Sentences with phrase «nature of food production»

Due to the nature of food production, it's possible for all manner of foreign bodies to make their way into food products.

Not exact matches

Peasant involvement in nature is primarily through their relationship with the earth in the production of food and fodder.

At its core, the organic sector is about the production of fresh, tasty and authentic food that respects nature.

This presentation will seek to examine what is known about on - farm losses, identify major gaps in knowledge, and propose steps forward for how to demystify the nature of food loss at the production level.

Since the conventional production of food involves a string of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and other icky things that are released into the ground, water, and air, buying organic takes a bit of the pressure off Mother Nature.

The study in the journal Nature showed that roads can aid farmers, especially in developing nations where food production is held back by a lack of access to markets or to fertilisers and other technologies.

As a possible step toward the goal of doubling food production by 2050 to feed our expanding human population, researchers have transferred a key photosynthesis gene from a blue - green algae into a tobacco plant, according to a Nature news story.

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.

Trans fats do exist in nature but also occur during the processing of polyunsaturated fatty acids in food production.

Lion's mane mushroom is one of nature's most powerful brain foods because it helps stimulate nerve growth (NGF) production (1).

Geography: International trade, including access to markets, inequality and «fair trade»; the nature of economic, political, social and environmental interdependence in the contemporary world; inequities of global systems and how they can result in unemployment, poverty and declining welfare standards for some people and localities, and advantages for other people and localities; food production, circulation and consumption.

Our consequent early success at doing so on (i.e., food production in surplus, the creation of habitation in harsh climates, life extension through medicine, etc.) have convinced us over time that the «rough justice» of nature could be attenuated to the point of irrelevancy.

There are quite a few scientists out there who see 9 or 10 billion — believe it or not — as a livable number (in terms of food production, at lesat), although many wonder how much «nature» will be left over.

It has long been recognised that climate variability and change have an impact on food production, (e.g., Mendelsohn et al., 2000a, b; Devereux and Maxwell, 2001; Fischer et al., 2002; Kurukulasuriya and Rosenthal, 2003), although the extent and nature of this impact is as yet uncertain.

There is also deforestation, food production emissions (particularly in beef), pollution, and other intertwined problems of our Mother Nature.

The World Wide Fund for Nature, an international non-governmental organization promoting conservation and biodiversity, stresses that climate change «will impact some of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people, disrupting food production, and threatening vitally important species, habitats and ecosystems.»

It is a vision of: urbanization, as people in cities have more opportunities and use resources more efficiently; intensified food production to increase yields and leave more room for nature; the expanded use of nuclear energy, which has zero emissions and the smallest land footprint of any energy source; greater development of GMOs to reduce chemical use and increase yields; animal - free meat; «re-wilding» former farm and pasture lands with wolves, buffalo, mountain lions, and even formerly extinct species — all the while supporting universal human dignity.

This vision, as outlined in An Ecomodernist Manifesto, is one of urbanization; intensified food production to increase yields and leave more room for nature; the expanded use of nuclear energy, which has zero emissions and the smallest land footprint of any energy source; greater development of GMOs to reduce chemical use and increase yields; animal - free meat; and «rewilding» former farm and pasture lands with wolves, buffalo, mountain lions, and even formerly extinct species.

Adding substantially to the benefits of milder northern winters (extended growing seasons, cattle farms and apple orchards in Greenland, and things of that nature) is the effect of increased CO2 on primary production in the food chain (green plants).

Second, the rapid and large - scale exploitation of fossil fuels [4]-- a vast stock of nonrenewable resources accumulated by Nature over hundreds of millions of years that are being drawn down in just a few centuries — and the invention of the Haber — Bosch process to use natural gas to produce nitrogen fertilizer [5,6] enabled increasingly higher levels of food and energy production.