Sentences with phrase «models of food production»

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We showcase the dreamers and builders of tomorrow — the entrepreneurs and visionaries who are not just creating the next generation's medical marvels, models, and platforms, but also redefining everything from television to banking to security to the production of food.

Around the fringes of the agricultural establishment more and more individuals are repulsed by the threat to the sustainability of food production built into the industrial model.

Some foods have been greatly changed to fit an industrial model of production and processing for the sake of cheap food and high profits.

The theme will use a structured program of field sampling to generate information needed to develop and populate models of primary production and energy flow in Murray - Darling Basin food webs.

In a video message Laudemir André Muller, Minister for Agrarian Development, Brazil, talked about a set of public policies for a more sustainable production model, in particular the National Plan on Agroecology and Organic Production, designed for rural development and healtproduction model, in particular the National Plan on Agroecology and Organic Production, designed for rural development and healtProduction, designed for rural development and healthier food.

Processed food manufacturers focused on inhibiting Listeria growth in their products will have an even stronger tool at their disposal when Corbion introduces the latest BETA version of its Corbion Listeria Control Model at the 2017 International Production and Processing Expo in Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 31 - Feb.

None of today's fair food farmers would seek to reproduce the horrendous production model of intensive poultry that Tyson introduced back in the 1930s.

Tetra Pak Processing has added a new model to its range of batch production units for food processing.

The model accounts for factors such as the suitability of cropland for cultivation, the interdependencies of dairy and meat production, and the use of coproducts of food production to feed livestock.

Back in the 1960s, Dennis and Donella Meadows, a husband and wife team, tried to model the world in terms of things like population, food production, standard of living, and so on to get some sense of where the world was going.

The researchers used satellite observations including determinations of net primary production (NPP)-- the net production of organic matter from aqueous carbon dioxide (CO2) by phytoplankton — to drive their food - web - based model.

Those models will look at impacts such as regional average temperature change, sea - level rise, ocean acidification, and the sustainability of soils and water as well as the impacts of invasive species on food production and human health.

«Global and regional health effects of future food production under climate change: a modelling study» by Marco Springmann et al. published in The Lancet on Wednesday 2 March.

While Pollard's research focuses on understanding the microbiome through bioinformatics and modeling, other projects study human disorders such as diabetes and asthma, the impact of the ocean and soil on climate change, and the influence of plants, animals, and water on food production.

As part of this work the team also developed a new model using the surplus spleens of pigs processed for food production.

And, as much as vegans wouldn't want to admit it, if the human species returned to a more literal Paleo picture — actually hunting for actual wild animals when necessary (and eating them fresh), making animal foods just a part of the overall diet, and eating no refined plants (like white flour or white rice, which don't exist in nature), a couple things would happen: (1) we could put an end to the horrific treatment of animals in the factory farming industry, and (2) the environmental devastation that results from our current food production model would be substantially minimized.

Every so often, farming processes included adding harmful toxins in herbicides and pesticides, not mentioning the feeding of animals in confined conditions which has drastically changed food production from the small local and sustainable farm model that the informed general population would want.

The concept of sustainability is visible in a concrete context via the school's greenhouse and food production model.

The award recognizes a veterinarian, who through his or her contributions to food animal practice, organized veterinary medicine, high ideals and dedication to the production of food animals, serves as a role model for veterinary students.

It could be that the fragile agricultural / distribution (energy intensive) food supply, energy procurement / production / distribution infrastructure, quality of basic life skills education, and social «getting alongness» between the various religions, countries, and «independent» peoples are larger here and now priorities than a new world wide hedge fund modeled carbon trading scam that will make ZERO impact on the weather and climate we live within for generations.

Portfish's vision is to create a working model of an aquaponics system based on best practices that can be replicated to promote and engage communities in local sustainable food production.

Beyond Pesticides is a Washington, D.C. - based 501c3 non-profit campaigning, regulatory and advocacy organization founded in 1984 that focuses on replacing commercial pesticides with the organic model of pest control methods and banning all commercial food production technologies involving genetically modified plants and organisms (GMOs).

For Brazil, international climate negotiations should not be focused on discussing REDD and other market - based mechanisms, but rather on the transition to a new production, distribution and consumption model based on agroecology, on a solidarity - based economic approach, and on a diversified and decentralized energy matrix capable of ensuring food security and sovereignty.

UNDP's Rapport mondial sur le développement humain 2006 (PDF)-- which focuses on the global water crisis, is just one example of a model - based climate - impact study that shows net decreasing North - African food production as a result of continued global climate change.

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.

The results of this model - based study fall in line with the previous work of Idso (2013), who calculated similar CO2 - induced benefits on global crop production by mid-century based on real - world experimental data, both of which studies reveal that policy prescriptions designed to limit the upward trajectory of atmospheric CO2 concentrations can have very real, and potentially serious, repercussions for global food security.

THE Club Of Rome's 1972 environmental best - seller «The Limits To Growth», examined five variables in the original model: world population, industrialisation, pollution, food production and resource depletion.

Aydin, K. Y., G. A. McFarlane, J. R. King, B. A. Megrey, and K. W. Myers, 2005: Linking oceanic food webs to coastal production and growth rates of Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.), using models on three scales.

The joint study, published by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) under the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), models the global suitability of arabica cultivation to see how production will be affected in 2050.

Using assumptions about future population, economic growth, trading conditions and technological progress, the trade model estimated plausible prices of food commodities on the international market given supply as defined by the production estimates.

This production - oriented model is coming unstuck on the new fundamentals of rocketing food and commodity prices.

They conducted a series of model simulations that indicate an intensification of food and feed crop production is the most effective contribution to global climate mitigation for land in the Midwest.

Of course, the biggest obvious benefit would come through more local food production and the transition away from growing the (mostly) useless crop of grass in yards and toward a more sustainable model of homegrown food and DIY livinOf course, the biggest obvious benefit would come through more local food production and the transition away from growing the (mostly) useless crop of grass in yards and toward a more sustainable model of homegrown food and DIY livinof grass in yards and toward a more sustainable model of homegrown food and DIY livinof homegrown food and DIY living.

There are numerous research and models that show the impact of climate change on global agriculture and all of them show decrease in food production and deterioration in health and welfare.

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