Sentences with phrase «of global food»

Italianfood.net provides reliable, strategic market information and in - depth analysis of global food and beverage trends, corporate news and product launches of the most imporant Italian manufacturers.

Her experience in Government includes initiatives such as the development of the Provincial Immigration strategy, the establishment of the Global Food Institute, the Sylvia Fedoruk Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation, establishment of Innovation Saskatchewan, construction of the first Women's Shelter built by the Provincial Government since 1989, the creation of the Office of the Counsel for Children, and changes to the Human Rights Code regarding transgender persons and Kate's Place, a supportive residence for women who are attending Regina Drug Treatment Court.

Kathy Krug is the co-chair of the global food and agribusiness group and heads the Canadian food and agribusiness team.

Professor Elliott will be speaking about the controversial issue of sustaining global food supply to the rapidly growing world population and challenge the audience with ideas about the future of global food security and the role we have to play in it.

For example, KPMG estimates that climate change could put the total profit of the global food industry at risk by 2030, and the OECD predicts over $ 45 trillion of assets could be at risk by 2050 due to floods.

Fisheries generated a total of 179 million tonnes of CO2 - equivalent GHG emissions in 2011 (4 % of global food production).

These too, he says, are essential to the future of global food security.

FAnd most of this global food trade is completely unnecessary, or redundant.

But most of the global food trade isn't benefiting small - scale farmers — it's benefiting the biggest grain traders at the cost of the climate.

This guidance document provides an overview of global food loss and waste, carbon footprint of global food wastage, carbon footprint intensities and food wastage reduction scenario and climate change mitigation.

Food Tank had the opportunity to talk with BCFN Alumni Sujardin Syarifuddin about why it's important that youth are active participants in shaping the future of global food systems.

Extreme weather causes crop production losses, but until now, scientists «did not know exactly how much global production was lost to extreme weather events and how they varied by different regions of the world,» said Navin Ramankutty, a professor of global food security and sustainability at the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia, and one of the study authors.

Protecting crop diversity and making sure the genetic heritage preserved in seed banks is shared among nations are cornerstones of global food security.

-- The expectation of global food insecurity (my primary concern).

Now if neuro - scientists were claiming that a particular naturally biologically occurring chemical could drastically raise or lower brain function; but they only knew it because of computer models; and the computer models» prediction so far were garbage; and many of the neuro - scientists were caught lying and fudging data; and the chemical were necessary for normal brain function anyway; but they were arguing that we should reorder the world economy anyway by giving them control of the global food economy to limit the slight increase in ingestion that they claim is so dangerous....

But the G8 statements on carbon emissions have been eclipsed by discussions of the global food crisis and biofuels, and the supposed causal connection between the two.

Despite the complexity of global food supply, here we show that simple measures of growing season temperatures and precipitation — spatial averages based on the locations of each crop — explain ~ 30 % or more of year - to - year variations in global average yields for the world's six most widely grown crops.

Avery is the editor of Global Food Quarterly, the newsletter of the Center for Global Food Issues and writes a nationally syndicated weekly column for the financial newswire «Bridge News».

It says its report, Food Wastage Footprint: Impacts on Natural Resources, is the first study to analyse the impacts of global food waste from an environmental perspective.

Joseph Bast, who works with the group, highlighted some of the group's conclusions in Forbes: There is little risk of global food insecurity owing to higher levels of CO2, as higher CO2 will greatly aid plant productivity; «No changes in precipitation patterns, snow, monsoons, or river flows that might be considered harmful to human well - being or plants or wildlife have been observed that could be attributed to rising CO2»; and little risk to aquatic or dry - land ecosystems.

Food threat Climate change is already taking a sizeable chunk out of global food supply...

Climate change is already taking a sizeable chunk out of global food supply and it is going to get worse.

They are a CGIAR Research Center, part of a global food security research partnership.

In Session Four we learned that meeting the food, energy and income needs of the poorest would require only 3 % of the global food supply, a 1 % increase in CO2 emissions, and 0.2 % of the global income.

But they are also susceptible to abrupt and rapid changes and crises, such as global financial meltdowns or the volatility of the global food system.

On June 5th, World Environment Day drew attention to the issue of global food waste.

While the world's farmers harvest enough food to feed the planet, it is estimated that up to 50 % of the global food supply is wasted.

SPG ® Cravings is the name of our global food and drink loyalty program.

In the area of livestock, we see the need and the opportunity to continue to help ensure the vibrancy, the vitality and the abundance of the global food supply and clearly to support those like farmers, producers and the like who work every day to protect the safety and wellbeing and welfare of the animals that are destined for the food supply.

* Shocked to learn up to one third of global food production's wasted?

Look at the bigger picture of the global food exchange in Food: The New Gold, by Kathlyn Gay.

In their quest to innovate, the Roca brothers, co-owners of El Celler De Can Roca (recently named the World's Best Restaurant) closed the restaurant for five weeks to tour the world with the entire staff, and design 57 new dishes paying tribute to local food traditions and ingredients and the power of global food culture.

Proctor also attended a Hunger Banquet — an event that simulates the stark realities of global food shortages and food insecurity, where a small percentage of the participants receive a full three - course meal, while the majority eat just a small cup of rice.

She was also part of a group that organized their own local hunger banquet in Ithaca, to show Tompkins county residents the realities of global food inequity.

«Pollinators are the essential and silent heroes of our global food system.»

The United Nations recently projected that up to one quarter of global food production could be lost by 2050 due to the combined impact of climate change, land degradation, and water scarcity.

Science Minister, Jo Johnson MP, said: «From disease protection to improving management of global food shocks, these research projects will help tackle the serious threat of food shortages.

But the issue of global food security is much broader than the supply of food — it also refers to the challenges of our dependence on globally imported food, rising food prices, food waste and the provision of a nutritious, balanced diet.

Food and economic analysts are warning that these governments could be the first victims of the global food crisis, and others are similarly vulnerable.

«Action is urgently needed to understand risks better, improve the resilience of the global food system to weather - related shocks and to mitigate their impact on people,» said Tim Benton, a population ecologist at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, who heads the GFS program, in a statement.

Such scaremongering is especially painful to me because even though I do not think that government - approved GMO foods pose meaningful health risks to consumers, and even though I believe strategic genetic engineering can be an important tool to ease human suffering on our warming and resource - constrained planet, I share the concerns of many environmentalists about the homogenization and consolidation of the global food system — trends that are accelerated by the spread of industrially produced GMOs.

Agricultural production in the western U.S. is an important part of the global food supply.

The models show that climate change is a less influential driver of global food security than income, population and productivity — but it could still pose a significant risk to the nutrition levels of people living in the world's poorest regions, Baldos said.

The center's establishment is a «momentous event in the history of global food security,» claims CIMMYT Director General Thomas A. Lumpkin.

Fewer crop species are feeding the world than 50 years ago — raising concerns about the resilience of the global food system, a study has shown.

Mr Brown is not the only member of government said to be warming to the idea of GM crops in the face of global food riots.

Thanks to more than 125 years of specialty ingredient expertise, Nexira knows perfectly how to satisfy the demands and needs of the global food industry, by continually delivering all - natural functional ingredients with clean labeling and healthy benefits.

«I'm proud to be part of the Champions initiatives effort to raise awareness on sustainable development goal 12.3 and the reduction of global food loss and food waste in 2030.»

Organic sales represent a small share, between 1 - 2 percent, of global food and beverages, but they constitute a growing market that appears to be more than a passing fashion.

Check out the latest updates on the work of the Global Food Safety Initiative, its Technical Working Groups and Local Groups around the world.