially of the poorer sectors of the population.