Sentences with phrase «food shortage crisis»

We hope you can help us out during our current food shortage crisis!

Through enhancing plants» resilience against drought and disease and through breeding crops with higher yields, CRISPR - Cas technology may be a critical tool in fighting the world's food shortage crisis.

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Citizens of the crisis - torn nation are struggling to cope with widespread food shortages, the collapse of its traditional currency and hyperinflation — which the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has forecast to hit 13,000 percent in 2018.

Though the financial crisis offered immediate relief from rising food and energy prices, it also helped lay the groundwork for a supply shortage in its wake.

Many Venezuelans have reportedly resorted to scavenging for food in the garbage, while the crisis has also led to shortages of everything from medicine to toilet paper.

For Venezuelans, in the midst of an economic crisis that has included severe food shortages, the moment was ripe with grim symbolism.

Falcón has talked about dollarizing the economy and ramping up foreign investment to overcome a deep economic crisis that features hyperinflation and sporadic food and medicine shortages.

With risks ranging from extreme weather, water shortage, and unsustainable urbanisation to non-communicable disease, youth unemployment, and the global food crisis, we recommend you consult all three Global Opportunity Reports and seek out the risk areas most relevant for you.

Venezuela's economic downturn has spiralled into a full - fledged humanitarian crisis with massive food shortages and hyperinflation.

These conditions have contributed to the country's worsening humanitarian crisis, including massive food and medical shortages.

And yet, according to an investigative report, the shortage of food - safety inspectors played an important role in the occurrence of this crisis, which claimed the lives of 22 people.

By all accounts there is a serious humanitarian crisis underway, due to food, water, and fuel shortages and limited communications around the island.

Conflict leading to food shortages creates serious humanitarian crisis in Nigeria, Lake Chad area.

Hurricane Maria has left 3.4 million Puerto Ricans facing shortages of food, health care and transit, an American humanitarian crisis fueled by the US territory's May 2017 bankruptcy.

A combination of growing populations and food, energy and water shortages will reach crisis point by 2030, the government's chief scientific advisor will say later today.

«A projected 5.1 million people will face serious food shortages as the conflict and risk of unexploded improvised devices prevented farmers planting for a third year in a row, causing a major food crisis,» the UN said on December 2.

The rise of tuberculosis (TB) in Zimbabwe during the socio - economic crisis of 2008 - 9 has been linked to widespread food shortage, according to a new study led by Canadian researchers from the University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health published in PLOS ONE.

What Bush is «thinking» about concerning climate change is way too late as S. Weisman of the Times reported (Seen in SF Chronicle, April14) on the rapidly developing world food crisis that could hit the USA with wheat and flour shortages in weeks.

We just sit back and let water shortages occur (which will be the first crisis) and then droughts will diminish the food production so that millions will die and most likely begin fighting for resources amongst themselves and reducing the population to levels that we (the super rich) may have a chance to survive against.

Food and water shortages or huge floods could push vulnerable regions over the edge into crises that could «demand an American humanitarian relief or military response», it... Read more

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After extensive study he has concluded that the activities of mankind are not creating a climate crisis and the active global warming / climate change campaign underway today is costing the average American family thousands of dollars a year and creating food shortages and starvation in the third world.

Those crises could mean lost income for American commercial farmers, as well as food shortages for poorer subsistence farmers, who rely on their crops to feed themselves and their families, Lesk said.

Major vulnerabilities induced from climatic hazards include human displacement, drinking water shortages, reduced agricultural productivity and food insecurity, loss of livelihoods, health hazards, energy crises, and disasters.

In his written testimony, Admiral McGinn cited a number of scenarios that could come to pass if we fail to address the climate problem: rising humanitarian crises and conflicts in Africa exacerbated by drought, food insecurity, and extreme weather; social conflict and northern migration in Latin American driven by food shortages and land degradation; millions of refugees driven northward by intense coastal typhoon damage in Bangladesh; and external and internal unrest in Asia compounded by unreliable water supplies from the shrinking Himalayan glaciers.