Sentences with phrase «future of food security»

Over the last 80 years, the US has lost some 93 % of its fruit and vegetable seed diversity, and the number of edible plant varieties grown worldwide has dropped by more than 75 %, which does not bode well for the future of food security.

New commissions include a major multi-disciplinary project on St Petersburg's Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry — one of the world's largest seed banks — and the future of food security and evolution by Callum Cooper.

While emphasizing that the south west holds the future of food security in Nigeria, Governor Ambode said the available massive arable and fertile land had placed the region on a sound footing to use agriculture not only to grow the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the region but also to ensure food availability for the country.

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«The dilemma,» Holmes says, «is how do you improve the sustainability of water supply to increase food security and food production as we go out into the future?»

Whilst not widely recognised, the reuse of phosphorus will be crucial to achieving future food security, supporting farmer livelihoods and buffering against emerging geopolitical risks.

Being a Crawford Fund Scholar provided a wonderful opportunity to meet and hear from a diverse group of people passionate about agriculture and food security, reminded me of the importance of collaborative research projects and reinforced my desire to make a meaningful contribution to agriculture's future.

Prior to this conference, I knew phosphorus was important to the production of our food, but I never realised how crucial the reuse of phosphorus will be to the future food security.

In establishing an international rice futures market, Singapore could also play an important part in helping the world achieve food security, keeping rice prices affordable for poor rice consumers, and ensuring its own supply of rice into the future.

Ecovia Intelligence Comment Future concerns about food security and a looming proteins crisis are some of the factors leading Space10 to create «meatless products» with plant proteins and insects.

In addition to the Great Future Kitchen, The Kraft Heinz Company Foundation is a key supporter of BGCA's national Food Security Initiative to strengthen and expand the impact of food service programming at thousands of Club locations in the Food Security Initiative to strengthen and expand the impact of food service programming at thousands of Club locations in the food service programming at thousands of Club locations in the U.S.

We'd like to remind the group that 80 % of the world's food is produced by small farmers and farmer autonomy is critical to maintaining current and future food security and food sovereignty for everyone.

Announced at the Building Sustainable Futures Forum sponsored by Olam International, the newly - formed GAA is a CEO - led private sector initiative seeking to contribute significantly to the delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, most notably SDG 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture [1].

I think there are going to be, need to be, a lot of practical outcomes for food security in the world in the not too distant future.

Professor Bruce Fitt, professor of plant pathology at the University of Hertfordshire's School of Medical and Life Sciences, said: «There is considerable debate about the impact of climate change on crop production — and making sure that we have sufficient food to feed the ever - growing global population is key to our future food security.»

In a world where more than one billion people do not have enough to eat, and our future food security is threatened by climate change and an ever - growing population, it is essential to improve the control of crop diseases like fusarium ear blight around the globe.

At stake, the study emphasizes, are the futures of food production, our climate and water security.

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.

Down the road, he says, «scientists should not be blamed for not being sensitive for meeting the future food security needs of the country.»

In a new report entitled «Edible Insects: Future prospects for food and feed security ``, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says that farmed insects could make a big contribution to our diets — they contain lots of protein and are cheap to prodfood and feed security ``, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says that farmed insects could make a big contribution to our diets — they contain lots of protein and are cheap to prodFood and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says that farmed insects could make a big contribution to our diets — they contain lots of protein and are cheap to produce.

Because the storm damaged giant swathes of the country's fisheries and rice paddies, the destruction could put the nation at further risk for future food security, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations warfood security, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations warFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations warned.

«Many people in equatorial regions such as Papua New Guinea rely of fish as their main source of protein, so these results raise concerns about future food security in these places.»

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.

Over the years, IRRI has conducted rigorous rice research as part of the mission to ensure food and nutrition security for future generations.

Future impacts of climate change on marine fisheries have the potential to negatively influence a wide range of socio - economic factors, including food security, livelihoods and public health, -LSB-...]

In 1974, the United Nations named Spirulina «one of the best foods for the future» and a 2008 UN Food and Agriculture Organization report stated that «there is a need for both national governments and inter-governmental organizations to reevaluate the potential of Spirulina to fulfill both their own food security needs as well as a tool for their overseas development emergency response efforts.&raFood and Agriculture Organization report stated that «there is a need for both national governments and inter-governmental organizations to reevaluate the potential of Spirulina to fulfill both their own food security needs as well as a tool for their overseas development emergency response efforts.&rafood security needs as well as a tool for their overseas development emergency response efforts.»

The key messages for IYS15 are grounded in the importance of soil for food security and biodiversity: «Soil is a non-renewable resource; its preservation is essential for food security and our sustainable future.»

«We compare farms in the past to farms of today, and look to the future in terms of urban agriculture and food security.

The key to adapting to a changing world because of climate change is diversity — so we are really doing a bad job if we let Monsanto and others take over how our food is grown and do the exact opposite to what is needed to have true food security in the future.

It is natural, and human, to migrate in search of security, shelter, food and a better future, perhaps a place to raise one's children.

He is currently working to develop the WCVM's human and technological resources in the areas of veterinary oncology and food safety and security — two areas that the college is focusing on for the future.

A highly recommended mass action strategy game for the Wii U. I can see future Pikmin game installments adding helpful multitasking options like assigning Pikmin with certain general duties (e.g. security patrol, gather food, etc.) instead of certain tasks on the fly.

In the food security article, «The team found that, in the model, sunshade geoengineering leads to increased crop yields in most regions, both compared with current conditions and with the future projection of doubled carbon dioxide on its own.»

They are on an admirable mission to «promote the use of insects as human food and as animal feed in assuring food security,» according to a fascinating article by Emily Anthes called «Lovely grub — are insects the future of food?»

Since then, he has been working with The Nature Conservancy to address the issues of fisheries resource decline, food security and livelihoods of Palauans in the future.

This work was undertaken as part of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), which is a strategic partnership of CGIAR and Future Earth.

The scope of this chapter, with a focus on food crops, pastures and livestock, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry (commercial forests), aquaculture and fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculturalists and artisanal fishers, is to: examine current climate sensitivities / vulnerabilities; consider future trends in climate, global and regional food security, forestry and fisheries production; review key future impacts of climate change in food crops pasture and livestock production, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry, fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculture; assess the effectiveness of adaptation in offsetting damages and identify adaptation options, including planned adaptation to climate change; examine the social and economic costs of climate change in those sectors; and, explore the implications of responding to climate change for sustainable development.

Ruth Richardson With Richardson at the fore, the Global Alliance for the Future of Food strives for equity, sustainability, and security in the food sysFood strives for equity, sustainability, and security in the food sysfood system.

Huffingtonpost: In a world where almost one billion people are chronically hungry and the current and future state of food security is beset by challenges such as climate change, knowledge and information are powerful.

Without strong signals from consumers, not enough farmers and ranchers will switch to these practices in the timeframe needed to reverse current climate trends that threaten food security and the future of our planet.

Because of the looming specter of climate change that is threatening to disrupt agriculture, we may find that energy policies will have an even greater effect on future food security than agricultural policies do.

The EOLSS contains a vast body of integrated knowledge dedicated to the health, maintenance, and future of the web of life on planet Earth, focusing on the complex connections among all the myriad aspects from natural and social sciences through water, energy, land, food, agriculture, environment, biodiversity, health, education, culture, engineering and technology, management, and development to environmental security!

Food security and sustainable agriculture was one of the most important topics at the recent Rio +20 Summit, for the simple reason that all of us have to eat to survive, and agriculture has to be ecologically sustainable for production to continue into the future.

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As Prof Peirs Forster, an IPCC lead author, wrote of the seminal study he led in 2012: «Food Security: Near future projections of the impact of drought in Asia» «Research released today shows that within the next 10 years large parts of Asia can expect increased risk of more severe droughts, which will impact regional and possibly even global food securFood Security: Near future projections of the impact of drought in Asia» «Research released today shows that within the next 10 years large parts of Asia can expect increased risk of more severe droughts, which will impact regional and possibly even global food sSecurity: Near future projections of the impact of drought in Asia» «Research released today shows that within the next 10 years large parts of Asia can expect increased risk of more severe droughts, which will impact regional and possibly even global food securfood securitysecurity.

This activity report aims to summarize findings on IPCC Expert Meeting, Dublin, Ireland 27 - 29 May 2015, which considered options for future IPCC work on the topic of Climate Change, Food and Agriculture, including food securFood and Agriculture, including food securfood security.

Just five companies (Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, DuPont, and Syngenta) own more than 60 % of the global commercial seed supply, and with many of the modern seed varieties being hybrids that won't breed true for home gardeners and small - scale farmers, or that have regulations outlawing the collection and replanting of seeds, today's growers are being locked into a cycle of reduced genetic diversity, which may lead to a potentially dangerous food security situation in the near future.

More irrigation water in the future may require agricultural expansion to help with food security whereas less water might mean the region moving out of agricultural altogether, decisions with major implications for investment in regional infrastructure.

If we lose the genetic diversity these forests contain, the future security of these foods could be jeopardized, especially in the face of unknown changes in global climate.