Sentences with phrase «of food production came»

The idea of food production came up pretty quickly, and they decided to explore building a greenhouse as an outdoor classroom.

Fifty - four percent of all food production comes from California, Iowa, Texas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois, Kansas, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Indiana, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Not exact matches

With climate change set to bring about profound changes to global food production, Canada may come to find itself in something of an unforeseen sweet spot.

Raskin also reported that not one story coming out of the six - week conference dealt with UNESCO's battle against illiteracy, its development of alternative energy sources, its educational programs for scientists and engineers, its basic research into food production, and scores of other accomplishments during 1980.

The news comes weeks after Rombola Family Farms was given the all - clear by the NSW Food Authority to resume production after being named as the source of February's outbreak.

One of the key issues / messages coming out of the conference that really hit home for me, was the fact that most of our food loss and waste in the developed world is «near the fork» or in our own home, but in developing areas food loss and waste is mostly during production, handling and storage.

I've come to recognize that «school food» is a behemoth of an issue, with longstanding, complex problems that are rooted primarily at a federal — not district or school — level, and which are compounded by much larger societal issues relating to food production and consumption.

So many recent cultural shifts — a growing sense of alarm over childhood (and adult) obesity, a new interest in where our food comes from and how its production affects our health and environment, concern about climate change and the need to source food locally — all point in that direction.

Most Long Islanders don't know it, but only 20 percent of the money generated from farming on Long Island comes from food production.

Addressing water risks Maintaining global food security, feeding growing populations and satisfying the demand of water - intensive diets are all tasks that will require significantly more water for agriculture and food production activities in coming years5.

The new study comes as the debate about the role of livestock in sustainable global food production intensifies.

But if bioenergy is to become more common, we must find solutions so that the cultivation of biofuel does not come into unnecessary conflict with food production or biodiversity.

He came to believe that a steady stream of technological improvements — advances in food production and distribution, sanitation, public health, and medicine — facilitated an era of rapid evolutionary advances.

Tony McMichael of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who will be a chief speaker at the meeting, believes that the main impacts on health will come from the disruption of food production and the spread of tropical diseases such as malaria.

As fuel prices for imports rise and more and more environmental issues linked to food production come to light, the level of interest in aquaponics is «increasing astronomically,» Rakocy says.

A global team of scientists, led by those at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, used two different simulation methods and one statistical method to predict the impact of rising temperatures on global wheat production, and all came to similar estimates.

This is expected to rise in many regions over the coming decades and could reduce or even negate the beneficial effects of higher CO2 (see Climate change warning over food production).

So those two applications, using microbiomes to increase food production and make chemicals, are some of the other the blue - sky things that I can see coming out of microbiome research.

Bananas are another food that is ideal when it comes to testosterone production for a number of different reasons.

If the average CoQ10 content of the western diet is only 5 mg per day, then food contributes only about 1 percent of daily CoQ10 requirements — the balance comes from endogenous production (within the body).

The negative effects seem to lie in the capacity of some foods / nutrients to stimulate proliferative pathways that in turn stimulate development of acne — suspect foods include those with a high glycaemic load and milk.11, 43, 44 Other evidence comes from several studies reporting that the prevalence of acne varies significantly between different populations and is substantially lower in non-Westernized populations that follow traditional diets, 45 a common factor among these traditional diets being a low glycaemic load.46 Various studies have provided evidence that high - glycaemic - load diets are implicated in the aetiology of acne through their capacity to stimulate insulin, androgen bioavailability and insulin - like growth factor - 1 (IGF - 1) activity, whereas the beneficial effects of low - glycaemic - load diets, apart from weight and blood glucose levels, also include improved skin quality.44 The clinical and experimental evidence does in fact suggest ways in which insulin can increase androgen production and affect via induction of steroidogenic enzymes, 47 the secretion by the pituitary gland of gonadotropin - releasing hormone and the production of sex hormone - binding globulin.48 Insulin is also able to reduce serum levels of IGF - binding protein - 1 increasing the effect of IGF - 1.49 These insulin - mediated actions can therefore influence diverse factors that underlie the development of acne such as:

This is the third feature within a year (on top of two TV shows) to come out of Perry's fast food, drive - thru productions.

The participating companies — local, national and multi-national — came from a wide range of STEM - related fields including agricultural / horticultural science, building, media production, food production and medical science.

Walby Farm Park's owners, Neil and Katie Milbourn, firmly believe that educating the next generation to care where its food comes from is one of the most important issues in food production and farming today.

Human - food production standards differ from pet - food plant standards when it comes to cleanliness, record - keeping, the maintenance of HACCP plans and other food - safety measures.

Agriculture gave rise to the culture shift from hunter - gatherer to food producer and provided the very foundation for an economic system that depends upon the relentless increase of capabilities production, come what may.

These treats may be delicious to eat, but they come at an environmental cost — the destruction of tropical rainforests for palm oil production, a key ingredient in confectionery and most processed foods.

The group finds, as others have before them, that the challenge of doubling global food production in coming decades can probably be met, albeit with considerable difficulty.

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

Somehow, even as humanity increases the production of food over the coming decades, it must reduce the environmental footprint of agriculture.

But when debates are rehearsed simply for debate's sake, and when dogma, rather than reason, drives the conversation, it's necessary to re-examine the terms of our conflicts and the assumptions upon which they rest — such as the support of so many environmentalists for renewables over a zero - carbon energy source like nuclear, or the deep - seated resistance to biotechnology and machines when it comes to food production.

With the population shooting up, the climate changing and agriculture a mess which loses up to a third of its food production the time to act on food security has come argues a powerful panel of major international scientists.

The manual concludes that if agriculture aims to adapt to climate change and achieve food security and nutrition goals in the coming decades, food production systems and ecosystems need to become more flexible, multifunctional and capable of providing multiple services.

We've highlighted the work of Rob Greenfield a few times before, most notably his bike tour fueled by dumpster food and his willingness to come to the aid of dumpster divers who get arrested for their scavenging, but this next project of his is somewhat cringe - worthy, as it entails taking the normally hidden aspect of modern American life, our trash production, and putting it literally on his back.

Over three quarters of that second number above comes from inputs in the food production process.

Basic math also shows that the amount of land required to simply replace fossil fuels with biofuels is daunting, and quite possibly crippling for the amount of food production required to feed the coming wave of 9 billion people.

Treehugger has often used illustrations of WWII posters, noting how the issues that were so important then, like food production, waste and travel, have come around again.

Yet more evidence that Schneider believed in a coming ice age: In 1976 in «The Genesis Strategy» he wrote: «I have cited many examples of recent climatic variability and repeated the warnings of several well - known climatologists that a cooling trend has set in — perhaps one akin to the Little Ice Age — and that climatic variability, which is the bane of reliable food production, can be expected to increase along with the cooling.»

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.

Underlying the price jump is a tight balance between supply and demand, and it has come to a head at a time when people are becoming more aware of the challenges that climate change will pose to food production.

The study comes as corn - ethanol faces increasing criticism from environmentalists who say the increased corn production is worsening air and water pollution, depleting water supplies, driving record high food prices, and contributing to deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.

«Injuries can come from many different sources, whether they involve an intentional act (such as physical battery or slander), the negligent production of dangerous prescription drugs, or even tainted food.

- Fault find on PLC's - Comply with maintenance systems and procedures, including those regarding Health and Safety and Quality assurance The successful Maintenance Engineer must come from a manufacturing or packaging background and will have an approved Engineering, time served apprenticeship or HNC ideally with experience of working within a FMCG / Food production factory or a high speed or packaging environment.