Sentences with phrase «of food scarcity»

During times of food scarcity our cell membranes become more sensitive to insulin.

We humans spent much of our evolutionary history hunting and gathering with extended periods of food scarcity.

The animals passed on this «whim of nature» to their offspring, who, for their part, were better able to survive periods of food scarcity.

From Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity by Lester R. Brown (New York: W.W. Norton & Co.).

Adapted from Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity by Lester R. Brown (New York: W.W. Norton & Co.).

You can also use them to explain to your child how bears hibernate in the winter because of food scarcity.

The study refutes the notion that climate change will increase the frequency of civil war in Africa as a result of food scarcity triggered by rising temperatures and drought.

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Climate change is also likely to eat up more arable land, contributing to fears of food scarcity, as well as the loss of biodiversity, which is likely to occur at a faster rate.

I have perhaps too MANY passions all clamoring for time, whether it be writing or political reform or embracing energy renewal and addressing the issues of food scarcity (I guess those are political too though my focus is more on the tech side of it).

Providing TNR services reduces the number of kittens born into the harsh conditions of outdoor colonies where they are at risk of food scarcity, disease and predators.

Lester's most recent book Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity exposes the increasingly volatile food situation the world is facing.

Lester Brown's book, Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity examines the underlying causes of what is likely the first link in our modern civilization to show that we have pushed beyond the boundaries of the natural systems that support us.

Imagine cities covered with these algal canopies — this could be the future of how a new, responsive and biologically - based architecture could help solve the problems of food scarcity, deforestation and energy, all in one.

From feeding the 5000 with waste food to growing produce on a supermarket roof, we've already seen plenty of projects that are taking on the notion of food scarcity by reveling in abundance and possibility.

The study authors suggest that this positive feedback loop may have served an important role in evolution, by prompting animals to fatten up when they stumbled across calorically dense food in times of food scarcity.

In their letter accompanying the book they wrote, «The enclosed book, Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity by Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute, contains the best analysis of what Chuck Sloan inherently knew.

You do not need supplemenys IF you go into ketosis the way you are supposed to: because of food scarcity or by calories scarcity.

This thriftiness is likely to be advantageous during periods of food scarcity, but lead to obesity in times of nutritional excess, says team member Stephen McGarvey at Brown University.

Curated by Marije Vogelzang, a designer who leads the food design department at Design Academy Eindhoven, the exhibition offers an insight into how food will be grown, processed, transport, and eaten in the future, and how farming systems could change as a result of food scarcity and new technologies.

«The world is entering a new food era, one marked by rising food prices, growing numbers of hungry people, and an emerging politics of food scarcity.

Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity By Lester Brown.

Ketone esters are small organic chemicals that provide energy for the heart, brain and skeletal muscle in a highly efficient way, but are typically produced by the body only during periods of food scarcity and are not naturally present in typical modern diets.

Shortages of fertile females were particularly common in times of food scarcity, when baboon troops distance themselves from each other and females take 15 percent longer between successive births — which means males who don't kill have even longer to wait.

In fact, humans have always fasted, whether just overnight, during more extended periods of food scarcity, or for religious reasons.

The research team suggests this mechanism may have played a role in evolution by stimulating animals to fatten up in times of food scarcity.

Bone broth was not just a staple food, it sustained families during times of food scarcity and satiated the many hungry bellies.

'' The organization of the females» response to the energy restricted diets is suggestive of some underlying mechanism that may allow for an organized, pre-programmed, response to enhance survival in times of food scarcity.

This hormonal change may be a remnant of our ancestral hunter - gatherer days where it would be an advantage to feel motivated and energized to go out and hunt during periods of food scarcity.

Why would the body hold onto this precious fat storage and instead cannibalize our vital organs and muscle tissue, because of food scarcity?

Like other sexually size - dimorphic birds, female blue - footed boobies usually favor the smaller sex during times of food scarcity.

Lester R. Brown is President of Earth Policy Institute and author of Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity.

Lester R. Brown, Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012).

Editor's note: Late last year, I was thrilled to review Lester Brown's latest book Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity.

This opens a new chapter in the geopolitics of food scarcity.

Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity by Lester Brown is scheduled for release on October 1.

Already being translated into ten other languages, Full Planet addresses the major issues of today centered around the new geopolitics of food scarcity.

Welcome to the new geopolitics of food scarcity.

May 4: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm, Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity, Carnegie Council, 170 East 64 Street, New York, NY 10065.

January also saw Lester speaking at the Women's National Democratic Club on the new geopolitics of food scarcity and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.

Bugs can provide a source of nutrition during seasonal times of food scarcity.

These tables and graphs help to explain the precarious situation in which humanity finds itself, as the world leaves an era of food surpluses and enters one of food scarcity.

More than 150 data sets accompany Lester R. Brown's latest book, Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity.

Urban Farms Reduce Air Pollution» [People] being able to supply their own fruit and vegetables is clearly an advantage in a time of food scarcity and rising prices.

To learn more about global food security see Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity (W.W. Norton, 2012) by Lester R. Brown.

For more information, see «Meat Consumption in China Now Double That in the United States,» by Janet Larsen, and the latest book from Earth Policy Institute, Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity, by Lester R. Brown.

Lester R. Brown is president of the Earth Policy Institute and author of Breaking New Ground: A Personal History (W.W. Norton, 2013) and Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity.