Sentences with phrase «increased global food production»

A transformative technology such as the daughterless mouse project has the potential to rapidly increase global food production, reduce the use of rodenticides, improve human health and protect biodiversity around the world.

While warning that modern agricultural methods are placing unprecedented demands on our natural resources, Dr. Foley's work offers hope, promise and a way forward, offering strategic solutions for increasing global food production while reducing agriculture's often devastating environmental footprint.

Anticipated temperature increase at high latitudes will open up more lands for agriculture, increasing global food production and thus benefiting the world's poorest peoples.

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In its most recent report on the state of global fisheries, the United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization warned that 90 percent of the world's fish stocks are fully or overfished, and increasing production to meet the world's growing demand for animal protein can't be done in a sustainable manner.

Furthermore, an increase in the global food production could challenge Earth's already strained ecosystems.

When the European farmers returned to production, it increased the food supply beyond global demand.

OMG Even our foods are day by day became more artificial to face increasing market demand rather than increasing farm lands and production globally to assist avoiding the famine and that way they created jobs, hopes and fed with out being effected by global changes as a hungry man is an angry man!

An October report showed that current organic production was not meeting consumer demands for products; despite projections by Allied Market Research that the global organic food and beverages market is expected to triple the 2015 market by 2022, organic supply is still not able to meet increasing consumer demand.

Global population will increase from 7 billion to 9 billion by 2050, requiring food production to double.

New farmland is being developed in South America, rising global temperatures should increase the area of arable land in north America and northern Europe and improved governance in Africa is leading to increased food production there.

Without them our regular supply of food would reduce by about a third, at a time when we need to increase our food production to cope with a ballooning global population.

«This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the [2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient development.

To meet the needs of a world that is expected to have an additional 890 million people by 2020, the global community would need to increase food production by about 13 percent, the report states.

Growing global food demand, climate change, and climate policies favoring bioenergy production are expected to increase pressures on water resources around the world.

Reducing the energy consumed by greenhouses has become a priority as the global use of greenhouses for food production has increased six-fold over the past 20 years to more than 9 million acres today — roughly twice the size of New Jersey, according to Loik.

A growing U.S. and global population simply means more demand for food, and that means increased demand for the various solutions Dover has to offer, from commercial freezers to can and plastic container production to food prep equipment.

An ever - expanding global population will require an increase in food production and crop yields, and that is only going to be possible through higher fertilizer use in agriculture.

Climate change alters our food production dramatically — increases in global temperatures lead to unstable rainfall patterns, reduction in the soil's ability to retain moisture, and in the end: awful harvests.

With more people eating meat and dairy products, and more farmland given over to biofuel crops, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization believes that (to satisfy demand in 2050) global food production will have to increase by 70 percent over 2005 levFood and Agriculture Organization believes that (to satisfy demand in 2050) global food production will have to increase by 70 percent over 2005 levfood production will have to increase by 70 percent over 2005 levels.

Global food production must increase by 70 percent to meet a population of more than 9 billion in 2050.

To make this vision a reality, food production must increase to feed a rising global population — a population expected to grow from 6.7 billion to more than 9 billion in [continue reading...]

Global food production must rise to meet global food needs, but predicted increases in extreme weather events — combined with stresses such as poverty, conflict and weak governance — threaten food secGlobal food production must rise to meet global food needs, but predicted increases in extreme weather events — combined with stresses such as poverty, conflict and weak governance — threaten food secglobal food needs, but predicted increases in extreme weather events — combined with stresses such as poverty, conflict and weak governance — threaten food security.

This technical document stresses that an important challenge for Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) is to increase agriculture production to meet growing global demand for food, fiber and energy without proportionally increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Between global warming being exagerated (a la Schneider) and its effects actually being a net benefit through increased production of primary producers in the food chain, the chance that the earth is going to cool (Little Ice Age, end of Holocene Interglacial, Tambora II) I think it's absolutely nuts to worry about it at all.

The document looks at major global drivers of change and focuses on water as a decisive natural capital that if managed and used effectively can contribute to economic growth, sustainable development and increased food and energy production in Africa.

For example, as long as the rise in global average temperature stays below 3 degrees Celsius, some models predict that global food production could increase because of the longer growing season at mid - to high - latitudes, provided adequate water resources are available.

Major «shocks» to global food production will be three times more likely within 25 years because of an increase in extreme weather brought about by global warming, warns a new report.

The empirical evidence and peer reviewed research is indisputable - essential food production has dramatically improved while CO2 levels and global temperatures increased.

From shifting weather patterns that threaten food production, to rising sea levels that increase the risk of catastrophic flooding, the impacts of climate change are global in scope and unprecedented in scale.

However, the increasing use of certain food crops for biofuel production can in some cases significantly raise global greenhouse gas emissions as a result of deforestation and land degradation.

Global food production and food security are threatened by the greater variability of the climate and increasing occurrence of extreme weather events.

If my forecast cooling actually occurs the policy of CO2 emission reduction will add to the increasing stress on global food production caused by a cooling and generally more arid climate.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) calculated that biofuel production contributed only 5 % of the 45 % increase in global food costs that occurred between April 2007 and April 2008.

With global demand for food projected to increase by 50 % before 2030, we will need an additional 120 million hectares of agricultural land to support the required food production.

global food production may indeed increase with a rise of less than 2 C from pre-industrial levels, after that it will almost certainly fall.

Conversely, food production in northern countries, especially in industrialized nations, could increase due to the effects of global warming increasing the length of the growing season.

There's been a lot of hype on this topic, suggesting that it can massively increase soil carbon sequestration, boost food production by promoting soil microbes, and help us slow global climate change in the process.

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Frank Rijsberman, head of the world's 15 international CGIAR crop research centres, which study food insecurity, said: «Food production will have to rise 60 % by 2050 just to keep pace with expected global population increase and changing demfood insecurity, said: «Food production will have to rise 60 % by 2050 just to keep pace with expected global population increase and changing demFood production will have to rise 60 % by 2050 just to keep pace with expected global population increase and changing demand.

When water and food security are at stake, it is not possible for forest industries to focus on growth, just to increase the global production of wrapping and toilet paper.

According to many scientist, the Earth's population is expected to increase to 9 billion people by 2050, while expecting global food production to decrease.