Sentences with phrase «food shortages»

Besides storing fat, the body has several methods to survive periods of food shortage and starvation.

This will ease the problems caused by food shortages which so far have resulted in a further 44 million people being forced to live in poverty.

The last time the world faced food shortages on a global basis, agricultural scientists produced the green revolution.

With global food shortages on the horizon, forward - thinking chefs, environmentalists and food scientists are turning toward an unexpected source of protein: insects.

The world faces widespread food shortages due to global warming.

The root cause of all the major environmental issues from food shortages, loss of biodiversity to global warming is current overpopulation.

But farmers have been forced to try to resume their work to help alleviate chronic food shortages that have left hundreds of thousands starving and dependent on food aid.

You hear a lot about the growing world population and food shortages on the horizon.

As a warming climate continues to accelerate the summer ice melts, it is important to understand how polar bears are — or are not — adapting to even more extreme food shortages.

The work to boost crop productivity comes as concerns about food shortages rise with the world's population.

A report has looked at which sections of the population are left most exposed to food shortages after extreme weather events.

This could lead to increased food production, which in turn could offset projected food shortages.

The post-war food shortage inspired him to create a product to fill the gap in cheap food options.

Plants engineered to have bigger root systems could also help address food shortages and aid in efforts to grow crops in a warmer, drier climate.

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

This issue is timely today not just because of the current food shortages but because greens are calling for vast sums of money to be spent to ward off future climate change.

Growing population and declining food production could have a cascade effect: Food shortages lead to hunger, hunger leads to conflict, conflict leads to mass migration and political instability.

The cases with lowest vulnerability showed no extreme social change or food shortage following climate disasters.

In each case, eight variables — ranging from social to environmental aspects — were applied to quantify vulnerability to food shortage before extreme climate challenges.

So with global warming adding to this, we are likely to start getting worldwide absolute food shortages — maybe big ones.

And the effects will continue, with consequences including drastic food shortages, experts say.

For these populations, fat storage was essential for surviving the long periods of food shortage.

Scientists are modifying photosynthesis to dramatically increase crop yields and reduce global food shortages.

At least 120 protesters have died in recent months while the country has been affected by food shortages.

The same small change in temperature, however, would reduce food production at lower latitudes, where many countries already face food shortages.

The world went from food shortage to food surplus; meanwhile, its population more than doubled.

The Christian charity says conflicts and flooding are creating severe food shortages in the country, and the UN has warned that 50,000 children in South Sudan could die by 2015.

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.

That led to shortages of drinking water in some areas and caused rice, corn and soybean fields to dry up, setting off worries for food shortages and inflated food prices.

You might want to take a look at the article I did in Scientific American a couple years ago, entitled «Could World Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?»

The real threat to humanity comes not from any (trivial) greenhouse warming but from cooling periods creating food shortages and famines.»

That may help offspring survive food shortages.

But when the wolves eat too many moose, the resulting food shortage pares down the former's number, controlling their population, as well.

Nearly one - third of U.S. children under age 12 live in families that lack food at some point during the year or are at risk of serious food shortages during that time, according to a study by a nutrition watchdog group.

Depending on how cold the present 30 - year cooling period gets, in addition to the higher death rates, we will have to contend with diminished growing seasons and increasing crop failures with food shortages in third world countries, increasing energy demands, changing environments, increasing medical costs from diseases (especially flu), increasing transportation costs and interruptions, and many other ramifications associated with colder climate.

Gelfand's findings could fit that interpretation, but Thornhill says threats like food shortages or natural disasters would actually be better handled by openness and tolerance, which allow new ideas and technologies to develop.

At the same time, CSIRO is also crafting lower - tech programs for farmers in nearby developing countries, which may face severe food shortages due to crop failures and even widespread famine as the weather heats up, water dries up, and population explodes.

Many food pantries experience food shortages in the summer months due to decreases in donations.

Evan Ratliff, «The Green Wall of China,» Wired, April 2003; Wang Yan, «China's Forest Shelter Project Dubbed «Green Great Wall»,» Xinhua News Agency, 9 July 2006; Sun Xiufang and Ralph Bean, China Solid Wood Products Annual Report 2002 (Beijing: USDA, 2002); Jonathan Watts, «China Suspends Reforestation Project over Food Shortage Fears,» Guardian (London), 23 June 2009.

That's not very efficient, and if it came to having massive food shortages in the future, I think that phasing in a more vegetarian diet could help solve that problem - along with many other problems related to the consumption of meat - with more ease than trying to build enough of these vertical farms to feed all these billions of people and the dozens of billions of animals they would eat.

Some countries, particularly India, have been averse to discussing agricultural impacts during U.N. climate negotiations — largely because they fear that the outcomes of such talks could reduce agricultural output and worsen food shortages.

CARACAS, Venezuela — The mayor of Chacao in Venezuela's capital Caracas has warned that Caribbean islands and Colombia may suffer an influx of refugees from Venezuela if food shortages continue in the country.

Climate Change Report Predicts «Extreme Weather Events» to Cause Major Food Shortages» — Evidence accumulates: what we're doing, bad idea, etc..

The fixed division of labour between crested penguin parents increases their chicks» vulnerability to food shortages made ever more common by climate change.

Hover takes place in the near future, where environmental strain has caused food shortages around the world.