Sentences with phrase «global food crisis»

She said the findings highlight the need for stronger air - quality regulations, especially given the looming global food crisis.

The starting point for the discussion was five specific global risks: Resistance to life saving medicine Accelerating transport emissions Loss of ocean biodiversity Global food crisis A Generation Wasted These risk represent a pressure -LSB-...]

Insects could be the solution to an impending global food crisis, but not in the way you might think, says Sandrine Ceurstemont

Experts at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) based in the Philippines say that durable regional agreements on rice production and supply will shield the region from global food crises that may emerge from upheavals in market conditions.

I guess that in a world where 39,000 children die each day from preventable disease, where around 90,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq, where the current global food crisis causes a child to die every seven seconds, where 47 million Americans can not afford basic healthcare, and where women and children continue to be murdered in Darfur — nothing says «God is pro-life» better than a bunch of wet democrats.

The region was already dealing with internal sociopolitical, economic and climatic tensions, and the 2010 global food crisis helped drive it over the edge.

In this era of increasing global food crisis and changing climatic regimes, such ability is highly desirable.»

Campaigners say plants being grown in US may worsen global food crisis, while farmers express cross-contamination fears

The recent drought - induced spike in U.S. corn prices is «just the latest episode in a devastating, protracted global food crisis that has pushed millions into poverty and hunger around the globe over the past 6 years,» argues the ActionAid report.

The starting point for the discussion was five specific global risks: Resistance to life saving medicine Accelerating transport emissions Loss of ocean biodiversity Global food crisis A Generation Wasted These risk represent a -LSB-...]

Such indoor farming — ranging from skyscraper greenhouses to in vitro meat — is altering our definition of agriculture and creating technologies that could stave off a global food crisis.

In a world with increasing urbanisation and a population that is expected to increase to 8.4 billion by mid-2030, a global food crisis is a very real risk.

With risks ranging from extreme weather, water shortage, and unsustainable urbanisation to non-communicable disease, youth unemployment, and the global food crisis, we recommend you consult all three Global Opportunity Reports and seek out the risk areas most relevant for you.

This is particular evident in relation to the global food crisis where everyday millions of tons of food on the global scale goes to waste due to inefficiency.

The good news is that the more than 5,500 leaders surveyed worldwide for this year's Global Opportunity Report sees great new market potential in addressing the risk of the global food crisis.

The article, titled «Who is responsible for the global food crisis?»

In an era of daily reports about a global food crisis, perhaps it is kairos time for the church to extend the table, to view the Lord's Supper not only as commemorating that Upper Room meal, but also as remembering Jesus» feeding of the multitude.

Is there really a global food crisis?

It was just a couple of weeks ago that I wrote about the global food crisis where the poorest of the poor are being hit the hardest and people in Haiti are resorting to eating dirt «cookies» made from shortening, salt and dirt.

Aside from making donations to charitable donations, there are other things we can do in our own part of the world that can have an impact on the global food crisis.

He is amazing and has dedicated a substantial chunk of his investigative journalism life to the global food crisis.

«Current policies on biofuels and trade lie behind the global food crisis.

The G8 must quadruple investment in farm aid to developing nations to fix the global food crisis, according to Oxfam.

«With the growing human population and concerns for meeting the global food crisis in the coming decades, invasive plants and their microbiomes might turn out to be useful for enhancing crop yields.»

It was literally cooked up back in the 1980s by some British industrialists who were worried about a global food crisis — specifically, they were worried that we would be unable to produce enough protein to sustain a growing population.

Food and economic analysts are warning that these governments could be the first victims of the global food crisis, and others are similarly vulnerable.

Just seven months ago, the global food crisis had reached a flash point.

Drawing on his extensive knowledge of international development and aid, he provides readers with a realistic assessment of our ability to solve the global food crisis and questions if any one effort can do it alone.

Opening Friday nationwide, Interstellar stars McConaughey as single father Cooper, an engineer and pilot who becomes a farmer in the wake of a global food crisis.

He has profited hugely from solving the global food crisis by pioneering genetically modified crops and revolutionising animal feed.

After a global food crisis ravages the Midwest, Cooper (McConaughey), an engineer / pilot / father of two, turns his focus on farming until an old mentor (Michael Caine) recruits him to join a hush - hush space mission.

«But we should have no illusions: a global food crisis is still a distinct possibility if governments and international institutions fail to support this rescue mission.»

If so, how large of an amplification will this provide to the global food crisis?

2010 global food crisis was fuelled by crop failures in Russia, caused by climate change.

But the G8 statements on carbon emissions have been eclipsed by discussions of the global food crisis and biofuels, and the supposed causal connection between the two.

(07/17/2008) Government support of biofuel production in rich countries is squandering vast amounts of amounts of money while exacerbating the global food crisis and failing to meaningfully curb greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy security, alleges a new report from the OECD, the club of industrialized nations.

Beyond high food prices, little to show for $ 11B / yr in biofuel support, says OECD report (7/17/2008) Government support of biofuel production in rich countries is squandering vast amounts of amounts of money while exacerbating the global food crisis and failing to meaningfully curb greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy security, alleges a new report from the OECD, the club of industrialized nations.

The NRC and ISU studies argue that U.S. biofuel policies have only modest impacts on grain prices whereas the CSI and CWFS studies indicate that biofuel policies contributed significantly to the 2008 global food crisis and / or pose significant risks to global food security today.

According to Roberts and his London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine colleague Phil Edwards, the fatties have to take the blame for not only climate change but also for panic - du jour, the global food crisis.

«Journalist» Julie Kelly of The Federalist must have been trained at Al Gore's alarmist knee by predicting that a ban of Monsato's Roundup ® «could lead to a global food crisis.»

Now, a US government official is visiting Tokyo to seek Japan's «help to promote the safety of genetically modified crops among Japanese consumers,» as a way to «ease the global food crisis,» notes NHK World.

During this global food crisis, Monsanto just raised the price of its corn seed $ 100 a bag.