Sentences with phrase «global agriculture»

Her work focuses on the impacts of climate variations on animal and plant life, and change on global agriculture and urban areas.

In fact, organic farming in general is one of the fastest - growing segments of global agriculture during the past decade.

Scientists are currently documenting another cause of heavy - metal pollution in global agriculture.

The year 2013 has been a great year for global agriculture.

Climate change greatly affects global agriculture as well as individual health and welfare.

There are numerous research and models that show the impact of climate change on global agriculture and all of them show decrease in food production and deterioration in health and welfare.

This combined $ 170 billion deal binge promises to have a profound impact on the future of global agriculture.

As of May 2, 2018 the iShares MSCI Global Agriculture Producers ETF MSCI ESG Fund Quality Score is 5.20 out of 10.

My second purchase was the iShare MSCI Global Agriculture Producers ETF.

On this panel, we consider how global agriculture will need to evolve in order to provide modern diets for everyone without converting what remains of the planets undeveloped areas into farms.

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She will be joined by Chris Sturman (chief executive, Food Storage & Distribution Federation), Ian Wright (director general, Food & Drink Federation), Gavin Partington (director general, British Soft Drinks Association), Mike Berthet (market development manager EU, Global Agriculture Alliance), and Nigel Jenney (CEO, Fresh Produce Consortium).

As a consequence of commercialization of GE products and advanced genetic technologies global agriculture production continued to increase but at insufficient levels to keep abreast of the growing population that now competes with the growing need for biofuels and other biomaterials.

BPL: Our entire global agriculture and civilization grew up when Ts was 287 or 288 K for something like 10,000 years.

Global agriculture now relies heavily on declining non-renewable resources, in particular fuel and artificial fertilisers.

Innumerable experiments have demonstrated that higher CO2 concentrations are beneficial for plant growth and therefore benefit global agriculture.

TIAA - CREF Global Agriculture, one of the largest corporations on the international land market, is buying huge tracts of land in Brazil's Cerrado region.

Outreach: Dr. Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, CEO of Food Agriculture Natural Resources Policy Advocacy Network and spokesperson for global agriculture coalition Farming First Women are the fountain of life.

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.

Even reducing greenhouse gases by other major offenders like non-renewable energy won't be enough to meet the goals of the Paris climate agreement if global agriculture isn't addressed further, argues the research team, led by the University of Vermont's Eva Wollenberg.

In order to stay below the two - degree warming limit, global agriculture needs to slash non-CO2 emissions, like methane and nitrous oxide, by one gigaton per year by 2030.

Those negotiations will sometimes look like trade negotiations, sometimes like IMF negotiations, and sometimes like global agriculture or public health efforts.

Such rapid rises in global temperatures could decimate global agriculture, coastal cities, and many ecosystems.

It is part of their 10 - year program, The CIGAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and it will be the role of the commission to devise new policies on global agriculture so that the world is better prepared for climate change.

Perhaps the most significant achievement of the 23rd United Nations Climate Summit in Bonn in November, or COP23, was the ending of a six - year stalemate on how to address global agriculture in developed and developing countries.

I am very pleased to report on the progress of our ongoing initial coin offering for KROPS, the world's first global agriculture marketplace.

ChemChina's own presence in global agriculture is wide but paper - thin; it mostly sells low - profit commodity agrochemicals.

Modern Farmer summarizes the report's projections for global agriculture, which are less specific than in the past but more concerned than ever with the challenges of feeding a growing population in a warming world.

Now, a new study, which is featured in the journal Nature, points to global agriculture as another culprit that contributes to climate change in the same way that fossil fuels do.

This report discusses the need for a sustainable intensification» of global agriculture in which yields are increased without adverse environmental impact and without the cultivation of more land.

The iShares MSCI Global Agriculture Producers Fund tracks a market - cap - weighted index of companies that are sensitive to agricultural commodity prices.

The producer of phosphate and potash nutrients for the global agriculture industry is based in Plymouth, Minn..

Jim Cramer hears from Agco Chairman and CEO Martin Richenhagen about how his global agriculture equipment manufacturer is faring in a time of trade tensions.

VEGI is one of the best funds for capturing the global agriculture space.

Growing scarcity In addition to a growing scarcity of natural resources such as land, water and biodiversity «global agriculture will have to cope with the effects of climate change, notably higher temperatures, greater rainfall variability and more frequent extreme weather events such as floods and droughts,» Diouf warned.

Compare this to the fierce determination and focus of our other cousins, the New Zealanders, who worked out long ago that to be relevant in global agriculture, you have to be big, nimble, and at the risk of sounding xenophobic, in control of your own destiny.

Accounting for 60 % of global agriculture, he will make the case to protect and encourage smallholdings for sustainability.

Friends of the Earth food campaigner Vicki Hird said: «Gordon Brown is right to draw attention to the need to waste less food, but he must also use his sway at the G8 to urge a rethink on global agriculture and food production.

He also holds investments in Monsanto, the global agriculture giant.

By IFPRI's estimate, 25 million more children will be malnourished in 2050 due to the impact of climate change on global agriculture.

A new study attempts to estimate the effects of climate change on global agriculture — and outline ways to mitigate its most dire consequences

Worldwide, energy is a $ 3 - trillion - a-year operation, twice the size of global agriculture and four or five times larger than all the world's military expenses.

Overall, global agriculture can keep up with growing demand if the weather is favorable, but even the mildly poor 2010 growing season was enough to force a draw down in stockpiles of grain outside China, which sent total grain stocks to very low levels.

«Our findings capture which critical regions around the world hold the wild diversity we need for the stability of global agriculture,» says study co-author Colin Khoury, a crop diversity specialist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Cali, Colombia.