Sentences with phrase «meets sustainable food production»

Liverpool About Blog Leading scientific research meets sustainable food production to create innovative urban farming systems.

Liverpool About Blog Leading scientific research meets sustainable food production to create innovative urban farming systems.

Liverpool About Blog Leading scientific research meets sustainable food production to create innovative urban farming systems.

Liverpool About Blog Leading scientific research meets sustainable food production to create innovative urban farming systems.

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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.

Meeting the world's future food and nutritional needs in a sustainable way presents critical development challenges, underscoring the urgent need for action to enhance production while minimizing the environmental footprint of rice systems and their vulnerability to climate change.

The National Association of Retail Grocers of Australia recently highlighted that Australia's food and grocery industry is «at a crossroads» as population - driven demand grows faster than food production, pointing to challenges ahead for sustainable development.1 Water is one of the most significant and increasingly scarce resources that producers need to meet this demand.

«Changes in dairy industry benefit dairy cattle health, consumers: Dairy industry increasing food production in a sustainable manner while meeting consumers» expectations.»

This dual benefit might help to meet the urgent need for globally sustainable food production.

We were holding a meeting to assess a project to train farmers in sustainable production methods, a collaboration between the UN World Food Program and the local government in a rural village in Nusa Tenggara Barat province, Indonesia.

The RUAF Foundation, its partner ETC Foundation and PPO of Wageningen University are organising a series of thematic meetings in the Netherlands to foster policy debate on sustainable food consumption and production, to discuss opportunities and constraints for enhancing both intra - and peri-urban agriculture in the Netherlands and to facilitate exchange and dialogue in the learning community «GROW the City».

Looking forward, things to watch include: the impact of economic recovery on commodity prices and agricultural expansion for food and biofuels production; large - scale land acquisition by foreign nations and corporations in tropical countries; climate negotiations and the REDD mechanism, including controversies over land rights, «offsetting», forest definitions, and sustainable forest management; the emergence of payments for ecosystem services beyond REDD; the cap - and - trade versus carbon tax schemes; efforts to address the demand side of deforestation — notably consumption; emerging certification systems for agricultural and forestry products (i.e. RSPO, Aliança da Terra, FSC, etc); and Brazil's progress in meeting its deforestation reduction targets.

Meeting the enormous challenge of arresting climate change, the loss of biodiversity and pollution and of supporting sustainable agriculture capable of providing food for all requires major changes in production and consumption patterns.

The label stands for quality and integrity in sustainable agriculture and food production, and verifies products meeting organic standards, authenticated by an independent third party.