Sentences with phrase «high food productivity»

Dr. Peter Carter, an expert reviewer of the IPCC 5th assessment, says that «the entire world depends on the high food productivity of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Higher farm productivity also made food cheaper for all consumers, leaving them with more money to spend on other goods and services.

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To remain competitive and also meet consumers» broadening preferences, large and small processors are adopting continuous systems of various capacities that can provide higher productivity and dramatically increased yields as well as improved food safety and quality.

Pay for high - quality food produced by small, local, family farmers and enjoy fewer illnesses, children with happier demeanors, reduced medical bills, no medications and better productivity in yourself and your children.

«High agricultural productivity — necessary for profit for farmers, agri - businesses and food retailers, whilst also keeping prices low for consumers — currently requires high levels of application of relatively cheap fertilisers.&raHigh agricultural productivity — necessary for profit for farmers, agri - businesses and food retailers, whilst also keeping prices low for consumers — currently requires high levels of application of relatively cheap fertilisers.&rahigh levels of application of relatively cheap fertilisers.»

Each one of us can be responsible for our own health by avoiding junk food in all its disguises, maintaining a moderate amount of physical activity and regulating stress, thereby having a higher quality of life with very low medical costs, reduced disease risk and more productivity.

Long - run investments he recommends: Treasury bonds and high quality bonds, income producing securities, food and other consumer staples, small luxuries, USD, rental apartments, health care, productivity enhancers, North American energy

Joseph Bast, who works with the group, highlighted some of the group's conclusions in Forbes: There is little risk of global food insecurity owing to higher levels of CO2, as higher CO2 will greatly aid plant productivity; «No changes in precipitation patterns, snow, monsoons, or river flows that might be considered harmful to human well - being or plants or wildlife have been observed that could be attributed to rising CO2»; and little risk to aquatic or dry - land ecosystems.

This mega-shift in ocean productivity from south to north over the next three to four decades will leave those most reliant on fish for both food and income high and dry.

As I said — intensification relates to higher productivity on the same amount of land — and we will perhaps 70 % more food by 2050.

Perennial grasses, on the other hand, have naturally high productivity, need fewer chemicals and water, and are not food crops; hence, many governments worldwide are choosing them as future energy farming systems (El Bassam, 2010).

Acidity reduces the capacity of key plankton species and shelled animals to form and maintain shells and other hard parts, and therefore alters the food available to important fish species.136, 139,140 The rising acidity will have particularly strong societal effects on the Bering Sea on Alaska's west coast because of its high - productivity commercial and subsistence fisheries.17, 141

Perennial grasses and re-sprouting woody plants have naturally high productivity, need fewer inputs and water, and are not food crops; hence, many governments worldwide are choosing them as future energy farming systems.

Hunter - gatherers are known to set fires intentionally to create and maintain early successional ecosystems, which generally have higher productivity than undisturbed ecosystems, in efforts to boost the local availability of food plants and game animals (47, 48).

«They are hurt by declines in agricultural productivity but the value of their farm output may rise due to higher food prices, increasing their incomes,» explained Ahmed, whose findings are published in Environmental Research Letters.

«They realise that letting staff eat their favourite foods at their desks is a small price to pay for higher productivity.»