Sentences with phrase «from global agriculture»
Despite the claims of mid-century malthusians, output from global agriculture has succeeded in keeping up with rapidly growing demands from a population that has grown from 3 billion in 1960 to 7 billion today.
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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.
Global consumption of avocados, now a $ 3 billion industry, has doubled in the last decade, and a third of the 3.8 million tonne annual harvest is currently traded internationally, according to data from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations.
Washington is wide - open for business, from aerospace and advanced agriculture to clean technology, information technology and global health.
This implies that risks are not too big or overarching (like resource scarcity, rising levels of atmospheric CO2, or global warming) but are more focused e.g. extreme weather, increased greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture or from energy use, or a lack of fresh water.
Particularly, the overlap between food and water, exemplified here in the case of water - efficient agriculture, an opportunity from Global Opportunity Report 2015, is shaping up to be a booming market in the coming years.
Lauren lives in Chattanooga, with her husband, Scott Phillips, who is a portfolio manager of the Global Maximum Pessimism Fund and author of the investing book, Buying at the Point Maximum Pessimism: Six Value Investing Trends from China to Oil to Agriculture, 2010, FT Press, and co-author to the revised edition of The Templeton Touch, 2012, Templeton Press.
Rabobank, a global food and agriculture bank dedicated to building a better food future, reports key trends from FoodBytes!
It accounts for almost a quarter of global emissions, including about 10 to 11 percent from deforestation, and the rest from agriculture, itself the main driver of deforestation.
The Rainforest Alliance certification program's steering committee, consisting of senior staff from different departments, ensures effective coordination, information sharing, and planning related to the global sustainable agriculture certification program.
Today Rodale Institute, the global leader of regenerative organic agriculture, announced it has received a grant for $ 5,995,000 from the William Penn Foundation to partner with Stroud Water Research Center, the global leader in the advancement of knowledge and stewardship of freshwater systems, on a groundbreaking project to improve soil health and water quality.
It included short presentations and proof points from global dairy leaders as well as from Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on the contribution of the dairy sector to the achievement of key Sustainable Development Goals such as ending poverty and hunger, and protecting the environment.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the livestock sector is «one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global».
This was a 10 day conference including 75 2015 Nuffield scholars from around the world and myself, learning about the global view on world agriculture.
Dana Cordell receives funding from RIRDC, DAFF, GRDC, CSIRO Sustainable Agriculture, Global Phosphate Forum, Novozymes.
Stuart White receives funding from the CSIRO Sustainable Agriculture, Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Grains Research and Development Corporation, Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, Global Phosphate Forum, Novozymes.
March 2015 IFPRI — Advances and Setbacks in Global Food Security African Communication Vale Dr Lloyd Evans Tree Seed Training [ACT] Cow talk [Vic] Plant Breeders Without Borders [Vic] Climate Smart Agriculture From Famine to Feast in 40 Years
Australian agriculture is riding high on the back of unprecedented wool prices driven by demand from China and shifts in the global textile industry.
Highland, which has 435 employees, has grown from a regional supplier of agriculture packaging products into a global packaging company with 2017 net sales of approximately $ 90m.
A total of 500 of the top global companies from four key sectors (apparel, agriculture, ICT and extractives) will initially be researched and ranked.
He said Nigeria is not excepted from impacts of the current global economic downturn, adding his administration remained undeterred and has embarked on comprehensive diversification reforms by shifting emphasis to non-oil sectors of «mining, agriculture, industrialization, infrastructure development and the creation of the enabling environment for Foreign Direct Investment.»
@SilverbackNet Nearly a quarter of global carbon emissions are from 3rd world slash and burn agriculture.
«Global methane emissions from agriculture larger than reported, according to new estimates.»
Detailed global maps of key traits in higher plants have been made available for the first time, thanks to work led by researchers from the University of Minnesota's (UMN) College of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS).
The International Energy Agency first said two years ago that global energy - sector emissions had declined while the world expanded economically, though critics point out that the measurement excludes emissions from other sources, such as agriculture (ClimateWire, March 17).
The early detection and responses was only possible due to long - term collaboration between Aarhus University in Denmark, the National Agricultural Research Institute (INRA) in France, the Julius Kühn Institute in Germany, the National Institute for Agricultural Botany in the United Kingdom, the International Wheat and Maize Improvement Centre Mexico, the International Centre of Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, and the University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan, emphasizes Professor Mogens Støvring Hovmøller from the Department of Agroecology at Aarhus University, where he leads the Global Rust Reference Centre.
During the early 2000s, environmental scientists studying methane emissions noticed something unexpected: the global concentrations of atmospheric methane (CH4)-- which had increased for decades, driven by methane emissions from fossil fuels and agriculture — inexplicably leveled off.
The book shows how the «debt boomerang» on its return trip contributes to disturbing global climate and reducing biodiversity, flooding Northern markets with cocaine, extorting money from you and me to subsidise commercial banks, robbing Northern industry and agriculture of hundreds of thousands of jobs, encouraging immigration to the North and contributing to global instability.
Twelve industrialized nations and six developing countries have formed a research alliance to focus on measuring and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, which accounts for 14 % of global emissions.
Belches, burps and flatulence from these sheep over the next three years could help to quantify the contribution of British agriculture to global warming.
The team used genetic information collected on field from tiger faecal samples, to understand how landscape features — like roads and agriculture — impact tiger movement in Central India, a global high priority tiger conservation landscape.
«We focused on agriculture because global food demand is expected to double by mid-century, and new or improved roads are vital for farmers,» said Dr Gopalasamy Reuben Clements from James Cook.
The new study, led by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization and published in Global Change Biology, quantifies the reductions in climate pollution from the degradation and clearcutting of forests.
-- The Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall conduct a joint scientific review, within 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, to evaluate how sources of biomass from Federal lands could contribute to the goals of increasing America's energy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollution.
Global Challenges and Directions for Agricultural Biotechnology — Workshop Report Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources and Board on Life Sciences, Division on Earth and Life Studies (2008, 74 pp.; ISBN 0 -309-12077-2; available from NAP).
The consequences of climate change are being felt not only in the environment, but in the entire socio - economic system and, as seen in the findings of numerous reports already available, they will impact first and foremost the poorest and weakest who, even if they are among the least responsible for global warming, are the most vulnerable because they have limited resources or live in areas at greater risk... Many of the most vulnerable societies, already facing energy problems, rely upon agriculture, the very sector most likely to suffer from climatic shifts.»
This seminar, intended for students from all academic majors, will examine the evolution of energy supply, energy demand and the global energy system as a whole, from the rise of photosynthesis to the development of agriculture, the Industrial revolution, and the modern, carbon - constrained world.
Data currently being collected about the impact on Lake Turkana's food web and fisheries from hydroelectric and agriculture projects may prove vital to a growing global population whose fresh water sources have become increasingly taxed.
how we could reverse global warming in 15 years with a switch from industrial to pastured agriculture
According to a new report from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), global fish consumption has reached its highest level ever.
Stronger international prices of cereals and dairy drove global food commodity prices up in March, marketing the second month of a consecutive increase, according to the latest data from the UN's Food Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The growing global demand for food and bio-energy, and the recent rises in food prices, slow down progress in reducing poverty, but increase demand for water from the agriculture and energy sectors.
Global Resource: OpenLandContracts.org Launches, Access Contracts From Large - Scale Land and Agriculture Projects (Infodocket)
Lauren lives in Chattanooga, with her husband, Scott Phillips, who is a portfolio manager of the Global Maximum Pessimism Fund and author of the investing book, Buying at the Point Maximum Pessimism: Six Value Investing Trends from China to Oil to Agriculture, 2010, FT Press, and co-author to the revised edition of The Templeton Touch, 2012, Templeton Press.
Organizations like the WHO, World Organization for Animal Health, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and Global Alliance for the Control of Rabies are working together to vaccinate dogs in hopes of eliminating human deaths from rabies.
WHO, with its partners the Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations (FAO), World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), and the Global Alliance for Rabies Control, is developing an international action plan to reach zero human deaths from dog - transmitted rabies by 2030.
WHO, with its partners the Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations (FAO), World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), and the Global Alliance for Rabies Control, is developing an international action plan to reach zero human deaths from dog - transmitted rabies by 2030.
In light of these matters, why would we want to expend the energy and resources to treat a symptom of planetary CO2 poisoning and take all the risks that LG describes when it pretty clear that the best approach is a wildly ambitious conversion to very low emission energy / transportation / agriculture systems followed by a wildly ambitious global program of CO2 sequestration / removal from the oceans and / or atmosphere to push the needle back down under 400 ppm in a decade or two at most?
This is your hardest question to answer, as the question seems to presuppose their are other sources of heat that are warming up the earth other than global warming due to CO2, methane, nitrous oxide (from agriculture and fertilisers) and CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons, from refrigerants etc) accumulating in the atmosphere from mankind's various activities.
Given the new burst of concern over volatile and rising global food prices from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and various aid and environmental campaigners, late last week I sent some questions to a broad array of scholars and analysts focused on global resources and demands.