Sentences with phrase «of food production in»

All of SE Asia Coral Gone by 2100, Millions» Food Supply at Risk In terms of direct human impact, and in just one region of the world: A recent report by WWF shows that without strong action to prevent it, by 2100 all the corals in the so - called «Coral Triangle» of Southeast Asia could be wiped out, causing a decline of food production in the region of 80 %.

Adam Stein once wrote dismissively of vertical farming: «the notion of spending «hundreds of millions» of dollars to build weird, poorly sited temples of food production in areas much better suited to dense, green residential and retail space...

Small changes in the delicate balance of food production in this part of the world will have ramifications across the globe.

It will deliver the first global survey of projects and initiatives dealing with traditional forms of food production in cities.

Smallholder farmers account for some 80 percent of food production in sub-Saharan Africa.

Tracing the history of food production in the United States, the film charts how farming has gone from local and sustainable to a corporate Frankenstein monster that offers cheap eggs, meat, and dairy at a steep cost: the exploitation of animals; the risky use of antibiotics and hormones; and the pollution of our air, soil, and water.

The Green Revolution with its inherent bias towards monocultures of staple crops has led to unbalanced patterns of food production in many places.

The smallest of the range, the TS1260 was developed with the requirements of food production in mind.

Future studies on organic agriculture and other sustainable farming techniques should examine not just economics, but soil quality, biodiversity impacts and other aspects of food production in order to make better comparisons between different forms of agriculture, said Crowder.

The economic policies of this plan have resulted in the systematic destruction of the sphere of food production in Korea, which now imports fifty to sixty percent of its total needs, mostly from the United States.

Charismatics include not only those gifted with tongues, prophecy and healing, but Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug, whose teaching of viable methods of food production in the Third World has spared many from starvation.

This farm addresses that potential disaster and ensures the possibility of food production in times of scarcity with a system of 27 dams, soaks, tanks and high capacity bores.

Not exact matches

When former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said last fall that his earlier enthusiasm for corn - based ethanol production in the United States was a mistake, he was conceding something that had long been obvious: the practice of diverting food crops to biofuels has contributed to food shortages and driven up prices for staples across the globe.

«On average, the amount of water required to produce one liter of biofuel is the same amount that's required to produce food for a person for one day,» he said, adding that the problem with first generation biofuels was that they were competing with food production systems in terms of water and land.

Whether you're going to set up as a retail space with a production area in the back or just a production space and use retailers, distributors, and / or mail order through which to sell your product, the production area of your specialty food business is perhaps the most critical.

«Vertical farms, many stories high, will be situated in the heart of the world's urban centers,» asserts the project's website, promising year - round food production without pesticides.

The product «has the potential to reduce the ecological impact of food production,» the company wrote in a blog post announcing the launch, which also features a promo video of a man stranded on a deserted island who's able to subsist solely on the creamy white liquid.

But in addition to the impact of air miles, global land and resource use determine the sustainability of the food we eat - food production can destroy or displace natural resources in order to supply growing demand.

Resistance is also fueled by the massive and often inappropriate use of antibiotics in agriculture; for decades these precious drugs have been used to promote growth and fend off costly infections that can result from the cramped conditions of industrial - scale food animal production.

Disruptions in Venezuela's oil industry can have outsize impact on the country, as oil brings in about 95 % of its export revenue, which has been used to purchase imports like food and medicine as domestic production dries up.

Founded in 2017 and based in Emeryville, California, Finless Foods is one of a number of startups using so - called cellular agriculture to replace age - old methods of food production: farming, animal husbandry, and, in this case, fishing.

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 manneIn 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 mannein a sustainable manner.

Chinese dairy production and consumption has soared in the past three decades, averaging a 12.8 % annual growth rate since 2000 as a result of changing diet trends that are shifting more toward Western foods, according to a report by the Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy.

Pat Brown, CEO and founder of plant - based meat company Impossible Foods, wants to end the use of animals in food production by 2035.

As the co-founder of Cisco and Urban Decay, Sandy Lerner has made an impact in the worlds of technology and cosmetics, and now she is working to change the country's food production infrastructure thr...

«Food production is a critical part of our economy and going to be more so in the future.

Anheuser - Busch birthed the global beer industry and Purina the worldwide pet food market; Energizer batteries and the largest car rental company, Enterprise, launched in St. Louis; and say what you want about GMO crops pending your politics, but St. Louis - based Monsanto has ensured for a generation of food production while global farmland dissipates and worldwide population numbers soar.

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.

The European Union, prompted by safety and environmental concerns, lead a campaign to tighten controls on the production of GMO foods and implemented a labelling rule in 1997.

The promise of AI is great — from assisting healthcare providers in the early and more accurate detection of disease, to increasing yield and food production in agriculture; artificial intelligence technologies are already being deployed widely with the promise of benefitting humanity.

While protein products developed by these companies are not currently fit for human consumption, methane - based proteins could improve the environmental impact of meat production, and eventually further fuel the meatless revolution by creating another food source for developing economies in Africa and Asia.

A former Heinz frozen meals plant in Florence, S.C., is now a production facility for family - owned Ruiz Foods, a leading producer of Mexican foods and snacks.

This is due to the removal of U.S. competition and preferential access for Canadian goods in many sectors, particularly agriculture and food production.

Tylenol was buffeted by a series of quality - related product recalls and shortages in recent years as it overhauled manufacturing under a consent decree from the Food and Drug Administration, with full production in the U.S. only resuming within the past year.

In Africa many agree that it is important that the nations of that continent become more nearly self - sufficient in food production so that they are less dependent on the transnational food conglomerateIn Africa many agree that it is important that the nations of that continent become more nearly self - sufficient in food production so that they are less dependent on the transnational food conglomeratein food production so that they are less dependent on the transnational food conglomerates.

My own demand, consistent with Hardin's logic but less radical in its conclusions, is that we compute available donor aid as a percentage of total food production, and then determine quantitatively the points at which it hurts to help, endangers to help, and finally becomes suicidal to help.

For example, the rise in immediate cost of transportation, in a context where its indirect effects on speeding the melting of the glaciers are recognized, will almost certainly favor local production of food.

This would seriously disrupt food production in many regions and reduce even further the amount of food available to deal with growing starvation.

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

When the problems of increasing food production is addressed, industrial methods are applied, as in the «green revolution», further supporting the concentration of land ownership in a few hands.

In addition, citizens must be taught how to secure strong, well - staffed, and amply financed government agencies which are dedicated to the health of the people and serve them through a well - enforced body of pure food laws, a well - organized inspection and grading system, and a continuing broad program of research in nutrition and in food production and processinIn addition, citizens must be taught how to secure strong, well - staffed, and amply financed government agencies which are dedicated to the health of the people and serve them through a well - enforced body of pure food laws, a well - organized inspection and grading system, and a continuing broad program of research in nutrition and in food production and processinin nutrition and in food production and processinin food production and processing.

Agriculturists in the United States had been so fully drawn into industrial patterns of thought that they continued to assume that their task was to deal with the need for increasing food production for the growing population to which the ecologists pointed with alarm.

Left to the priorities of the men at the helm of affairs nothing will change for women in the homemaking and food production lines; men do none of this except for pay outside the home.

The hope that, by farming the sea, increasing the yield of grains, or otherwise working a miracle of production in food science and technology we can in the nick of time prevent mass starvation without any of the affluent having to give up current privileges, is vain.

There is little evidence of organized interest in the issues of land use and food production, and the voting public seems content to let farm subsidies artificially support the corn industry and postpone transformation.

Furthermore, in many developing countries price regulation in favor of providing cheap food for urban residents has been a devastating disincentive for food producers to increase their production.

Third, meat production is, in many instances, a wasteful way of producing food.

Korea is now a country dependent for its food on the United States, although Korea had been self - reliant in terms of food production for thousands of years.

On the other hand in some less fully developed regions, there must be substantial growth in the use of some essential commodities either for food production or for industrial production.

The principal determinant of whether food production per person is rising or falling in various regions is the rate of population growth.