Sentences with phrase «growing food insecurity»

The leaders in this land acquisition movement — Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and China — are all facing growing food insecurity.

In a world that faces growing food insecurity, the best and most efficient response is to worry less about production and more about addressing the gaps in our current distribution system — primarily, why an estimated 40 percent of all calories produced for human consumption fails to reach mouths and bellies.

In a world of rising population, increasing cost of food, concerns about inequality and growing food insecurity, food waste is one of the greatest challenges of our time with 30 percent (1.3 billion tons) of food produced being wasted each year.

At a time of growing food insecurity and climate change, we can't afford to let this continue.

Not exact matches

For more than 30 years, food banks across the country have worked to address food insecurity in Canadian households; however, keeping pace with the growing need for services continues to strain resources.

Christian Labour MP Emma Lewell - Buck, whose bill urging the Government to measure food insecurity will be read in Parliament on Friday, said: «Now is the time for the Government to sit up and tackle the growing issue of hunger in our country.

Some of the world's largest food companies are rolling out a programme called Grow, promising to apply «market - based solutions» to poverty, food insecurity and climate change.

«Food insecurity is a critical and growing issue for many Australians, with too many families living hand - to - mouth or not knowing where their next meal will come from,» Praestiin said.

«As Asia's population continues to grow and to urbanize at unprecedented rates, food insecurity in the region could worsen unless action is taken now.

«As the Council begins our Executive Budget hearings on May 6th, we will continue to strongly push for critical investments that will greatly expand employment opportunities for our young people by increasing the number of year round and summer youth jobs, advocating for vital legal services and workforce development skills to support our growing immigrant population and fighting to combat food insecurity in our City,» they said.

The groundbreaking and far - reaching educational recommendations for climate change and health curricula aim to expand the numbers of health professionals equipped to recognize and respond to the health challenges of a warming climate, including deadly heat waves, flooding, air pollution, and wildfires; greater spread of disease vectors like ticks and mosquitos; and growing food and drinking water insecurity.

The report also reiterates that poverty engenders numerous related disadvantages, including growing up in single - parent homes, being exposed to toxins that lead to health issues, food insecurity, and unstable housing and parental employment, to name a few.

Even in developed nations like the United States, there's a growing phenomenon called «hidden hunger,» random bouts of food insecurity when consumers don't know when or where they'll have their next meal.

growing food and livelihood insecurity, unreliable water supplies, deteriorating human welfare and increasing manifestation of erosive coping measures (e.g. eating less, distress sale of productive assets to buy food, reducing the years of schooling for children, etc.).

The evidence illustrates loss and damage around barriers and limits to adaptation: growing food and livelihood insecurity, unreliable water supplies, deteriorating human welfare and increasing manifestation of erosive coping measures (e.g. eating less, distress sale of productive assets to buy food, reducing the years of schooling for children, etc.).

The RUAF network was initiated in response to the needs identified by a group of representatives from 28 international organisations, including UNDP, FAO, IDRC, GTZ and CIRAD, that met in Ottawa (Canada) in 1994 and recognised the need to address the increasing «urbanisation of poverty» and growing urban food insecurity related to urban - rural migration, lack of formal employment, rising food prices, growing dependence on food imports, increasing dominance of supermarkets and fast food chains, and challenges posed by climate change.

In part as a result of climate change mitigation policies to promote biofuels and growing concern about food insecurity in middle and high income countries, large - scale land acquisition in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America has displaced small landholders and contributed to food price increases.

However, growing urban poverty and food insecurity, high costs of green open space and solid waste management, the need for recreational opportunities in the urban and peri-urban area, tend to modify thinking of planners and authorities and a more «agricultural» approach (farmers as povery reduction strategy; farmers as waste reusers; farmers as landscape managers and providers of recreational services, etcetera).

Food insecurity can grow due to weather events, such as floods and droughts that affect conditions for sustainable food productFood insecurity can grow due to weather events, such as floods and droughts that affect conditions for sustainable food productfood production.

Dyer has Pakistan and India, increasingly under the pressure of food insecurity — due to more frequent failures of the monsoon combined with still - growing populations — confronted in the mid-2030s by drastically reduced summer stream flows in the Indus river system.

Growing world food insecurity is ushering in a new geopolitics of food scarcity, one where competition for land and water is crossing national boundaries.