Sentences with phrase «increasing food imports»

Food consumption in the UK is likely to rise by 38 % by 2050, but the researchers believe the target can be met without increasing food imports.

Not exact matches

But price rises also moderated for other items such as television sets and processed food, a sign the increase in import costs from previous yen falls was dissipating.

Higher prices paid to farmers, combined with lower imports, may increase grocery and restaurant costs for baked goods and cereals as much as 4 percent next year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday in its first forecast of food - price inflation for 2018.

The country has also increased tariffs on many imported U.S. food and agriculture goods, including fruit, nuts and pork.

The importance of this is that the Chinese can relieve some of the food price pressure by increasing imports to offset whatever domestic shortfalls are causing the higher food costs.

But excluding both fuels and food, import prices ticked up 0.1 % last month from January, their first increase since May 2014.

Need to Manufacture Equipment Indigenously: Moreover, all the equipment used for food testing currently has to be imported from abroad, which increases operation costs astronomically.

Whilst international companies keen to increase their brand presence in the Nordic market (imports account for around 50 % of organic sales in Sweden alone) include Clearspring; DO - IT (Dutch Organic International Trade); Ogilvy's Honey; Voelkel organic juices; IDOrganics; Horizon Natuurvoeding BV; Ocram; Spielberger GmbH; Frescolat SRL; Epikourous; Felix Himstedt; and Holle baby food GmbH to name just a few.

With access to quality and imported foods being two of the main drivers of online consumer demand, online retailers are eager to find new suppliers and increase their international product offerings.

The EU says it will also increase scrutiny on imported products to make sure they meet the definitions of organic food and farming.

Travel times have increased along congested roads and much imported and local food has lost its freshness long before it reaches the consumer.

Food trade with Ethiopia: a 2.770 billion US Dollar business During the past years Ethiopian food imports have increased by 21 percent annually, from 0.866 billion US$ in 2009 to 2.738 billion US$ in 2Food trade with Ethiopia: a 2.770 billion US Dollar business During the past years Ethiopian food imports have increased by 21 percent annually, from 0.866 billion US$ in 2009 to 2.738 billion US$ in 2food imports have increased by 21 percent annually, from 0.866 billion US$ in 2009 to 2.738 billion US$ in 2015.

Nestle doesn't expect raw material prices to rise further this year, despite a recent FAO report that forecasts an increase of over 2 per cent in the world food import bill in 2006.

Increased purchasing power in China has helped fuel demand for protein rich and premium imported foods, while well - publicised domestic food safety scandals have further spurred demand for food imports in China.

For Australian consumers, the increase of food imports from countries facing severe contamination issues - such as China - creates a difficult choice between the superior and more expensive Australian product and the often much cheaper import.

With increased reliance on imports, the Canadian food sector could miss out on big opportunities, as the world's demand for food is widely expected to grow by about 70 percent by 2050.

Increased global demand for imported breast milk substitutes (infant formula, follow - on formula and toddler milks) in Asia, particularly China, and food safety recalls have led to shortages of these products i...

Our food import have increased progressively over the period (see Fig. 1) to compensate for supply deficits on the local market, compounding the already dire...

The government's hope is that this will equip and empower communities to utilize their local resources in manufacturing products in a bid to increase agricultural and manufacturing output, reduce reliance on imports and increase the production of consumer goods and food availability.

According to him, the large yearly fluctuations in the production of maize and rice witnessed and the sharp increase in the import of rice from 384,400 metric tonnes in 2009 to 645,000 metric tonnes in 2013 attested to deepening food insecurity in the country.

«We recognized that countries that imported food could be impacted by climate shocks in other parts of the world that suddenly increased prices, even if they weren't experiencing any significant weather impacts themselves,» Braumoeller said.

As fuel prices for imports rise and more and more environmental issues linked to food production come to light, the level of interest in aquaponics is «increasing astronomically,» Rakocy says.

Countries that depend upon food imports and whose people spend one - third or more of their income on food are most vulnerable to increased global food prices, according to an analysis by Japanese investment firm Nomura.

A permanently erratic and harsh monsoon would depress crop yields, increase erosion on farms, and cause a rise in global food prices as India is forced to import more food.

The state's canned peach industry is behind a proposed law, «American Food for American Schools Act,» in Congress that would tighten the rules for buying imported food for the federal school lunch program and increase public awarenFood for American Schools Act,» in Congress that would tighten the rules for buying imported food for the federal school lunch program and increase public awarenfood for the federal school lunch program and increase public awareness.

For every cent the loonie drops, foods that are imported will likely increase 1 % or more.

«You haven't seen the increased prices on local foods, locally produced foods in the way you have for imports,» said Ran Goel, who founded the Greater Toronto Area's Fresh City Farms in 2011.

I like Unilever too but isn't the increasing Russian sanctions vs import of food etc from the EU a risk as a big part of the sales comes from Russia?

Even after all these scares, dog and cat food imports from China have grown from 58.8 million pounds in 2008 to 85.8 pounds in 2011, an increase of 46 % according to the Food and Drug Administratfood imports from China have grown from 58.8 million pounds in 2008 to 85.8 pounds in 2011, an increase of 46 % according to the Food and Drug AdministratFood and Drug Administration.

``... Senator Dick Durbin, who serves on the Senate Appropriations Committee overseeing food safety, called for a hearing on the recall of these tainted petfood products and said that while it is not realistic to stop importing from countries like China, additional inspections may be one option for increased safety.

There is also no question that the world's most vulnerable disproportionately live in Africa where food aid has failed to keep ahead of the hunger curve.But the answer to this issue lies in the new «Post-Modern Green Revolution» not in the historic «Green Revolution» approach where yields are artificially increased by importing the practices of genetically engineered seeds and petroleum - based fertilizer.

As oil exporting nations experience both declining oil production and increased domestic oil consumption, they will reduce oil exports to the U.S. Because the U.S. is highly dependent on imported oil for transportation, food production, industry, and residential heating, the nation will experience the impacts of declining oil supplies sooner and more severely than much of the world.

Off topic, i have been reading about how world energy prices are affecting the food chain... I keep getting the sense that due to the dependency of imported food as well as population increase, we may be creating an «emergency», with malnutrituion and starvation in the world.

The RUAF network was initiated in response to the needs identified by a group of representatives from 28 international organisations, including UNDP, FAO, IDRC, GTZ and CIRAD, that met in Ottawa (Canada) in 1994 and recognised the need to address the increasing «urbanisation of poverty» and growing urban food insecurity related to urban - rural migration, lack of formal employment, rising food prices, growing dependence on food imports, increasing dominance of supermarkets and fast food chains, and challenges posed by climate change.

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.

Urban agriculture plays an important role in enhancing urban food security since the costs of supplying and distributing food to urban areas based on rural production and imports continue to increase, and do not satisfy the demand, especially of the poorer sectors of the population.

This loss of agricultural land would lead to a decrease of food production, necessarily leading to an increase in imports — thus undermining food self - sufficiency and the country's economy.