Sentences with phrase «for global food security said»

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Since organic farming currently accounts for such a small percentage of global agricultural production, Crowder said its effect on food security is not an immediate concern.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Dr. R.R.A. Wijekoon, Director General of Agriculture, Government of Sri Lanka, said «This will strengthen rice research development activities in the country especially to ensure food and nutrition security and sharing of global innovative technologies for the country's successful rice production.»

said Eva Kjer Hansen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark, «Food loss and waste is a huge challenge for global food security, human livelihoods and the conservation of the environment that calls for global responses and individual actFood, Denmark, «Food loss and waste is a huge challenge for global food security, human livelihoods and the conservation of the environment that calls for global responses and individual actFood loss and waste is a huge challenge for global food security, human livelihoods and the conservation of the environment that calls for global responses and individual actfood security, human livelihoods and the conservation of the environment that calls for global responses and individual action.

Professor Peter Horton FRS, Chief Research Advisor to the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures at the University of Sheffield and corresponding author of the paper, said: «Our findings bring into focus a key part of the food security challenge — resolving the major conflicts embedded in the agri - food system, whose primary purpose is to make money not to provide sustainable global food security.

«[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.

Beyond high food prices, little to show for $ 11B / yr in biofuel support, says OECD report (7/17/2008) Government support of biofuel production in rich countries is squandering vast amounts of amounts of money while exacerbating the global food crisis and failing to meaningfully curb greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy security, alleges a new report from the OECD, the club of industrialized nations.

Extreme weather causes crop production losses, but until now, scientists «did not know exactly how much global production was lost to extreme weather events and how they varied by different regions of the world,» said Navin Ramankutty, a professor of global food security and sustainability at the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia, and one of the study auglobal production was lost to extreme weather events and how they varied by different regions of the world,» said Navin Ramankutty, a professor of global food security and sustainability at the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia, and one of the study auglobal food security and sustainability at the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia, and one of the study auGlobal Issues at the University of British Columbia, and one of the study authors.

«Climate change is a ticking time bomb for global food security,» Olivier De Schutter, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, said Wednesday in Copenhafood security,» Olivier De Schutter, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, said Wednesday in CopenhaFood, said Wednesday in Copenhagen.

«We are still not completely aware of how the Amazonia ecosystem supports water, energy, food and health security,» he said as he promoted the Amazonia Security Agenda, a report authored last year by the Global Canopy Programme (GCP) and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), with support from the Climate & Development Knowledge Network and Fundación Futuro Latinoamsecurity,» he said as he promoted the Amazonia Security Agenda, a report authored last year by the Global Canopy Programme (GCP) and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), with support from the Climate & Development Knowledge Network and Fundación Futuro LatinoamSecurity Agenda, a report authored last year by the Global Canopy Programme (GCP) and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), with support from the Climate & Development Knowledge Network and Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano.

Opening a UN food crisis summit in Rome, Jacques Diouf attacked the subsidies for corn ethanol during a wide - ranging critique of global policies on climate change and food security, which he said were slanted to favour the west.