Sentences with phrase «implications of food production»

Her work explores the environmental implications of food production and efforts to move it to greater sustainability.

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She encouraged participants to look at the process of starting up such a process — including the practical production challenges and pitfalls, brand owners» buying behaviour, and the implications of food safety regulations.

We examine the implications of doubling aquaculture production between now and 2050, and offer recommendations to ensure that aquaculture growth contributes to a sustainable food future.

Dr. Huybers» research involves the causes of glacial cycles, evaluation of modern climate extremes, and the implications of climate change for food production.

Central Intelligence Agency, «Potential implications of trends in world population, food production, and climate,» OPR - 401, Aug. 1974, published as Appendix II to Impact Team (1977), quote p. 200.

With the Indian Met department having recently warned of weak monsoons this year due to the El Nino effect, there will be serious implications on agricultural production and food prices.

The different chapters capitalize on assessments and experiences such as: lessons learned from Asia's Green Revolution on agricultural communities; trends in African agricultural knowledge, science and technology; trade policy impacts on food production; conditions for success of water interventions for the African rural poor; and climate change implications for agriculture and food systems.

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.

The Parry et al. (2005) study reports the results of a series of research projects that aimed to evaluate the implications of climate change for food production and risk of hunger.

With less sea ice many marine ecosystems will experience more light, which can accelerate the growth of phytoplankton, and shift the balance between the primary production by ice algae and water - borne phytoplankton, with implications for Arctic food webs.

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 that, they say, has profound implications for — most of them bad — for world food production, economic stability and social order.

Even small diversions of corn supplies to ethanol could have dramatic implications for the world's poor, especially considering that researchers believe that food production will need to triple by the year 2050 to accommodate expected demand.

Oil is so important that the peak will have vast implications across the realms of war and geopolitics, medicine, culture, transport and trade, economic stability and food production.

«Potential Implications of Trends in World Population, Food Production, and Climate, OPR - 401, Aug. 1974.

Insurability, property damage, food production and even riparian rights are part of the conversation about the implications of climate change on real estate.