Sentences with phrase «impacted by livestock»

Not exact matches

• The State Emergency Operations Center has received reports that several farms were impacted by the flood waters causing a large number of dead livestock and potential hazardous waste material due to those deaths.

Crops and livestock will be affected by flooding, drought and shifts in the timing of rainfall and temperature, but where and how these impacts will be felt is uncertain.

We were convinced by Chelsea Whyte's discussion of going vegan (27 January, p 26) and the huge global warming impact of livestock farming.

Another 600 cards urge Navajo Nation Council Speaker Edward T. Begay and the other 87 Council delegates to «adopt a resolution opposing any form of uranium mining on Navajo lands, supporting cleanup of old uranium sites, and promoting protection of Diné communities by addressing uranium's impacts on our health, water, air, land and livestock.»

According to an assessment by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, «the contribution of the livestock sector to global greenhouse gas emissions exceeds that of transportation,» and a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences estimated the impact of a global move to a plant - based diet could reduce global mortality by 6 to 10 percent and reduce food - related greenhouse gas emissions by 29 to 70 percent.

Espcially with the drought situation in the U.S. which is largely affecting corn which is fed to the livestock, etc... If you eat more foods not linked to corn, yeah, baby, you are not impacted as much financially by the drought, it seems.

The culminating training event used the real life events of last year's devastating Nepal earthquake and injected a veterinarian aspect requiring the veterinarians to assess the economic impact to the rural regions affected by the earthquake and to prepare courses of action for crisis management to include livestock.

Mountain gorilla populations often are negatively impacted by shared diseases with domesticated livestock as well as humans.

By mid-century and beyond, these impacts will be increasingly negative on most crops and livestock.

Demystifying the Environmental Sustainability of Food Production, a paper by Jude Capper, Roger Cady and Dale Bauman, demonstrates either a lamentable misunderstanding of the impacts of livestock production practices, or a willful effort to misrepresent the facts.

The impact of climate change on livestock farming in Africa was examined by Seo and Mendelsohn (2006a, b).

Crop and livestock production is already being disrupted by climate change; by mid-century the impacts on most will be increasingly negative.

We have seen in Kenya how the detrimental impact of climate change is further compounded by local environmental degradation caused by deforestation, illegal encroachments, and livestock grazing.

Food availability could be threatened through direct climate impacts on crops and livestock from increased flooding, drought, shifts in the timing and amount of rainfall, and high temperatures, or indirectly through increased soil erosion from more frequent heavy storms or through increased pest and disease pressure on crops and livestock caused by warmer temperatures and other changes in climatic conditions.

While the crusts are severely damaged by livestock hoof - prints, tire tracks, and other impacts — taking years, even decades to recover — the crusts are not impacted by rising temperatures or drier weather.

They are closer to the people who are severely impacted by climate change and are working with those vulnerable to its effects to create innovative solutions when their crops and livestock fail as a result of drought, hurricanes or sea level rise.