Sentences with phrase «impacts on agriculture faces»

However, any effort at assessing climate impacts on agriculture faces multiple levels of uncertainty, including uncertainty that a) accompanies all climate projections, b) is specific to agricultural projections, and c) is created by adaptive actions (human interventions) that can mask a direct climate signal.

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Whereas, if left unaddressed, the consequences of a changing climate have the potential to adversely impact all Americans, hitting vulnerable populations hardest, harming productivity in key economic sectors such as construction, agriculture, and tourism, saddling future generations with costly economic and environmental burdens, and imposing additional costs on State and Federal budgets that will further add to the long - term fiscal challenges that we face as a Nation;

Examples include the Study on the impacts of rising food prices on the food security of the urban poor (in 5 cities / regions for IDRC and UN Habitat), Assistance to FAO for the Technical Consultation on Food, Agriculture and Cities and the Scoping paper on urban agriculture for UNEP and the Assistance to China - Europe on urban agriculture in face of the fAgriculture and Cities and the Scoping paper on urban agriculture for UNEP and the Assistance to China - Europe on urban agriculture in face of the fagriculture for UNEP and the Assistance to China - Europe on urban agriculture in face of the fagriculture in face of the food crisis.

The uncertainty has already had an adverse impact on some sectors within the UK economy, such as healthcare, construction, hospitality, agriculture, retail and manufacturing, which are currently facing critical labour shortages.