Sentences with phrase «of global hunger»

The same is tru of transgenic seeds, which require a different kind of PR cover — the specter of global hunger — to be marketable.

Assembly, case studies and activities aimed at helping schools to engage with a major new campaign to end the scandal of global hunger.

The text explores the harsh reality of global hunger and how it has become a vicious cycle for impoverished families in developing countries.

Population control is an often - cited talking point of global hunger, but this ignores the more significant issue of resource consumption.

As we respond to the crisis, we must also challenge the biblical and theological assumptions which have allowed the church to participate uncritically in structures that contribute to the root causes of global hunger and poverty.

The Pope's remarks echo statements he made to an Italian newspaper in December in which he tied breastfeeding to the problem of global hunger.

Because of the global hunger for crude, the demand for U.S. dollars experienced a similar, sustained hunger.

Not exact matches

Social entrepreneurship contests: Entrepreneurs working on solving global problems such as hunger, poverty, energy and education now have a smorgasbord of contests from which to choose, including the Hult Global Case Challenge, which awards $ 1 million in prizes annglobal problems such as hunger, poverty, energy and education now have a smorgasbord of contests from which to choose, including the Hult Global Case Challenge, which awards $ 1 million in prizes annGlobal Case Challenge, which awards $ 1 million in prizes annually.

Executives are also more upbeat on the prospect of both U.S. and global economic growth in 2018, stoking the hunger for mergers and acquisitions.

Marriott Vacations Worldwide (NYSE: VAC) continues the fight to end hunger by donating more than 101,000 pounds of food as a result of their global food drive, Harvest for Hhunger by donating more than 101,000 pounds of food as a result of their global food drive, Harvest for HungerHunger.

In November, Marriott Vacations Worldwide (NYSE: VAC) created and hosted its first - ever Harvest for Hunger global food drive which resulted in 53,327 pounds of food donated to food banks worldwide.

The Good Food Institute (GFI) is on the forefront of the movement to use food technology and markets to solve some of the world's biggest problems, from climate change and global hunger to antibiotic resistance and the exploitation of billions of animals annually.

ORLANDO, Fla. — March 17, 2017 — Marriott Vacations Worldwide (NYSE: VAC) continues the fight to end hunger by donating more than 62,000 pounds of food as a result of their global food drive, Harvest for Hhunger by donating more than 62,000 pounds of food as a result of their global food drive, Harvest for HungerHunger.

I am repeatedly impressed how quickly I, and other well - meaning Christians, turn from impassioned statements about the evil of oppression and hunger on a global scale to talk of our need for better salaries, our hopes for economic security in retirement, and our boats or Summer cottages.

Francis drew a standing ovation on Monday at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, where he marked the UN's World Food Day by calling for governments to work together to tackle the interconnected problems of hunger, global warming and migration.

Day in and day out we are surrounded by globalising developments viz., the emergence of the global communication industry; the phenomenal growth of transnational corporations; the dominance of finance capital; globalization of poverty and hunger.

For hunger, like no other issue, goes right to the heart of global injustice.

There is a massive amount of biblical and theological work to be done simultaneously with our practical response to such pressing issues as global hunger.

Reverend Beckwith's former association with the United Church of Religious Science (UCRS) led to their 2001 adoption of the «Global Heart Vision,» calling for «a world free of homelessness, violence, war, hunger, separation and disenfranchisement.»

I think keeping ideals in mind is very good to keep us humble and hungering for more, but the risk is that people then appoint themselves apostles and church planters to the body of christ global and defend their expression of church as touching on gods purpose more than anyone else.

Suffice it to say that on nearly all lists would appear an unholy trinity of (1) nuclear or RCB warfare, (2) population and hunger, and (3) increasingly the possibility of ecological unbalance of catastrophic global proportions.

Hunger, impoverishment, and wasteful consumerism are being promoted by a process of victimization which paradoxically, is taking place in the midst of global economic growth and technological advancement.

-- Julie Clawson, author ofEveryday Justice: The Global Impact of Our Daily Choices and The Hunger Games and the Gospel

For Barton, a righteous God is primarily concerned with abortion, divorce, public displays of the Ten Commandments and homosexual sex — not with poverty, racial oppression, environmental degradation or global hunger.

World leaders met in New York last week to discuss the progress of global efforts to reduce poverty, hunger and disease.

Author of The Hunger Games and the Gospel and Everyday Justice: The Global Impact of Our Daily Choices

The World Food Programme has urged countries to step up and allocate to urgent hunger needs a fraction of what is proposed for financial rescue packages to address the global economic downturn.

Leading folding carton specialist Graphic Packaging International (GPI) has continued its support of global charity Action Against Hunger by donating printed dishes for the organisation's annual fundraising auction.

«The impact of one designated meat free day a week could make a meaningful contribution to the environment, fight global hunger and improve global health.

It included short presentations and proof points from global dairy leaders as well as from Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on the contribution of the dairy sector to the achievement of key Sustainable Development Goals such as ending poverty and hunger, and protecting the environment.

University of California Launches Program to Reduce World Hunger and Improve the Global Food System

A 6 month voluntary position with the UN became a 4 - year mission and, in December 2015, Simon and his team were awarded the prestigious United Nations Global Innovation Challenge Award, for the initiative with the greatest «disruptive potential» for far - reaching societal change (creating a tangible impact towards eradicating global hunger and saving millions of lives every Global Innovation Challenge Award, for the initiative with the greatest «disruptive potential» for far - reaching societal change (creating a tangible impact towards eradicating global hunger and saving millions of lives every global hunger and saving millions of lives every year.)

Currently, around 800 million people are living under hunger and undernourishment at the mean time more than 20 % of the available food in the global market is wasted.

«Bangladesh has emerged as a global model for combating hunger and obtained great success in becoming a country of food surplus from chronic food shortages.

Because the power relationships that exist in food chains are so central to global hunger — over two - thirds of those who are hungry today produce food — centralized control over key agricultural functions must be dismantled.79 In the Brazilian soybean market, 200,000 farmers attempt to sell to five main commodity traders.

Topics up for discussion this year include issues around genetically modified (GM) technologies in agriculture, the impact of regulation and planning schemes on small - scale farmers, hunger activism and the «right to food», and food sovereignty at a global level.

The Kraft Heinz Company Foundation is Growing A Better World through our mission of aligning our people, products and partnerships to help eliminate global hunger.

Extending the Table focuses on international recipes and also includes stories about hunger around the world; sort of like Simply in Season only with a global perspective.

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People from all parts of the UK contribute to the department's efforts in East Kilbride, including on the prime minister's initiative to combat global hunger and malnutrition.

According to the United Nations, the meat industry is «one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global», and the UN has concluded that a global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to saving the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst effects of climate change.

And our efforts to put a stop to global hunger will stop 25m children from being stunted as a result of malnutrition.

A global hunger crisis has grown so severe that a group of international relief agencies, including Connecticut - based Save the Children, are doing something they've never done before.

Taking action to vastly reduce global poverty and hunger must continue to be one of America's top foreign policy priorities,» Smith said.

«Certainly science diplomacy is essential for addressing the global challenges of hunger, energy, climate, and other areas detailed in the Sustainable Development Goals approved last year by the United Nations.»

Unfortunately, the mealybug is equally capable of traveling via a human vector — and it is now devastating the cassava (aka manioc or yucca) crop on some 200,000 hectares in Thailand, where some 60 percent of global exports (worth $ 1.5 billion) are grown, according to the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), a Colombia - based research nonprofit focused on reducing hunger and poverty via sustainable agriculture.

In a water management scenario the scientists call ambitious, global kilocalorie production could rise by 40 percent, while according to UN estimates roughly 80 percent would be needed to eradicate hunger by the middle of this century.

Crucially, the increase was seen in both scientific survey data and fisheries records — so it wasn't just an artifact of technological advances or a growing global hunger for calamari and sushi.

«Bangladesh has emerged as a global model for combating hunger and obtained great success in becoming a country of food surplus from chronic food shortages.

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.