Sentences with phrase «implications for food security»

10 Aug: ABC Bush Telegraph: Margot Foster: Australian target for 2010 International Year of Biodiversity missed This has important implications for food security as narrowing the genetic pool increases our vulnerability at a time of climate change and forced adaptation.

He said that increased threats ranged from property damage to political risk — such as the implications for food security — and the economic impacts.

According to the report, by the end of the century, temperatures in the deltaic region could increase by four degrees Celsius, affecting weather in the Indus and over the Arabian sea with serious implications for food security.

Redistribution of marine fisheries catch potential towards higher latitudes poses risk of reduced supplies, income, and employment in tropical countries, with potential implications for food security (medium confidence).

However, Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought (DLDD) as well as climate change can negatively affect the provision of these ecosystem services with potentially severe implications for food security, livelihoods, and human well - being.

The Council will also take interest in regional and global policies and trends that bear implications for food security in Nigeria.

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This growth holds serious implications for global food security.

Meanwhile, environmental and population changes have major implications for issues including food and nutrition security, access to clean water and sanitation, and natural disasters.

But as anxiety mounts - even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow and extremist groups worldwide exploit the desperation of people losing livelihoods to desertification - many are finding new routes to water security with key implications for food access, economic resilience, and climate change.

The authors do however urge caution due to the potential impact on yield production which could have implications for regional and global food security.

The scope of this chapter, with a focus on food crops, pastures and livestock, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry (commercial forests), aquaculture and fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculturalists and artisanal fishers, is to: examine current climate sensitivities / vulnerabilities; consider future trends in climate, global and regional food security, forestry and fisheries production; review key future impacts of climate change in food crops pasture and livestock production, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry, fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculture; assess the effectiveness of adaptation in offsetting damages and identify adaptation options, including planned adaptation to climate change; examine the social and economic costs of climate change in those sectors; and, explore the implications of responding to climate change for sustainable development.

We are examining land and coastal impacts and their implications for food, water security, energy security, flooding, infrastructure, ecosystems, health, and human migration.

Another area of focus will be the food supply crunch and its implications for conflict and national security but also the economic opportunity for sustainable food production.

And they have considered climate change as a problem of food security, with implications for human health, and as threat to vital sources of protein.

The gradual warming of the tropics may not seem as weird as March Madness, but it has much more important implications for biodiversity, food security and the stability of world financial markets.

This is especially the case in attempts to understand the food, water and energy security implications for the people living in the basins who depend directly on meltwater, either seasonally or as an overall component of their water budget, and how they are affected by climate change in their mountainous environment (13).

«Climate change has big implications for Chinese food security from a seafood perspective,» explained Prof Cheung during his presentation on assessing the impacts of fishing and climate change on marine ecosystems.

More irrigation water in the future may require agricultural expansion to help with food security whereas less water might mean the region moving out of agricultural altogether, decisions with major implications for investment in regional infrastructure.