Sentences with phrase «global agriculture as»

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

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.

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He wants to build a global company that helps farmers everywhere manage their fields on a plant - by - plant level, mainstreaming artificial intelligence as an integral part of agriculture.

Early this month, a report commissioned by Quebec Agriculture Minister Pierre Paradis, who sought a review of how the federation regulates supply, found that Quebec's share of global supply has dropped by 10 % in a decade — even as demand and output rose.

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

In May 2015 under the Turkey Presidency, the G20 agriculture ministers highlighted the extent of food loss and waste (FLW) as «a global problem of enormous economic, environmental and societal significance» and encouraged all G20 members to strengthen their collective efforts to prevent and reduce FLW.

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.

Record global wheat stockpiles may be even larger than expected, as China cuts back on use and the EU harvests a bigger crop, a US Department of Agriculture report showed.

Furthermore they implement projects, with global and regional partners, which facilitate conversion to Organic Agriculture, empower local stakeholders and strengthen supply chains as well as help raise consumer awareness and shape the future of the organic sector by training a new generation of leaders through our Organic Leadership Courses and other services.

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.

We continue to support the wheat and barley industries in the face of global challenges such as climate change, food and fuel security and sustainable agriculture practices.

As a global food company, we believe we have a significant role to play in helping to end hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture (UN SDG 2).

The oil is also used in animal feed, and while major global retail chains, multiples and manufacturers such as Arla, Danone, Kelloggs, M&S and Unilever have already begun to show their support for sustainable palm oil products, the agriculture industry has been slower to catch on.

As a global food company, we believe we have a significant role to play in helping end hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture (UN SDG 2).

The G20 agriculture ministers highlighted the extent of food loss and waste (FLW) as «a global problem of enormous economic, environmental and societal significance» and encouraged all G20 members to strengthen their collective efforts to reduce FLW.

Huang Dafang, a member of the biosafety committee in charge of agricultural GM organisms, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Agriculture, said that using a new generation of GM crops, such as golden rice, to achieve nutritional improvements is now a global trend.

Working with Worms to Fight Climate Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative impacts.

In 2005 the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, which monitors the state of the world's forests every few years, reported that 13 million hectares of global forests are lost annually, including 6 million hectares of what are described as primary forests - some of the most biologically diverse ecological systems in the world.

He lamented over what he regarded as era of extinction of crude oil in the world, saying the sharp drop in the global prices of crude oil was a signal to the fact that government at all levels need to shift face to agriculture.

They note that global efforts have successfully helped to curb other causes of Amazon loss, such as agriculture and cattle.

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).

In September, scientists examining global tree cover discovered that while there are 3 trillion trees on Earth — more than seven times as many as scientists thought — the planet has lost 46 percent of its forests since the onset of agriculture about 12,000 years ago.

The Oct. 11 - 13 conference, based in Hanover, Germany, assembled a global group of bioethics and government experts to address security questions on gene editing as they relate to human health, agriculture and the potential to genetically alter species.

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UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released its latest report on global fisheries and aquaculture with no new 2008 catch and production figures, as the agency continues to piece together 2007 data.

They examined 20 renewable resources, such as maize, rice, wheat or soya, which represent around 45 % of the global calorie intake according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO of the UN), as well as animal products, such as fish, meat, milk and egg.

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.»

The connections to irrigation practices and global grain supplies, to Conservation Reserve Program land, to cover - cropping practices, and to fire risks alluded to in this section and elsewhere in this assessment are all reminders that the interdependence of livestock and crop agriculture will likely loom large as Montana experiences the cumulative effects of climate change.

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.

Altogether, this should allow a major reduction in agriculture emissions, as global food waste and loss account for 3.3 Gt of CO2 equivalent per year.

AGCO, Your Agriculture Company, (NYSE: AGCO) is a global manufacturer and distributor of agricultural equipment such as tractors and combines.

This seasonally ever - changing menu ensures the highest quality ingredients that honor the rich local agriculture, as well as the freshest, sustainably sourced seafood, to produce an exceptional array of local and global flavors that set La Cosecha apart as a visionary concept in Modern Mexican food.

Under BAU [Business As Usual], agriculture and civilization will collapse some time between 2050 and 2055 due to drought / desertification caused by GW [Global Warming].

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.

Both the World Bank and the International Energy Agency (IEA) have warned that if business - as - usual continues, the world is headed towards a total climate catastrophe, devastating coastal cities, global agriculture, and leading to mass extinction.

The increased recognition of urban agriculture and food policies is not only a matter of governments in the global North, but is as much present in the global South where amongst others cities like Rosario (Argentina), Lima (Peru),

While trying to determine whether a forest was felled above the legal yield can be tricky, conversion of forest to agriculture can be detected fairly easily from satellite imagery, and tools such as Global Forest Watch allow anyone with an internet connection to access remote - sensed images of forest losses and gains.

• Promote reform of industrial agriculture to agro-ecological systems such as permaculture, within the context of protecting and restoring adequate terrestrial systems necessary to maintain biodiversity, ecosystems and achieve global ecological sustainability.

Kudos to Secretary Clinton for acknowledging that this holds as true for energy as it does for autos or agriculture or any other products we trade on a global basis.

The project contributed to improved sustainability and reallocation of agriculture and food delivery in city regions in Europe as well as in the global South by developing, together with SMEs, innovative approaches for:

Conserving the viability of forestry seems to me a third reason to view a program of Albedo Restoration as the necessary and sufficient complement in a Troika mitigation strategy, alongside the objectives of halting the ongoing disruption of global agriculture and decelerating the main interactive feedbacks.

As for beneficial impacts of global warming: the no - frost window for agriculture would be widened in all temperate to cold climates, such as Northern America, Northern Europe, Northern Asia, Southern South America and New ZealanAs for beneficial impacts of global warming: the no - frost window for agriculture would be widened in all temperate to cold climates, such as Northern America, Northern Europe, Northern Asia, Southern South America and New Zealanas Northern America, Northern Europe, Northern Asia, Southern South America and New Zealand.

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So it is a surprise to meet someone who calls himself an environmentalist but who asserts that things are getting better, that the rate of human population growth is past its peak, that agriculture is sustainable and pollution is ebbing, that forests are not disappearing, that there is no wholesale destruction of plant and animal species and that even global warming is not as serious as commonly portrayed.

Isn't the global temperature record extremely noisy due to factors such as changing distribution of thermometers, changes to surrounding land areas due to agriculture and urbanization, as well as changes in the ocean due to flora and fauna due to industrialized fishing?

Indeed, as Dias opened the 12th Conference of the Parties (COP 12) to the CBD here, he reiterated the importance of engaging the private sector in the opening pages of the 4th Global Biodiversity Outlook, where he pointed out that agriculture accounts for 70 % of our habitat destruction.

But this will prove impossible without rapid action and societal change, as the global population continues to grow and more ecosystems are lost every year to agriculture, urbanization, mining, and logging.

22 Agriculture Agriculture would be most severely impacted by global warming if extreme weather events, such as drought, became more frequent.

As such, the GCRA (Section 106) mandated that the CCSP prepare, not less frequently than every four years, a scientific assessment report, or National Assessment, of global climate change research that, among other things, analyzes the effects of global change on eight specific areas, including: «the natural environment, agriculture, energy production and use, land and water resources, transportation, human health and welfare, human social systems, and biological diversity.»

Animal agriculture produces 65 % of the world's nitrous oxide (a gas with the global warming potential 296 x greater than carbon dioxide) and it is estimated that by 2050, this industry will see an 80 % increase, as the demand for meat and dairy continues to rise.