Sentences with phrase «food security across»

These climate - related effects are causing sudden shifts in local economies and food security across the world, including agriculture, subsistence farming and fishing.
Forests provide essential services in reducing poverty, providing energy and ensuring food security across the world, yet government policies fail to harness these benefits, said the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation.
«[Global capital] is looking for investments, and one of the best investments is the agribusiness sector, which is based on food security across the world, first and foremost in Africa and Asia,» he said.
«Researchers link climate - induced disasters, food security across time, place.»
We champion programs and policies that strengthen food security across the United States and around the globe, including the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals, Feed the Future, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and federal Child Nutrition Programs.

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In addition to Tyvek ®, packaging and collaboration across the packaging value chain play a key role in food security.
By serendipity, the scientific work by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is building bridges across difficult political borders to help achieve shared goals in food security and poverty alleviation.
Incorporating SPIKE into indica varieties that are very popular and widely used across 70 % of global rice - growing areas could significantly contribute to food security.
Being a researcher in food and agriculture, «food security» is a term that I come across frequently through books, articles, newspapers and interactions.
With the impact of climate change and more diversified diets across the growing global middle class, temperate rice production is becoming increasingly important to ensure global food security.
Jack Brewer, Chief Executive Officer of The Brewer Group, Inc. and Founder / Executive Director of The Jack Brewer Foundation stated, «I am extremely honored to partner with RiceBran Technologies and work together to enhance awareness of their revolutionary proprietary and patented products, while helping bring global food safety and security across the world through our various collaborative initiatives.»
The COMEXPOSIUM Group, one of the world's leading event organizers, is involved in more than 170 B2C and B2B events across 11 different sectors, including food, agriculture, fashion, security, digital, construction, high - tech, optics and transport.
With public awareness of obesity, diabetes, food security and climate change, this evolving Berkeley story is opening up conversations across the country.
«Power cuts across and has impact on healthcare delivery, job creation, education, food security communications and all other sectors of the economy.
«Additionally, the government through the Ministry of Food and Agriculture opened up more mechanization centres across the regions of the country and this has led to increased food security», he adFood and Agriculture opened up more mechanization centres across the regions of the country and this has led to increased food security», he adfood security», he added.
«I believe strongly that the test case of what we are trying to do about food security in Lagos State is just more or less like an elixir for what it should be across the western region and on that note, we want to say that we have already acquired land in Ogun and Oyo States but what is imperative for us to move forward now is that we would integrate all other Southwestern States into the food security mechanism of demand and supply for us to move forward,» he said.
The authors added that governmental and non-governmental agencies will need to collaborate across disciplines, and countries, to ensure that the potential benefits of development do not occur at the expense of regional food security and the integrity of the Amazon ecosystem.
This could improve the resilience of agriculture to climate related shocks, which can improve food security in many areas across the globe», says Matias Heino, a doctoral candidate at Aalto University.
The illicit trade in wildlife and wildlife parts is now a multi-billion industry decimating iconic animal populations, undermining security across nations, and threatening ecosystems, food security, human health, and livelihoods among the world's poorest communities.
Agroforestry is one of the most common land use systems across landscapes and agroecological zones in Africa but need much more adoption in order to increase the impact on food security.
Consistent with prior research, the study found that polygyny was associated with low food security and poor child health when looking at data across all villages.
During the evening, the team highlighted the GM's work to support communities across the Sahel in climate resilient development, as part of the Great Green Wall initiative and its efforts to scale up the Great Green Wall Initiative, to jointly «Grow a World Wonder», since the Great Green Wall is part of the solution to many global challenges, including food security, conflict prevention and environmental migration.
The Permanent Secretary, Niger State Ministry of Agriculture, Malam Yusuf Bako Kagara, who was represented by a director in the ministry, Alhaji Abba Aliyu, commended the collaboration by ATASP and Africa Rice towards boosting food security and reduce unemployment across the state.
Sander J. Zwart, principal researcher at AfricaRice: «Strategic knowledge on the when and where of rice production supports the debate on food security and the development and implementation of policies across Africa.
GBM's approach empowers communities to take action against climate change, the impacts of which are already being witnessed across Africa, through food security and water harvesting activities (adaptation) and planting the appropriate trees in appropriate places (mitigation).
Her volunteering journey began at a young age for cats at the local animal shelter, and has brought her across the world working on international issues such as education and food security.
Prof Peirs Forster (Univ of Leeds, UK; IPCC lead author) led a 2012 study of the probability of extreme drought across Asia, in which this was found to be liable to occur within 10 years on a scale potentially threatening global food security.
MRD Journal: Abstract: Rising temperatures and changing precipitation patterns across the Hindu Kush — Himalaya (HKH) region resulting from climate change have an influence on water resource availability and food security for the downstream population.
Ceres» new food and beverage sector report commends leadings companies on climate goals, but calls for bold plans across the sector in sustainability, water conservation, and human rights security.
The evidence - based Integrated Food Security Phase Classification system, run by a range of UN agencies and NGOs, and which was thoroughly updated in 2017, has now been adopted in 25 countries across the world.
Additionally, potential synergies between food security, adaptation and mitigation opportunities, as well as costs, can differ substantially across different agro-ecological zones, climate regimes, and historical land use patterns.
While the change in river levels will have immediate impacts on food and water security for nations across the world, scientists are also concerned about how less freshwater may affect the oceans.
«If crop yields go down 10, 20, 30 percent, that would have had an enormous impact across the world in terms of food security,» he said.
This threatens food security and rural livelihoods across the globe.
This is why SBSTA must consider the impacts of climate change across all scales of food production and find approaches to ensuring food security for all.
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