Sentences with phrase «food over the coming decades»

Somehow, even as humanity increases the production of food over the coming decades, it must reduce the environmental footprint of agriculture.

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Once at a table, the women wait until their sons or husbands — all of whom have been imprisoned for more than a decade and have over a decade to go — come out to spend a morning in the gloomy room to talk and eat food from the vending machines.

dear heidi, 101 cookbooks is one of the first food blogs (or any blogs, really) that i came to read on a regular basis over a decade ago, and among the few that i still read, again on a regular basis, to this day.

Likewise, over the past decade, no new drugs have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration to help the 5 million Americans who suffer from Alzheimer's disease, a number expected to grow dramatically in the coming years, at a huge cost to the U.S. economy as well as to American families.

These changes enlarged a cold pool of water the penguins rely on for food and breeding — an expansion that could continue as the climate changes over the coming decades, the study's authors said.

This is expected to rise in many regions over the coming decades and could reduce or even negate the beneficial effects of higher CO2 (see Climate change warning over food production).

Yet to avoid clearing natural ecosystems while still meeting projected food crop and livestock demands, crops and pasture yields overall will have to grow even faster over the coming four decades than they did over the previous four decades.

One recent Nature study, however, found there was substantial potential for sugarcane biofuel to expand in Brazil over the coming decades, while also protecting forests under conservation and accounting for increases in food and animal feed production.

For example, snowpack is expected to continue to decrease over the coming decades, reducing surface water supplies in the Western US [5] In such a situation, groundwater becomes particularly critical, providing a buffer during dry years that helps protect water supplies and ensures a reliable food supply [6].