Sentences with phrase «from food scarcity»

For instance, yeast usually require Sir2p, SIRT1's cousin, to gain life extension from food scarcity.

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I'm not really sure how to transition from talking about food access and scarcity to wowing you with this beautiful salad... So, let's just wow you with this beautiful salad.

Hormel Foods also recognizes that water scarcity and sourcing from water stressed regions is a growing concern across all industries — including the food industry — and companies need to play an active role in ceasing this trend.

Because of the necessity of removing the corpses of ruminants from farming, «vultures have been faced with a scarcity of food, which has caused them to make changes in their diet by consuming a higher quantity of hunting species,» the researcher explains.

Now an analysis of bone and hair samples from the notorious duo has backed the theory that scarcity drives dietary specialisation, and shows that food preferences can diverge within co-operating groups.

From that perspective, it becomes clear that humans are prone to obesity because our bodies evolved in an environment of scarcity, where consuming as much high - energy food as possible was a useful survival strategy.

China's wetlands have shrunk nearly 9 percent since 2003, forestry officials said on Monday, aggravating water scarcity in a country where food production, energy output and industrial activity are already under pressure from water shortages.

Instead, the report focuses on problems that are likely to disproportionately hit developing countries: coastal inundation from rising sea levels, plummeting food production and associated malnutrition, unprecedented heat waves, increasing fresh water scarcity, more frequent and intense tropical cyclones, and the loss of biodiversity.

Shortages of fertile females were particularly common in times of food scarcity, when baboon troops distance themselves from each other and females take 15 percent longer between successive births — which means males who don't kill have even longer to wait.

BEIJING (Reuters)- China's wetlands have shrunk nearly 9 percent since 2003, forestry officials said on Monday, aggravating water scarcity in a country where food production, energy output and industrial activity are already under pressure from water shortages.

Now an analysis of bone and hair samples from the notorious duo has backed the theory that scarcity drives dietary specialisation, and shows that food preferences can diverge within cooperating groups.

The neurons make us eat when there's an availability of food, and when there's a scarcity of food, they switch our bodies into a preserving mode to prevent us from burning fat.

My view: It was silly of the anti-carb panelists to refuse to credit the Okinawan data, but it is also misleading to say that the «traditional diet» of Okinawans is 85 % carb based on data from a period of starvation and food scarcity.

Scarcity of resources from the environment (clean air, water, food, energy, land etc.) leads to violent conflicts within nations, and to war and terrorism between nations.13 Neomalthusians have argued that global environmental change leads to scarcities of resources that could lead to societal collapse.

Scarcity of resources from the environment (clean air, water, food, energy, land etc.) leads to violent conflicts within nations, and to war and terrorism between nations.

Scarcity of resources from the environment — be it clean air, water, food, energy, or land — leads to violent conflicts within nations, and to war and terrorism between nations

From the foothills of the Himalayas to the lush farms of Brittany, the Lappés expose the false tradeoffs within corporate globalization: chemical agriculture or starvation; genetically modified foods or scarcity; corporate capitalism or chaos.

In related news, in the distant future — some say the near future — North America, northern Asia and Europe will see millions of climate refugees from southern lands trekking northward, as you know, and our descendants in 2121 or 2222 might all might be under threat from the devastating impacts of» climate chaos» — from rising sea levels to a scary scarcity of food, fuel and shelter.

What if we were sitting on the answers to the world's most pressing challenges, from food security to water scarcity and everything in between?

By 2025, droughts, food shortages and scarcity of fresh water will plague large swaths of the globe, from northern China to the Horn of Africa.

Scarcity of food sources from destruction of farmland and pastoral areas because of changing climatic conditions, he said, has helped foment wars in his country, including the one in Darfur.

As for now, as deforestation continues, pollution of the air, the land, and the waters continues, the consumption of oil, gas, and coal is the order of the day, and the poor masses of this world are suffering from stresses of food and water scarcity, political conflict and bloody war, well, it is not easy to believe that our musicians are going to start singing any songs of true enlightenment, as concerns both the social and natural environments of ours.

From Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity by Lester R. Brown (New York: W.W. Norton & Co.).

Adapted from Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity by Lester R. Brown (New York: W.W. Norton & Co.).

The world is in transition from an era of food abundance to one of scarcity.

Water and food scarcity, flooding or extreme weather events, violent conflicts, economic collapses, and a number of other climate damages could precipitate mass migration to the United States from regions worldwide.

«Though heavily packed with statistical information and evidences compiled from the work of hundreds of scientists, this book is an approachable resource for those who are interested in understanding food scarcity, regardless of their educational background.»

For more information, see «Meat Consumption in China Now Double That in the United States,» by Janet Larsen, and the latest book from Earth Policy Institute, Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity, by Lester R. Brown.

Every major environmental trend from climate change to deforestation and water scarcity affect food supplies.

The IPCC has already concluded that it is «virtually certain that human influence has warmed the global climate system» and that it is «extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010» is anthropogenic.1 Its new report outlines the future threats of further global warming: increased scarcity of food and fresh water; extreme weather events; rise in sea level; loss of biodiversity; areas becoming uninhabitable; and mass human migration, conflict and violence.

If women and girls bear the greatest burdens from floods, food scarcity and other climate extremes globally, can they also be empowered to strengthen their families and communities to cope with impacts of a changing climate?

From feeding the 5000 with waste food to growing produce on a supermarket roof, we've already seen plenty of projects that are taking on the notion of food scarcity by reveling in abundance and possibility.

I don't know what the exact number is, but there have certainly been deaths from starvation directly relating to high food prices, and scarcity of food.

They posit, in a similar vein, that when individuals are faced with many decisions that demand trade - offs — such as a scarcity of food, time or money — and do not have a chance to recover from the resulting brain drain, self - control can tank.