Sentences with phrase «greater food security»

The fruit tree drive was chosen to advance a three-fold mission of strengthening community, raising awareness about the need for greater food security, and laying the ground for broader organizational collaboration.

Pehin Dato Yahya Bakar, Minister of Industry and Primary Resources of Brunei, committed to limit his country's agricultural footprint to 1 percent of land area while working to improve yields to achieve greater food security — for the purposes of protecting Brunei's tropical forests.

The project aimed to improve the quality of life for the population by creating more stable local economies, greater food security, improved gender relations and increased social capital.

New analysis shows Afghanistan as well as several sub-Saharan African nations as having the greatest food security risk in the world, classified as «extreme risk» (red in the image above).

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The well - funded dairy lobby spends a great deal of money (an estimated $ 80 to $ 100 million each year — ironically paid for by the higher prices consumers pay), persuading federal and provincial politicians that supply management «protects the family farm,» «ensures food security» and that, because these farmers are so numerous, doing anything to upset them would be political suicide.

Improved access to knowledge and innovations in organic agriculture holds great potential for improving food security and raising the productivity of smallholders» farms in Africa and India economically, ecologically and socially...

Since its initial report in 2011, the committee has monitored global progress on food and nutrition security issues and explored three aspects in greater depth — the role of technology and innovation in agriculture, opportunities for advancing nutrition security, and the need for environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable agricultural systems.

As issues around food security and sustainability grow, customers will demand products with greater provenance information and accurate vendor claims.

It was great to have the opportunity to attend the 2016 Crawford Fund annual conference «Waste not, want not: the circular economy to food security» as well as the Scholar events.

Talks from Louise Fresco and Andrew Campbell describing their journey in science, food security, and R4D reassured me that the current uncertainty I am feeling is perfect normal and that I should strive to become the master of an area I have a great passion for.

The third EAT Stockholm Food brings together some of the world's brightest people in the fields of science, politics, business and civil society to shift food systems toward greater sustainability, health, security, and equity within the boundaries of our plaFood brings together some of the world's brightest people in the fields of science, politics, business and civil society to shift food systems toward greater sustainability, health, security, and equity within the boundaries of our plafood systems toward greater sustainability, health, security, and equity within the boundaries of our planet.

In addition to the Great Future Kitchen, The Kraft Heinz Company Foundation is a key supporter of BGCA's national Food Security Initiative to strengthen and expand the impact of food service programming at thousands of Club locations in the Food Security Initiative to strengthen and expand the impact of food service programming at thousands of Club locations in the food service programming at thousands of Club locations in the U.S.

«In terms of the food security of the first food, the global breastfeeding movement continues to call for greater vigilance around the more aggressive marketing of baby and toddler foods, using new promotional avenues on the internet, especially social networking, via mothers» clubs, educational foundations targeting students, and as business interest NGOs etc..

Researchers have identified five enzymes that are essential to the survival of a parasitic worm that infects livestock worldwide and is a great threat to global food security.

«Lots of the pure discoveries we make have great import for food security and the challenges farmers in tropical countries face from insects and fungi that infect their crops,» he notes.

The greatest challenges the world faces: food security, climate change, loss of biodiversity, the aging population and disease can all ultimately be addressed through biology based research,» Mark Downs, head of the Society of Biology said in a statement.

To maintain food security, wheat breeders are working to develop plants that offer more nutritional value, have greater yields, and can thrive in a changing climate.

The study assesses the food supply available to more than 140 nations (with populations greater than 1 million) and demonstrates that food security is becoming increasingly susceptible to perturbations in demographic growth, as humanity places increasing pressure on use of limited land and water resources.

First, the researchers show how growing native perennial species on marginal lands - land not used for food production because of low fertility or other reasons — avoids competition with food security, and provides the greatest potential for climate mitigation and biodiversity benefits.

This leads to greater chances of food crises, particularly in nations where land and water resources are scarce and therefore food security strongly relies on imports.

Food security indicators, a combination of economic, health, logistic and population statistics, assessed which areas are currently at greatest risk for hunger and malnutrition.

During the evening, the team highlighted the GM's work to support communities across the Sahel in climate resilient development, as part of the Great Green Wall initiative and its efforts to scale up the Great Green Wall Initiative, to jointly «Grow a World Wonder», since the Great Green Wall is part of the solution to many global challenges, including food security, conflict prevention and environmental migration.

Although African maize is infected by several virus species from at least six different families, there are two that stand out as the greatest threat to African food security: these are Maize streak virus [MSV]; family Geminiviridae, a virus species with an extremely small single - stranded DNA genome that was first discovered infecting African maize over a century ago; and Maize rough dwarf virus [MRDV], family Reoviridae, a virus species with a complex double - stranded RNA genome that until recently was thought to occur only in Europe and Asia.

A University of Queensland team has made a discovery that could help conquer the greatest threat to global food security — pests and diseases in plants.

Food security and soil fertility could be significantly improved by greater grain legume usage and increased improvement of a range of grain legumes.

With 1 out of 4 living in poverty — far more than any other industrialized country (nearly double what it was 30 years ago); a more tattered safety net — more who are homeless, without health care, and without food security; a more segregated and inequitable system of public education, in which the top schools spend 10 times more than the lowest spending; we nonetheless have a defense budget larger than that of the next 20 countries combined and greater disparities in wealth than any other leading country.

«It is a great and important task to safeguard all the genetic material that is crucial to global food security,» said Jon Georg Dale, Norway's Minister of Agriculture and Food, in a statemfood security,» said Jon Georg Dale, Norway's Minister of Agriculture and Food, in a statemFood, in a statement.

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If its goal of providing family planning services to 120 million more women in the developing world is met, the payoff would be enormous at multiple levels: lower maternal and child mortality, better health, higher educational attainment, poverty reduction, greater food and water security.

Risks to food security are generally greater in low - latitude areas.

The single greatest threat to the planet's food, water and energy security and the stability of the nexus is arguably climate change.

Regardless of how you measure the impacts of climate change — whether it be food, water, health, national security, our economy — climate change is already taking a great toll.

«Reconciling agriculture and conservation is one of the century's greatest challenges,» says the study's lead author, Ben Phalan, a zoologist with the Cambridge University Strategic Initiative in Global Food Security.

Because of the looming specter of climate change that is threatening to disrupt agriculture, we may find that energy policies will have an even greater effect on future food security than agricultural policies do.

This, of course, is a matter of great concern for food security... NOW in many places.

The great promise of this is the multiple wins for global food security, economic growth and environmental conservation.

Participants agreed to text stating: «Risks to food security generally are greater in low - latitude areas.»

Global food production and food security are threatened by the greater variability of the climate and increasing occurrence of extreme weather events.

Thus, to the greatest extent possible, policies at all levels should be designed and implemented to meet four goals: (i) In sustainable ways, maintain and increase the security of food supplies for food insecure people, particularly in developing countries; (ii) Enable small - scale food producers and other vulnerable populations to become more resilient to climate change; (iii) Sustainably reduce emissions from the agricultural sector; and (iv) Reduce emissions from the conversion of other land to agriculture.

The impacts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on human health include the effects of air pollution on increased respiratory disease, the spread of vector - borne illnesses like cholera, malaria, and dengue fever due to changing weather patterns, and compromised agricultural production and food security leading to greater malnutrition.

And again, the higher the thermometer climbs, the greater the possible disparities in the adaptive capacity of regions: ``... local warming of about 4 [degrees Celsius] and higher above pre-industrial levels is projected to result in differences between crop production and its population - driven demand becoming increasingly large in many regions (high confidence), thus posing very significant risks and challenges to food security.

The new reality is that the Ministry of Energy may have a greater influence on future food security than the Ministry of Agriculture.

Even more thrilling is that in accepting this navigation tool Parties didn't forget about «the Great Eight» — the eight rights - related dimensions in the Paris Agreement preamble: human rights, indigenous peoples» rights, public participation, gender, just transition, ecosystem integrity and protection of biodiversity, food security, and intergenerational equity.

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