Sentences with phrase «footprint of food production»

It's surprising how little has been done to address the carbon footprint of food production, given its immense size.

In addition to having a short growing period, there is the opportunity to move production into urban farms enabling reductions in the carbon footprint of food production and supply.

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«The additional carbon footprint created by the longer supply chain is the enemy of food production.

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Meeting the world's future food and nutritional needs in a sustainable way presents critical development challenges, underscoring the urgent need for action to enhance production while minimizing the environmental footprint of rice systems and their vulnerability to climate change.

The Closing Rice Yield Gaps in Asia With Reduced Environmental Footprint (CORIGAP) aims to improve food security and gender equity, and alleviate poverty through optimizing productivity and sustainability of irrigated rice production systems.

Another step in agricultural production is sorting: By improving fresh produce sorting with available technologies the food industry could improve its footprint significantly:» -LRB-...) By increasing yields by just 1 % with better sorting technology, it is possible to increase the final amount of this type of produce in the United States by 11 million tons -LRB-...).»

For each carbon footprint, researchers considered both direct carbon emissions — from the consumption of food, heating and cooling of homes and the use of transport — and indirect carbon emissions — from the production of household goods and services.

While the carbon produced through the transportation of food goods is small next to the impact of red meat production, it is easy to combat and will take you one step closer to reducing your carbon footprint.

While the greenhouse gas footprint of the production of other foods, compared to sources such as livestock, is highly dependent on a number of factors, production of livestock currently accounts for about 30 % of the U.S. total emissions of methane.316, 320,325,326 This amount of methane can be reduced somewhat by recovery methods such as the use of biogas digesters, but future changes in dietary practices, including those motivated by considerations other than climate change mitigation, could also have an effect on the amount of methane emitted to the atmosphere.327

Those who study food production, for example, see our «Carbon Footprint» as a very good thing, and it's signal is quite evident in the increase in agricultural productivity over the latter part of the 20th Century.

Setting aside 30 percent of the oceans as no - take MPAs would mean more terrestrial food production, he argued, and the extra forests converted to farmland and livestock would generate a significantly larger carbon footprint than fishing.

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

It is a vision of: urbanization, as people in cities have more opportunities and use resources more efficiently; intensified food production to increase yields and leave more room for nature; the expanded use of nuclear energy, which has zero emissions and the smallest land footprint of any energy source; greater development of GMOs to reduce chemical use and increase yields; animal - free meat; «re-wilding» former farm and pasture lands with wolves, buffalo, mountain lions, and even formerly extinct species — all the while supporting universal human dignity.

This vision, as outlined in An Ecomodernist Manifesto, is one of urbanization; intensified food production to increase yields and leave more room for nature; the expanded use of nuclear energy, which has zero emissions and the smallest land footprint of any energy source; greater development of GMOs to reduce chemical use and increase yields; animal - free meat; and «rewilding» former farm and pasture lands with wolves, buffalo, mountain lions, and even formerly extinct species.

Creating more urban farms and more food production centers closer to where the market is, whether they are traditional outdoor growing areas, rooftop farms, indoor hydroponic and aquaponics systems, vertical farms, or vacant lot gardens, can go a long way toward building a more resilient local food system and reducing the ecological footprint of our diets.

From an environmental perspective, local foods conserve materials used in packaging and reduce the carbon footprint of your product via transportation and production.

Local has become the new buzzword, we now weigh the carbon footprint of our food, and there have been a few recent disasters in our food production system that make one want to look the farmer in the face.

The study found «strong indirect edge effects over decades» in forests more than a kilometer (0.6 miles) from oil palm plantations, «suggesting the true global ecological footprint of human food production has been substantially underestimated.»