Sentences with phrase «from food crises»

This session will focus on understanding potential perils — from food crises to pandemics and from climate catastrophes to human migration — that aren't top - of - mind in most boardrooms, but could enable CEOs to better navigate changing economic conditions and markets.

All because people make money from the food crisis... and we know how human beings react on money...

The area has long suffered from a food crisis brought about by chronic underdevelopment, drought and conflict.

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Such indoor farming — ranging from skyscraper greenhouses to in vitro meat — is altering our definition of agriculture and creating technologies that could stave off a global food crisis.

The chicken producer plunged into crisis Monday after police said BRF executives conspired with laboratories to falsify test results and cover up a salmonella outbreak, the latest fallout from a food - safety investigation that threw the country's meat industry into disarray last year.

The chain is also likely benefiting from the struggles of close peer Chipotle Mexican Grill (cmg), which has struggled in the wake of a food - safety crisis that started last year.

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.

The decision by Chipotle comes as the chain's sales have struggled to rebound from a poorly handled and prolonged food - safety crisis that began in the fall of 2015.

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.

Examples from the last few years include the subprime mortgage crisis; the failure of the Peanut Corporation of America; the 2007 pet food scandal; lead paint on children's toys in 2007; melamine - laced Chinese milk products; contaminants in the drug Heparin; and dioxin - contaminated Irish pork.

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.

I guess that in a world where 39,000 children die each day from preventable disease, where around 90,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq, where the current global food crisis causes a child to die every seven seconds, where 47 million Americans can not afford basic healthcare, and where women and children continue to be murdered in Darfur — nothing says «God is pro-life» better than a bunch of wet democrats.

He explained: «World Vision is applying for permission from the Bangladesh government to provide emergency assistance to all those affected by the crisis starting with food aid.

Experts at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) based in the Philippines say that durable regional agreements on rice production and supply will shield the region from global food crises that may emerge from upheavals in market conditions.

This year, the theme of World Food Day is «food prices — from crisis to stability&raqFood Day is «food prices — from crisis to stability&raqfood prices — from crisis to stability».

While plastic has dominated the public agenda for some time, the food waste crisis continues to percolate, with the latest report from the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) showing that household food waste actually increased by 4.4 per cent from 2012 to 2015.

It was just a couple of weeks ago that I wrote about the global food crisis where the poorest of the poor are being hit the hardest and people in Haiti are resorting to eating dirt «cookies» made from shortening, salt and dirt.

Every time I pick up my kids from school only to discover that they've been chowing down on brownies or chocolate - covered Oreos or candy (which seems to happen at least twice a week), I can't help but think: In the midst of an obesity crisis, why are other people being allowed to shovel my kids full of unhealthy food at school?

Among other things, she addressed the complaints from grassroots reformers that they — not Jamie Oliver — should be getting attention and credit: «Those of us who are truly concerned about the welfare of America's children, health care system, and food supply should be grateful that long - awaited and much - needed attention to what has become at best a national embarrassment, and at worst a national crisis, has finally arrived.»

From animal disease outbreaks, to accidental contamination, food - borne illnesses, and concerns over the provenance or ingredients of foodstuffs, food crises of one form or another are seemingly a regular occurrence.

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.

If there is one lesson to emerge from the BSE crisis and the first generation of genetically modified foods, it is this: science can not reasonably expect the public to develop an appetite for novel foods unless they offer clear and fundamental benefits in terms of taste and nutritional value.

He fed them blood (collected from a slaughterhouse, not anybody's favorite part of doing science) and then created short artificial food crises, recording dozens of observations of blood sharing.

The government's caution is widely perceived as a reaction to a furious backlash from the public against genetically modified foods and crops, and public suspicion of experts and government in the wake of the crisis over BSE, or «mad cow disease.»

In particular, IIASA researchers will focus on how potential phosphorus market crises might put pressure on the global food system and create environmental ripple effects ranging from expansion of agricultural land to phosphorus price - induced changes in land management, which could exacerbate the already existing imbalance between carbon, phosphorus and nitrogen.

Jennifer Robins turned to whole foods following a life - altering health crisis and no help from traditional treatments.

Comprised of 6 mini-games or missions, the game takes young players from an initial crisis assessment through to delivery and distribution of food aid, with each sequential mission addressing a particular aspect of this challenging process.

But it was the research for Matters of Faith — about a Florida family with a daughter who suffers from severe food allergies, how her brother's search for faith jeopardizes her life, and how their parents cope with that crisis while dealing with a crumbling marriage at the same time — that I'll always remember for pulling me in both intellectually and emotionally.

The first is the company's conservative dividend payout ratios, which allow it plenty of safety cushion during bad economic times, when sales of specialty foods and demand from restaurants can decrease, which happened during the financial crisis.

Programs include Rescue, Adoption or re-homing animals that have been taken from crisis situations and provided with food, shelter, medical care, life saving surgeries, spay / neuter and a permanent microchip identity.

In 2016 we distributed 84,514 pounds of food from our food bank; 63,051 pounds went to 53 shelters and rescues, 8,710 pounds went to 190 families in crisis situations, and 12,753 pounds of food and supplies were given to 63 home bound seniors.

In fact, war in the Congo has directly resulted in crisis level food insecurity (= increased demand for meat from killing forest animals including bonobos), countless numbers of displaced people who pose added burdens on demand for food, rife levels of corruption and mismanagement, immeasurable but vast numbers of weapons and munitions distributed across the country, large - scale break down of traditional taboos that may have locally protected some populations of bonobos, and much, much more.

The IMF and World Bank officials made dire predictions about the crisis, which derives mainly from food crop land being switched to biofuels.

Their incomes have not risen sufficiently to protect them from shocks, such as the impending food crisis in the Sahel region.

In all 15 million people face food insecurity in eight nations across the Sahel, a region that is still recovering from drought and a food crisis of 2010.

(07/17/2008) 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.

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.

(06/14/2008) The emergence and expansion of biofuels produced from food crops has exacerabted world's agriculture and water crisis and is a bigger short - term threat than global warming, argued Peter Brabeck - Letmathe in an editorial published Thursday in the Wall Street Journal Asia.

Groundwater depletion is embedded in the international food trade, with countries exporting crops grown from overexploited aquifers and setting up potential future food crises if the aquifers run dry.

Recent food riots from Egypt to Haiti highlight the burgeoning crisis of people unable to afford the cost of a simple bowl of rice.

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.

Only last month we saw headlines from two studies arguing that land use changes may nix any environmental benefits of many biofuels, while they have also been singled out as a contributing factor in the looming food crisis.

Though the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression has recently brought food prices down from their peak, they still remain well above their long - term average levels.

That is not to say many Americans couldn't benefit from portion control and more self - control, but our food system is so complex, it is useful to see efforts like this video highlighting the other factors that play a role in our growing health crisis.

As far as I can see, one of the things that others have been trying to get at in this thread is that, owing to chronic reductions in crop yield, acute crises from droughts or flooding, and (in the case of ocean acidification) reduced productivity of ocean biomes exploited for food sources, starvation is a potential (if not yet 100 % certain) climate impact, especially in tropical / subtropical regions.

The researchers say the study raises concern that current pressures on farmland from population growth and climate change could worsen current food crises by leading to similar events in other regions.

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.

By using lawyers to solve legal problems that can cause illness — from fixing faulty furnaces to navigating immigration rules that may make patients afraid to apply for food or housing assistance — doctors believe they can prevent more serious health crises, such as malnutrition, job loss, and domestic violence.»

As the generation that received peak levels of income, they benefited from abundant levels of food, apparel, retirement programs and sometimes even «midlife crisis» products.

Of course, Chipotle has its own problems to deal with as it tries to rebound from a food - safety crisis, but other companies like Dunkin' Brands Group Inc. and Starbucks Corp. are among those with lofty store opening plans in the U.S. and abroad.