Sentences with phrase «importing food commodities»

The researchers report in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that reducing agricultural production in these provinces and importing food commodities from other provinces or nations instead could help China conserve more water.

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Asia, a major driver of global economic growth, is both a source of competitive imports but increasingly an important destination for exports for the Canadian economy, a growing market for resource - based commodities but also agri - food products, specialized manufactures, financial and other services and, potentially, energy.

«The backbone of the business is Italian specialty foods, but as time progressed, we went on to Italian commodities, and today, we import from Europe, South America and Asia,» Bill Sauro says.

Ownership of Marengo Pastoral is split three ways between Warwick Negus, a director at ASX - listed investment firm Washington H. Soul Pattinson and his wife Louise, David Cobcroft, managing director at Sydney - based Alukea Commodities, and the superannuation fund of Robert and Samuel Mayer, who run F. Mayer Imports, a major food supplier.

What should have been presented is decade long trends about: farm and processor bank debt; return on equity; full and part - time employment trends; farm and processor business numbers; domestic versus overseas value adding to commodities; volume and value of imported ingredients and products; international versus Australian processing costs comparisons for major foods like meats, flour, oils, milk products; and the farm gate price share of the consumer dollar for fresh foods like fruit and vegetables, milk, meats, bread, juice, eggs.

Urban agriculture to a large extent complements rural agriculture and increases the efficiency of the national food system in that it (IDRC 1998) provides products that rural agriculture can not supply easily (e.g. perishable products, products that require rapid delivery upon harvest), that can substitute for food imports and can release rural lands for export production of commodities.

Europe is one of the world's largest and most productive suppliers of food, but also imports large amounts of some agricultural commodities.

Then from 2010 to 2011, the price of wheat doubled — fueled by a combination of extreme weather events linked to climate change, oil price spikes and intensified speculation on food commodities — impacting on Syrian wheat imports.

I subscribe to the school of thought that if we don't demand large amounts of imported and unnecessary commodities, such as oil and coffee, that those agricultural regions can be better be used to provide essential food crops to their own region as well as neighboring regions currently undergoing serious food shortages.