Sentences with phrase «global food supply»

Climate change is already taking a sizeable chunk out of global food supply and it is going to get worse.

We work to ensure a safe, sustainable global food supply from healthy beef and dairy cattle, pigs, poultry and fish while helping dogs, cats and horses live healthier longer lives.

And yes, nearly 25 years since the world agreed to prevent serious impacts on global food supply, the natural environment and the economy.

Understanding this novel communication could help growers boost crop yields and increase global food supplies.

Heat waves could significantly reduce crop yields and threaten global food supply if climate change is not tackled and reversed.

But just as important, researchers are seeking ways to produce these fuels without compromising global food supply and land.

His team is not the first to try to calculate the potential impact of catastrophic global warming on global food supply.

Apeel Sciences is a company on a mission to fight food waste and build a sustainable global food supply chain.

We work to assure a safe sustainable global food supply from healthy beef and dairy cattle, pigs, poultry, and fish while helping dogs, cats, and horses live healthier longer lives.

Given that the country is the world's top exporter of maize and one of the largest growers of soya beans, Nature explains how the drought could have ramifications for global food supplies, and what science is doing to help.

He said cereal stocks had been declining for more than a decade but now stood at around 57 days, which made global food supplies vulnerable to an international crisis or big natural disaster such as a drought or flood.

Aim of the study The objective of this study was to estimate how global food supply might be affected by greenhouse gas induced climate change up to the year 2060.

That's why the Rockefeller Foundation has launched YieldWise, a $ 130 million initiative that will work with private, public and non-profit participants across the entire global food supply chain to prove that we can slash global food loss and waste by half.

For instance, IBM's recent blockchain collaboration is poised to improve global food supply chain safety, and some realtors are experimenting with payment options by accepting Bitcoin for real estate transactions (CNBC).

As all of these trends and developments illustrate, safety in the cross-border global food supply chain is receiving ever - increasing attention by U.S. and Brazilian officials.

«An increasingly global food supply chain means accomplishing extended shelf life is paramount to food manufacturers and retailers.

Over the past century, chemical fertilisers have been used to boost nitrogen levels and crop yields, helping global food supply keep pace with population growth.

The crop damage across large swathes of China's farmland is adding to concerns over global food supplies after unfavorable weather in top wheat exporters the United States and the Black Sea region resulted in quality downgrades.

It may be possible we'll experience a major die - off, especially due to our overpopulated dependence on fragile global food supplies.

«Arctic sea ice destruction; blue ocean event and global food supply threat.»

Neeson and director Jaume Collet - Serra have teamed up once before, on 2011's identity - theft political thriller Unknown, which unsuccessfully pulled focus on global food supply corruption.

«Other oil producing feedstock such as corn and sugarcane often destroy vital farmlands and rainforests, disrupt global food supplies and create new environmental problems.

The new course will also be six sessions, with sessions exploring food systems — from how agriculture contributes to climate change and how climate change affects global food supply, to food justice and food politics issues, to the health of our bodies and the health of ecosystems.

9) Unfortunately, if people were to adopt carbon sequestration through tree cultivation on a major scale, it would have exactly the same effect as the US ethanol subsidies, in that it would drive up food prices, reduce global food supply, and lead to people in Africa starving.

Professor Elliott will be speaking about the controversial issue of sustaining global food supply to the rapidly growing world population and challenge the audience with ideas about the future of global food security and the role we have to play in it.

Food threat Climate change is already taking a sizeable chunk out of global food supply...

The study, by an NGO based in Argentina, claimed the planet would warm by 2.4 C by 2020 and projected dire consequences for global food supply.

Both a comprehensive assessment of the future of food and a call to action, Bourne inspires his audience to join the next generation of farmers and scientists as they work creatively, quickly, and sustainably in the midst of erratic weather patterns to increase global food supplies.

This year's key topics included implementing the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), global food supply chain risks and the implementation of security best practices.

PAH provides a comprehensive range of medicines, vaccines and animal health services and works to assure that companion animals live longer, healthier lives and to assure a quality, sustainable global food supply from healthy livestock.

CEO and cofounder Angel Versetti says in a press release: «With a dynamic ecosystem of complementing technologies developed within and around the Ethereum ecosystem, we have devised a bold rethinking of how the global food supply chains and markets could operate.

A series of proposed megamergers in the global agrochemicals and seed industries — capped by Bayer's record $ 66 billion cash bid for Monsanto — raise fears of a pricing monopoly in the farm - supply industry and threat to the global food supply.

Indian physicist and ecologist Vandana Shiva, author of Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply, broadened the conversation to include concerns in the Third World, where peasants may lose an essential food source when global corporations «improve» food production by raising one crop and eliminating others.

Recognizing Brazil's role in the global food supply chain, discussions at FDLI's conference focused in part on the U.S. and Brazilian food regulatory systems, challenges regarding food imports and risk management in the global supply chain.

In addition, climate change continues to wreak havoc on small - scale farmers and increase pressures on the global food supply.

This year's key topics included implement the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), global food supply chain risks and the implementation of security best practices.

The award was conceived as a way to recognize influential individuals in the food / beverage industry whose achievements, hard work, and vision have shaped and continue to attain milestones in safety, efficiency, productivity, and innovation throughout the global food supply chain.

DuPont science is making the global food supply safer by helping to meet the challenge of food - borne disease.

Oil palm trees are the world's largest source of vegetable oil and have become indispensable to economic development and the global food supply.

Insecticides are constantly in development and have vast potential to secure the global food supply.

At the same time, 1.4 billion people are overweight, and nearly half of our global food supply is wasted.

Chicago, IL - June 17, 2013 — ArrowStream, Inc. («ArrowStream») a leading provider of Software - as - a-Service (SaaS) supply chain management technology, has been named to Food Logistics 2013 Top Green Providers, a list of companies whose products and services are exceeding industry standards and driving sustainability in the global food supply chain.

«The impact of software and technology on the global food supply chain is truly profound,» emphasizes Lara L. Sowinski, Editor - in - Chief at Food Logistics.