Sentences with phrase «future food system»

Small - scale agriculture and traditional ecological knowledge of farmers and indigenous people are as — if not more — important to a future food system than genetic engineering and capital - intensive forms of agriculture.
While dreams of our future food system may rely on the romantic image of local farmers, the reality is: this model can't do what we need it to do, that is, feed billions of people.
Safe or Not, This is About Corporate Control of Agriculture Which is very much appropriate, but to me the bigger question is the one brought up by the leader from Kerala: What do we want a future food system to look like?
FRESH begins to suggest what at least part of our future food system might look like...» - Frederick Kirschenmann, Distinguished Fellow, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
I feel that understanding the impact of your decisions in purchasing (and all your decisions) will help you address your current needs but also help the needs of the future food system.
In addition to his many contributions in health sciences, he wants his biggest contribution to be leading the development of a profitable and a world positive future food system.
Leaders from across South Asia recently called for increased investment in conservation agriculture to protect future food systems across the region.

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One of the things we're most excited about is the future of food in this country, and how we could figure out ways to develop a more robust food system that actually pays back dividends locally.
«Once pollutants get into the ground water, they move pretty freely, so it makes a lot of sense to expand the types of waters covered by the EPA,» said Bob Martin director of food system policy, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future.
Despite being an issue that impacts every American, the future of our food system was not a centerpiece of either presidential campaign.
It covers an automated food service ordering system comprising non-transitory computer - readable media storing executable instructions to obtain historical context data indicating past statuses associated with one or more customers; obtain historical menu item ordering data indicating past times during which customers ordered menu items from each of multiple food services; obtain context data from a personal electronic device that indicates current, recent or scheduled statuses of a user, including caloric intake or exercise activity; determining a future time for delivery of a menu item based on the obtained data; selecting a future food service from the multiple food services; determining a lead time for an order for the menu item; and initiating the order for the future food service by at least the lead time.
Juliette Majot, executive director at IATP, will lead the discussion on Transparency in the Food System, and William Warshauer, president and CEO of TechnoServe will discuss The Future of Food.
The FSA has pledged its support to WRAP, which brings together organisations from across the food system to make food and drink production and consumption more sustainable for the future.
«Sharing expertise to shape the future of food and health products» Ingredia Dairy Experts is a dairy company which develops and produces milk powders, milk proteins, functional systems and innovative bioactive ingredients for the food and nutrition &...
BARS will assist CSIRO to deliver on its commitment to increase food production in cropping and livestock systems, improve drought tolerance and disease resistance, and improve nutritional values to meet the challenges of the future.
The Canadian food industry has made it clearer than ever that these unsustainable and inhumane cages have no future in pork production, and we encourage pork producers to make the transition to group housing systems as quickly as possible.»
Our food safety systems are risk based with an emphasis on hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP), hazard analysis and risk - based preventive controls (HARPC) where applicable, vulnerability assessments and strong prerequisite programmes to meet current and future requirements.
Through the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, the dairy community supports socially responsible, economically viable and environmentally sound dairy food systems that promote the current and future health and well - being of our consumers, communities, cows, employees, businesses and planet.
Members of the public who attend the full - day Good Food Festival programming have the opportunity to learn directly from experienced farmers and gardeners through long - form DIY workshops and «Good Food Commons» mini-sessions; hear from thought leader panelists about the future of our agricultural system; watch cooking demos, emphasizing local food, by culinary leaders such as Frontera's Rick Bayless and One Off Hospitality's Paul Kahan (both past recipients of FamilyFarmed's Good Food Chef of the Year Award); and engage with more than 150 farmer, food business, and nonprofit exhibitFood Festival programming have the opportunity to learn directly from experienced farmers and gardeners through long - form DIY workshops and «Good Food Commons» mini-sessions; hear from thought leader panelists about the future of our agricultural system; watch cooking demos, emphasizing local food, by culinary leaders such as Frontera's Rick Bayless and One Off Hospitality's Paul Kahan (both past recipients of FamilyFarmed's Good Food Chef of the Year Award); and engage with more than 150 farmer, food business, and nonprofit exhibitFood Commons» mini-sessions; hear from thought leader panelists about the future of our agricultural system; watch cooking demos, emphasizing local food, by culinary leaders such as Frontera's Rick Bayless and One Off Hospitality's Paul Kahan (both past recipients of FamilyFarmed's Good Food Chef of the Year Award); and engage with more than 150 farmer, food business, and nonprofit exhibitfood, by culinary leaders such as Frontera's Rick Bayless and One Off Hospitality's Paul Kahan (both past recipients of FamilyFarmed's Good Food Chef of the Year Award); and engage with more than 150 farmer, food business, and nonprofit exhibitFood Chef of the Year Award); and engage with more than 150 farmer, food business, and nonprofit exhibitfood business, and nonprofit exhibitors.
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.
This year, Bruce Pascoe is set to highlight the importance of events such as the Food Sovereignty Convergence in recognising the impact of First People's land management practices, and how the future of farming could look if we work with the First Peoples of Australia to utilise their «grossly undervalued» knowledge to improve farming systems in this country.
Recognising the lack of vision and leadership on these profound questions, the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance was formed in 2010, consciously linking Australia to the global movement for food sovereignty, with the aim of promoting a different, values - based national conversation on the future of our food and farming systFood Sovereignty Alliance was formed in 2010, consciously linking Australia to the global movement for food sovereignty, with the aim of promoting a different, values - based national conversation on the future of our food and farming systfood sovereignty, with the aim of promoting a different, values - based national conversation on the future of our food and farming systfood and farming systems.
«The world's growing population has implications for land, environment and resources, so ensuring food systems are fit for the future is one of the biggest challenges of our time.
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And I am confident that all of the initiatives being formed around the world will spread and set precedence for the way we think about Food Systems in the future, and impact the choices we make.
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Second, Cooper believes that market limitations and peculiarities in how the USDA commodity food system works practically ensure LFTB beef in schools for the foreseeable future.
The group is planning future purchases with an eye toward foods that are typically too costly for most school systems, such as whole pieces of beef, avocado, pineapples and good quality spices, Goldstein said.
... Cooper believes that market limitations and peculiarities in how the USDA commodity food system works practically ensure LFTB beef in schools for the foreseeable future.
«It's like a family saving $ 5,000 for future roof repairs when they can't afford to put food on the table,» said John Murphy, former executive director of NYCERS, the city's biggest pension system.
This document will serve has a road map for the next ten years to identify and provide resources to insure our agriculture and food system stays strong and vibrant for our future
Meanwhile, development organizations acknowledge that the two - prong approach that Clinton outlined — stepping up efforts to provide emergency relief while working simultaneously to strengthen systems and prevent future food emergencies — might not be possible everywhere.
A group of researchers from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found that DNA vaccines can have the perverse effect of «tolerizing» the immune system, perhaps weakening any future response to the real pathogen.
The natural systems that provide oxygen, clean water, food, storm and erosion protection, natural products, and the potential for future resources, such as new genetic stocks for cultivation, must be protected, not just because it is part of good stewardship but also so that they can take care of us.
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.
To feed the future humans living on Mars or the moon the project Food for Mars and Moon aims to set up a sustainable agricultural system.
«There is no transparency about who is influencing decisions about the future of global ecosystems, people's livelihoods, or our food system,» said Dana Perls of Friends of the Earth in Berkeley, California.
These systems are important for understanding the past and planning for the future due to their potential for direct impact on very current issues such as food security and the sustainability of human settlement in particular areas.»
«This effort helped rescue the food security and livelihoods of more than 271,000 rural households and 1.6 million individuals in Ethiopia's Amhara, Oromia, Tigray, and SNNP regions, and strengthened seed systems to address future climate, disease, and pest crises,» said Bekele Abeyo, CIMMYT wheat scientist who led the seed relief initiative.
With a focus on topics like surplus, obesity, poverty, and climate change, the author examines how food is produced and consumed and how we can look to human and agricultural history to create a food system that will provide in the future.
We, as consumers, are essentially voting with each item we purchase at the store and each meal we prepare (or don't) what the future of our food system will be.
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Besides food affecting our microbiome (March 2012 summation of: «Human nutrition, the gut microbiome, and immune system: envisioning the future «-RRB-, we know that what we inhale, toxins we ingest (even dental sealants), and what our skin absorbs all sees the gut sooner or later and our biome adjusts to deal with all the compounds and metabolites that it sees.
Themes such as global citizenship, human rights, democracy, food safety, the solar system and creativity, intergalactic citizenship, societies of the future and the moral lessons of Star Trek.
In general elevating the food and water bowls helps cats to reduce the strain when leaning their bodies, which helps to avoid future problems in the spine, hips or digestive system.
Using the Menu for the Future discussion course books, the groups are exploring the confusing number of food choices and contradicting information around health, fair trade, industrial agriculture, organics, family farms, sustainable food systems, GMOs and more.
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Northwest Earth Institute's discussion courses Menu for the Future (revised edition released in April) and Hungry for Change: Food, Ethics and Sustainability explore the interconnections of our food systems and our relationship to and responsibility in these systFood, Ethics and Sustainability explore the interconnections of our food systems and our relationship to and responsibility in these systfood systems and our relationship to and responsibility in these systems.
Using the Menu for the Future discussion course book (created by the Northwest Earth Institute), these groups of diverse citizens explored the confusing number of food choices and contradicting information around health, fair trade, industrial agriculture, organics, family farms, sustainable food systems, GMOs and other juicy topics related to the food system.
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