Sentences with phrase «global average food»

They found that while global average food demand per person remains almost constant, in the last five decades food availability has rapidly increased - hiking the emissions related to growing surplus food by more than 300 percent.

Not exact matches

The African nation of Zambia, for instance, has only enough food available to provide its population with 1,870 calories on average, per day, according to a striking global map in the October issue of National Geographic — and in truth, in much of the world, such calorie counts offer an inflated view of what's actually accessible to most citizens, due to widespread poverty, civil unrest, natural disasters, corruption, government mismanagement, food - distribution failures, and other issues.

Australian Food & Grocery Council chief executive Gary Dawson said that while retailer profit margins would fall to an average of about 5.3 per cent this year they remained well above those of food retailers in the US (3.8 per cent) and Britain (2.0 per cent) and the global average (3.2 per ceFood & Grocery Council chief executive Gary Dawson said that while retailer profit margins would fall to an average of about 5.3 per cent this year they remained well above those of food retailers in the US (3.8 per cent) and Britain (2.0 per cent) and the global average (3.2 per cefood retailers in the US (3.8 per cent) and Britain (2.0 per cent) and the global average (3.2 per cent).

Global Food Security estimates that households throw away # 500 - worth of food on average each year, or 5 kg a wFood Security estimates that households throw away # 500 - worth of food on average each year, or 5 kg a wfood on average each year, or 5 kg a week.

According to a report by Zenith Global, 2017 was another record year for food and drink industry transactions, with 727 registered in the bevblog.net mergers and acquisitions database, an average of almost 14 each week.

«This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the [2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient development.

The researchers looked specifically at the average fishing revenue in 106 Alaskan communities for 10 years before and after 1989, a year when the North Pacific Ocean experienced a significant shift in productivity and abrupt changes in the composition of marine food webs, while at the same time the global price for salmon dropped because of competition from farm - raised fish.

«Global fisheries to be, on average, 20 percent less productive in 2300, UCI study finds: Warming - induced plankton growth near Antarctica will impair marine food chain.»

We used a 5 - d average for food intake for each condition to most accurately represent global changes in food intake that occurred during each condition.

Also steadily increasing is the average dietary glycemic index (GI) 9 in the United States (5), with the global consumption of refined foods also increasing as more regions of the world adopt westernized dietary patterns.

Noting the average Western farmer's now close to retirement age, plus the insatiable global demand for food, we're on the cusp of a new wave of farmers & intensive farming techniques.

The most recent report concluded both, that global temperatures are rising, that this is caused largely by human activities and, in addition, that for increases in global average temperature, there are projected to be major changes in ecosystem structure and function with predominantly negative consequences for biodiversity and ecosystems, e.g. water and food supply.

Mr. Chamie notes that the relatively enormous thirst for energy, food and other resources from Americans, when compared with that of the average world citizen, gives outsize importance to issues like global warming and to American trends.

Factoring in the effects of global warming on weather, food production and pollution, the index's average score drops 8 percent worldwide from what would otherwise be predicted (and it drops by 12 percent in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia).

Accordingly, unless action is taken to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, climate change could cut the projected improvement in food availability by approximately a third by 2050, which in turn would lead to average per - person reductions in food availability of 3.2 %, or 99 kcal, fruit and vegetable intake by 4.0 %, or 14.9 grams per day, and red meat consumption by 0.7 %, or 0.5 grams per day.

The rising food demand is not just a result of the global population growth [although the planet can expect (UN medium variant) an estimated 2.3 billion extra people in 2050 — as no one even mentions the possibility of policy on that front]-- but also of an increasingly decadent average food consumption pattern, in which (next to globalisation of food production) the rising consumption of animal protein plays a key role.

Despite the complexity of global food supply, here we show that simple measures of growing season temperatures and precipitation — spatial averages based on the locations of each crop — explain ~ 30 % or more of year - to - year variations in global average yields for the world's six most widely grown crops.

After extensive study he has concluded that the activities of mankind are not creating a climate crisis and the active global warming / climate change campaign underway today is costing the average American family thousands of dollars a year and creating food shortages and starvation in the third world.

For example, as long as the rise in global average temperature stays below 3 degrees Celsius, some models predict that global food production could increase because of the longer growing season at mid - to high - latitudes, provided adequate water resources are available.

What is the global optimum average temperature for maximum productivity of the primary producers (green plants) in the food chain?

At the high - end scenario of global warming, in which global average temperatures increase to 8.46 degrees Fahrenheit above 1986 - 2005 average levels by 2100, the report found that «the combination of high temperature and humidity in some areas for parts of the year is projected to compromise normal human activities, including growing food or working outdoors.»

The IPCC has already concluded that it is «virtually certain that human influence has warmed the global climate system» and that it is «extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010» is anthropogenic.1 Its new report outlines the future threats of further global warming: increased scarcity of food and fresh water; extreme weather events; rise in sea level; loss of biodiversity; areas becoming uninhabitable; and mass human migration, conflict and violence.

Given that both CO2 and global average temperature are far below the norm for the past 500 million years and primary production in the food chain is also far below the norm then I'd say we probably shouldn't worry about it until we at least have temperate forests covering Antarctica again and the threat of a cold ending to the Holocene Interglacial is not a concern.