Sentences with phrase «landing in a future crisis»

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Attempts to address climate change that remove land and control from local communities will only result in greater susceptibility to future droughts and further crises like the one we are seeing now.»

Considering the two main channels through which the drought and food crisis affects welfare in Kenya, the document identifies four broad policy changes that can reduce Kenya's future vulnerability to such shocks: (i) investment in people in the arid and semiarid lands; (ii) reform of Kenya's maize policy; (iii) review of the East African Community grain trade policy; and (iv) formulation of a unified social protection system.

So this landfill just grows higher with the problem delayed for others to resolve in a future crisis since they are still not currently working to divert the waste stream currently land filled, or planning to site a new landfill for the City of Toledo.

«Land degradation and desertification may be regarded as the silent crisis of the world, a genuine threat to the future of humankind,» Arnalds said.Although food production has more or less kept pace with population growth by increasing 50 percent between 1980 and 2000, it is unclear whether we'll have enough food to feed the estimated three billion more mouths in 2050.