Sentences with phrase «global food demand»

What does this mean for the food chain as global food demand increases?

From an efficiency perspective, global agricultural productivity is currently on track to meet the greater global food demand.

Rates of gains have been impressive in both favourable and dry years but they are below the rate that is required to meet future global food demand.

A new projection by the University of Minnesota and the University of California Santa Barbara shows global food demand could rise by 100 - 110 percent between 2005 and 2050, which would pose a grave threat to remaining tropical rainforests and would lead to again further increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

But with global food demand expected to grow another 50 % by 2050, the expanding footprint of agriculture threatens to decimate much of what remains of the earth's forests and grasslands, even if output is able to keep up with demand.

Researchers with the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences are closer to helping producers better meet global food demand, now that they've combined simulation and statistical methods to help them predict how temperature affects wheat crops worldwide.

«We focused on agriculture because global food demand is expected to double by mid-century, and new or improved roads are vital for farmers,» said Dr Gopalasamy Reuben Clements from James Cook.

It was through this firsthand experience that Neal was persuaded that biotechnology can help agriculture meet ever - expanding global food demand.

It is unlikely therefore that organic agriculture would be capable of producing enough food to meet the expected increases in global food demand (Tilman et al. 2002).

Growing global food demand, climate change, and climate policies favoring bioenergy production are expected to increase pressures on water resources around the world.

A new projection by the University of Minnesota and the University of California Santa Barbara shows global food demand could rise by 100 - 110 percent between 2005 and 2050, which would pose a grave threat to remaining tropical rainforests and would... Continue reading →

The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization projects that global food demand will rise by 70 per cent between 2011 and 2050.

But the reserves that once existed are gone and global food demand has caught up with global food production.

The Great Food Apocalypse Climate change and nuclear weaponry are common threats to the destiny of humanity, but our ultimate undoing may be our inability to meet the global food demand.

Global Food Demand and Carbon - Preserving Cropland Expansion under Varying Levels of Intensification

Recently David Tilman and Jason Hill of the University of Minnesota released a study anticipating that global food demand could double by 2050.

Global food demand is expected to increase 60 percent - with 9 billion people by the middle of the 21st century, according to a 2012 study by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

With the global population increasing and rapid economic growth occurring in some large nations (notably, China, India, and Brazil), global food demand is increasing at the same time that global food supply is taking a number of big hits.

And global food demand is growing.