Sentences with phrase «growing populations in developing countries»

While raising the living standards of the growing populations in developing countries is a certainly a desirable goal, it will likely worsen the planet's ecosystems.

Now, more than ever before, our oceans are under pressure to meet the needs of growing populations in developing countries and a growing appetite for fish and seafood in developed nations.

Not exact matches

The world's population, mainly in the developing countries, is growing at a rapid pace, with over nine billion people projected by 2025 - many more mouths to feed.

This seems surprising when one looks at the statistics — after all, the developing middle class, an indicator of a more urban and modernizing society, is still a minority (perhaps 300 million of China's 1.3 billion population), albeit a fast - growing one, and China remains a very poor country in terms of per capita GDP, as well as substantially rural.

Moyo was thus uncriticically regurgitating the old Malthusian argument about «tragedies of the commons» occurring, mostly in developing countries, with population growth and environmental factors as the cause of growing poverty and civil strife.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

It is driven not only by a growing population, but also by rising meat consumption among increasingly prosperous people in developing countries.

Those 65 and older will account for 17 percent of the U.S. population by 2030, and those age 85 and older represent the fastest growing group in developed countries.1, 2

The unexpected speed of the demographic transition is one of the reasons for the downward shift in population projections — though against that one must also keep in mind that the US population is growing unusually rapidly for a developed country.

Crop breeders in developing countries are facing challenges in their efforts to improve yields to feed growing populations, battle crop diseases, and counter the effects of drought, salinity and poor soils.

By providing flexible funding for a broad range of field - driven projects and allowing states, school districts, non-profits, and businesses to partner together to develop and grow innovative programs, projects funded by EIR will not only contribute to the production of actionable, proven interventions in a given community or population, but will generate an evidence base that can be adapted to inform practices and funding decisions for states and school districts across the country.

Of course, even a modest increase in fertility rates among the most developed countries will imply that the population size in these countries declines less rapidly, or grows somewhat more rapidly than would otherwise have been the case.

And nearly all of the projected growth rates in emissions of carbon dioxide (and five other kinds of heat - trapping gases included in the determination) in the next few decades are expected to occur in fast - growing developing countries, led by China and India (which by midcentury is expected to be have more people than China and even today has the population density of Japan).

The reversal of the fertility rates with development, which we document in our Nature paper, occurs among the most - developed countries that were — with the exception of the United States — projected to shrink, stabilize or grow only very moderately in terms of their population size in the next decades.

The unexpected speed of the demographic transition is one of the reasons for the downward shift in population projections — though against that one must also keep in mind that the US population is growing unusually rapidly for a developed country.

World marketed energy consumption is projected to grow by 50 percent between 2005 and 2030, driven by robust economic growth and expanding populations in the world's developing countries...

However, strong population growth in developing countries, especially sub-Saharan Africa, has meant that the number of people relying on biomass for cooking has grown by 400 million people, despite growing awareness of the associated health risks and decades of programmes targeting access to modern cooking.

Of course, growing populations and strengthening economies will also lead to an increase in consumption rates, which means that a family's carbon legacy in these developing countries will grow toward the levels of Western countries.

As poorer countries develop and the world's population grows, emissions associated with food waste could soar from 0.5 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year to between 1.9 and 2.5 gigatonnes annually by mid-century, showed the study published in the Environmental Science & Technology journal.

Most cities in developing countries are not able to generate sufficient (formal or informal) income opportunities for the rapidly growing population.

In his interim report Ross Garnaut acknowledges the fact that population growth, in both fast - growing developing countries like China and mature economies like Australia, will mean higher rates of growth of greenhouse gas emissionIn his interim report Ross Garnaut acknowledges the fact that population growth, in both fast - growing developing countries like China and mature economies like Australia, will mean higher rates of growth of greenhouse gas emissionin both fast - growing developing countries like China and mature economies like Australia, will mean higher rates of growth of greenhouse gas emissions.

Growing population and wealth in exposed coastal locations could result in increased economic and social damage, both in developing and developed countries (Pielke et al., 2005; Box 7.4).