Sentences with phrase «growing population while»

Forty years of research show that organic farming can yield enough food to feed a growing population while protecting the ecosystems we depend on.

GMOs, organic, cage - free: academics and activists alike are looking for the magic recipe to produce enough food for the growing population while safeguarding human health, animal welfare and the environment.

America is a relatively young and expansive country, and a major historical concern involved feeding a growing population while moving food large distances.

So how can agriculture be intensified to feed a growing population while addressing environmental concerns?

As early as 700 B.C., Chinese authorities were encouraging peasant farmers to move into remote regions of the plateau, citing the need to feed a large and growing population while establishing a buffer of human settlement against the threat of nomadic invaders along its northern border.

How can we feed a growing population while at the same time coping with the impacts of climate change on agriculture?

Not exact matches

The population grew by 50 million while NILF expanded by 9 million.

But by the present era, Not in the Labor Force expanded by 37.5 % while population grew by only 14.2 %.

Notice how population growth was 23.6 % 1977 - 1997 while growth of NILF was a mere 10.5 % As the population grew, job growth kept NILF to a low rate of expansion.

Between 2008 and 2010, the number of visitors to Lower Manhattan grew to nine million from seven million, according to the Downtown Alliance, the local business improvement district, while the residential population has more than doubled since 2000, to 56,000 from 22,904.

But while handing out price breaks to a growing elderly population may be smart marketing for business, it no longer makes sense for governments to do the same.

Malthus relied on simple math: agricultural production grows arithmetically, while population explodes at a geometric rate.

Buffett cited current statistics in his analysis: U.S. population grew at 0.8 % in 2015, according to the World Bank, while GDP grew $ 55,863.80 per capita in 2015.

«In the past decade, the Atlanta region's Asian population surged 74 percent, while its Latino population grew by 101 percent,» the article notes.

Having accepted that it can't satisfy its prospering population alone, China must find a way to feel secure while importing growing quantities of food — the second prong of its strategy.

HALIFAX — A new study says while Atlantic Canada's largest city is growing, population rates in Halifax remain marginal because more people are moving elsewhere.

While Staten Island is the city's least populous borough, its population has grown steadily and rapidly, more than doubling in the last half - century to close to one - half million residents.

Of the other MINTs: Indonesia is in a stable recovery, but the importance of commodities like coal and palm oil means it will not return to previous growth levels soon; Nigeria's economy remains overdependent on oil, though Phylaktis sees its «fast - growing population and labor force feeding faster economic growth over the medium term»; and while «Turkey has a lot of potential,» Lau says, «its political and economic management is questionable and casts a shadow over the economy.»

Thomas Malthus was the 18th century demographer and dismal scientist who argued that agricultural output grows only linearly, while population grows geometrically, suggesting widespread famine when the population outstripped the food supply.

Already at the time of the American Revolution, financial economists were popularizing the contrast that Malthus soon would imitate in his population theory: Debts grow at «geometric» rates, while the economy itself grows only «arithmetically,» in a slower and more linear way.

It may take a while, but the Saudi's population will grow from 27M to 37M by 2010.

While Christianity has declined in Europe and has only held its own (at best) in North America, it has been growing at many times the rate of population in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

As the gap between the rich and the rest of the population grows, economic policy increasingly caters to the interests of the elite, while public services for the population at large - above all, public education - are starved of resources.

«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»

Nasser, while criticized for his politics specifically toward a then growing Israeli population, is widely considered the most successful champion of Pan Arabism, the idea of unifying all countries of the Arab world, from Morocco on the Atlantic Ocean to Oman on the Arabian Sea.

She said the decision is best for the child, especially while growing up in a county with a large Christian population.»

He also noted that «while organic agriculture contributes to hunger and poverty reduction and should be promoted, it can not by itself feed the rapidly growing population.»

Ranchers work hard to feed a growing population, while reducing water use, care for the land, and protect the environment.

In a world where food security is one of the most pressing development challenges, finding immediate ways to address the needs of a growing and rapidly urbanising population, while limiting food losses and waste, is becoming a key priority for our sector.

High yields under all of these conditions are necessary, especially because the land available for farming is decreasing while our population is continuously growing.

Numerous reports have emphasized the need for major changes in the global food system: agriculture must meet the twin challenge of feeding a growing population, with rising demand for meat and high - calorie diets, while simultaneously minimizing its global environmental impacts1, 2.

While you talk about us multiplying to 40 million here, why don't you include how White Americans (slave owners) helped grow our population by breeding us like cattle during slavery time?

«New York City's future will depend on leaders who understand how to keep New York City's middle class population growing while developing the economic and social policies that move our low income population into the middle class,» she said.

«Everyone is still getting their feet back under them economically, there's a lot of expansion opportunity while interest rates are still low, so we think in a lot of areas, particularly in New York where we have a big population base, probably we don't know how much more we can grow but there's definitely room for growth,» said Giles.

The governor says the average population of upstate municipalities is on the long term decline, while local budgets are growing.

According to data from our region, only 26 percent of Erie County residents and 27 percent of Niagara County residents consume at least five servings of fruits and vegetables daily while the region grows only 38 percent of the fruits and vegetables our population would need to consume to follow the USDA's healthy - eating guidelines.

«The challenge of feeding growing populations healthily while minimising environmental damage - particularly as food and fuel prices continue to rise - should remind governments that this is not a time to step away from tackling our food system,» he said.

Last time the districts were redrawn, Republicans led the governing body and managed to skew the process in their own favor — leaving most of the underpopulated districts upstate, while the growing populations in the New York City region went unrecognized by a matching increase in proportional representation.

Warren County expenditures grew from $ 72 million in 1998 to $ 145 million in 2012 while our population only grew 4 percent.

In recent years, the district has lost some of its black population while its Latino population has grown to account for more 55 percent of the district's residents, and 45 percent of those who can cast a ballot there.

While the prison population has grown, officer numbers have been cut without any thought for the consequences,» chief executive Frances Crook said.

The Coney Island section of the district primarily consists of blacks and Russian - speaking immigrants, while the Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Bath Beach neighborhoods are traditional ethnic Italian and Irish strongholds with growing Asian and Eastern European populations.

Rockland's median price for a home is $ 387,000; and while the mid-Hudson's population has risen nearly five percent, Rockland is growing faster than the entire region as a whole.»

Rural regions lost large numbers of residents (Allegany County, 2.47 percent; Cattaraugus County, 2.14 percent; and Chautauqua County, 2.11 percent) while suburban towns had mixed results (Amherst's population grew by 2.12 percent, while Cheektowaga's dropped by 0.44 percent and Tonawanda's declined by 0.17 percent).

The team also discovered that while many people believe the region's fast - growing elephant population is a major driver of forest cover loss, there was little evidence for this in their analysis.

Nevertheless, the demand side grows fastly with booming population growth and urbanization, while the supply side is more endangered with increasing water scarcity due to global change, limited phosphorus reserves and vast amounts of energy required for nitrogen production.

While many recent studies have documented that agricultural producers must significantly increase yields in order to meet the food, feed, and fuel demands of a growing population, few have given practical solutions on how to do this.

While the world's human population currently grows at an average rate of 1 percent per year, earlier research has shown that long - term growth of the prehistoric human population beginning at the end of the Ice Age was just 0.04 percent annually.

Much has been written about the Death of the West: how declining birth rates, falling populations, and population aging will reduce Europe and end the supremacy of the US while Asian superpowers, such as China and India, see their economies grow to match their huge populations.

Worldwide, between 1971 and 2010, production of meat tripled to around 600 billion pounds while global population grew by 81 percent, meaning that we are eating a lot more meat than our grandparents.