Sentences with phrase «major food crisis»

Big Step in Building: We are at the beginning of a major food crisis and can no longer afford to lose agricultural land close to our cities and towns.

«A projected 5.1 million people will face serious food shortages as the conflict and risk of unexploded improvised devices prevented farmers planting for a third year in a row, causing a major food crisis,» the UN said on December 2.

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«For too long we've depended on a food system that favours the profits of major corporations, degrades the environment, forces farmers off the land and has resulted in a diabetes, heart health and obesity crisis.

The idea of culturing flesh for meat and other animal products is more than a gee - whiz moment for technology geeks — whoever can bring the food technology to market will take a major step toward alleviating one of the key factors fueling humanity's large looming crises.

When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration screens new opioid drugs it should better anticipate how people might abuse them in the real world, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine warns in a major report issued Thursday on the country's opioid crisis, which kills 91 people a day — often via overdoses on prescription drugs.

Research shows that cooked foods are a major contributing factor to the epidemic of weight gain and the obesity crisis we see now.

It is estimated, for example, that none of the [Millennium Development Goals] targets will be met in sub-Saharan Africa if current trends continue, and this is before account is taken of the real effects of the recent crises in food and energy, the rapid increase in impacts of climate change, and the major implications of a global economic slowdown.»

In general, the world's nations and leaders are sleep walking into a major and ongoing food crisis that will likely worsen in coming years.

(Thomson Reuters Foundation)-- Millions of people in Asia, the world's most disaster - prone region, face the threat of major climate - linked disasters and food crises because government policies fail to protect them, Oxfam warned on Thursday.

Major vulnerabilities induced from climatic hazards include human displacement, drinking water shortages, reduced agricultural productivity and food insecurity, loss of livelihoods, health hazards, energy crises, and disasters.

World grain reserves are so dangerously low that severe weather in the United States or other food - exporting countries could trigger a major hunger crisis next year, the United Nations has warned.

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The Global Report on Food Crises indicates that major risks of famine were avert - ed in 2017 in the four coun - tries that were declared at risk in early 2017: Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and North Nigeria.

com GLOBAL REPORT ON FOOD CRISES FINDS THAT IN 2017 MAJOR FAMINES WERE PARTLY AVERTED BUT FOOD SECURITY REMAINS CRITICAL FAIR TAXATION: COMMISSION PUTS IN PLACE FIRST EU COUNTER-MEASURES ON LISTED NON-COOPERATIVE TAX JURISDICTIONS development assistance and peace building sup - port in an integrated way — and thereby increasing the resilience of people and communities in part - ner countries.