Sentences with phrase «on food demand»

This paper examines the nature of the population challenge globally, the effect of population growth on food demand in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the potential benefits — in...

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THIS JUST IN: DoorDash, a San Francisco - based on - demand restaurant food delivery company, is raising $ 535 million in funding at a $ 1.4 billion valuation.

Higher demand for food is also putting pressure on water resources, says Angelo Katsoras, a geopolitical analyst at National Bank and co-author of the report.

If you decide to sign up as a driver for the on - demand food economy, you'll need a car and a clean driving record.

You have services like Blue Apron, Plated, and HelloFresh, and then you have a whole category of on - demand or plan - ahead meal - delivery and food delivery startups like Munchery, Caviar, Maple, Tapingo, Postmates, and DoorDash.

Farmers are earning huge profits on their wheat, soybeans, cotton and other crops; strong demand for (and relatively tight supplies of) grain, oilseeds and other key food inputs encouraged them to use large volumes of fertilizer (notably potash, phosphate and nitrogen) to boost their crop yields.

Consumers have doubled down on their demand for natural and less processed foods and beverages.

But food is a low margin business and on - demand delivery has proven to be a logistical nightmare.

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Kraft Heinz and Kellogg are the latest Big Food manufacturers to blame soft sales in the United States on an industrywide slowdown in demand for packaged foods.

With consumer demand for organic, non-GMO foods continuing to increase and outpace conventional food, Hirshberg speculated that Republicans trying to clamp down on the industry could actually undermine Trump's job creation efforts.

The on - demand delivery service — offering rides, food, beauticians and more — has jolted the economies of even famously gridlocked cities like Jakarta, where small businesses have seen their sales soar once they've registered on the company's platform.

• Virgin is the only U.S. airline with on - demand food ordering.

Many customers, especially millennials, have turned their backs on chain restaurants and are demanding more variety, exotic flavours and higher - quality food.

And Square has even gotten into the on - demand food - delivery business by buying Caviar.

CHICAGO, May 2 - Tater Tots - maker Kraft Heinz Co on Wednesday reported lower first - quarter sales, weighed down by weakening demand for processed foods in the United States.

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 manner.

An on - demand food delivery start - up bankrolled in part by the founder of Shake Shack has ended its New York City operations, just four months after its seed funding round.

Whereas earlier people had to physically go to the restaurant or, at the very least, pick up the phone and place an order, now they can outsource the labor by using the app to pay a middle man to deliver the food for them — on demand.

In the meantime, companies can focus on better predicting demand (to avoid producing more food than people will actually consume) and suppressing our appetite for red meat.

Food delivery will be exclusively on - demand, and goods and services will become available per our request by the click of a button.

Homegrocer.com AmazonFresh, the company's on - demand grocery - delivery service, launched in Seattle in 2007, but Amazon had its sights on the food business for nearly a decade prior.

Big food companies from Nestle to Taco Bell were axing artificial ingredients from their products left and right as consumers demanded «natural» foods, but would the changes affect the taste of the iconic blue box, a product that many Americans have grown up on?

Meituan, a $ 30 billion Beijing - based startup offering food delivery, travel booking and other on - demand services, has made a...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation)- Some of the world's biggest retailers and food companies including Kellogg Co, Walmart Inc, and Nestle backed a new initiative on Wednesday to improve global supply chains amid rising consumer demand for slave - free goods and services.

Food delivery and other on - demand startups are facing increased scrutiny for having built largely unprofitable businesses that rely on venture capital to survive.

LONDON, April 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation)- Some of the world's biggest retailers and food companies including Kellogg Co, Walmart Inc, and Nestle backed a new initiative on Wednesday to improve global supply chains amid rising consumer demand for slave - free goods and services.

San Francisco - based ride - hailing company Uber Technologies Inc. will soon launch its on - demand food delivery app, UberEATS, in...

CHICAGO, May 2 Tater Tots - maker Kraft Heinz Co on Wednesday reported lower first - quarter sales, weighed down by weakening demand for processed foods in the United States.

Earlier this year the failure of few food delivery startups led to a number of pundits and articles claiming that the on - demand economy was in trouble.

Uber will expand UberEats, its on - demand food delivery service, with a dedicated app and expanded delivery options across several cities in late March.

Either the economy would move to markets based on supply and demand, or it would face devastating shortages of food and other critical goods, with massive black markets and corruption.

A key component of Red is our on - demand food and beverage ordering system.

In large part, the quarter's strength was fueled by Dunkin Donut's U.S. business, where same - store sales rose 2.9 % on the back of demand for new hot and iced beverages and breakfast food, such as a flatbread with eggs and guacamole.

During the quarter, Lilly's animal health revenues fell 9 % year - over-year to $ 706.2 million, which the company blamed on irregular wholesale buying patterns in companion animal health and an overall drop in demand on the food - animal side of the business.

Will anyone be able to get food through an on - demand delivery app anytime soon?

According to CB Insights, on - demand, food - focused technology startup companies raised $ 5.7 billion in 2015, up 152 percent from 2014.

A strategic collaboration with Postmates, a leading on - demand delivery service, which will allow customers to order their food and beverage items via the Starbucks ® mobile app and receive on - demand delivery within defined areas.

Some of Uber's skyrocketing valuation rests in its potential to be a major player in on - demand food and retail delivery, an area in which start - ups like Postmates and Instacart are trying to compete.

On Monday, Mumbai - based Poncho Hospitality Pvt. Ltd, which owns and operates on - demand food delivery services firm Box8, raised $ 7.5 million (Rs 50 crore) in Series B funding from IIFL Seed Ventures Fund and existing investor MayfielOn Monday, Mumbai - based Poncho Hospitality Pvt. Ltd, which owns and operates on - demand food delivery services firm Box8, raised $ 7.5 million (Rs 50 crore) in Series B funding from IIFL Seed Ventures Fund and existing investor Mayfielon - demand food delivery services firm Box8, raised $ 7.5 million (Rs 50 crore) in Series B funding from IIFL Seed Ventures Fund and existing investor Mayfield.

Soybeans gained on speculation that government measures to revive economies may bolster demand for food, animal feed and biofuels.

GFI argues that though it is true that plant - based products already exist, there may be significant room for the improvement of plant - based technology, and improving plant - based technology may yield shorter - term traction, i.e., greater market share, than the cultured foods.119 Recently developed plant - based products already seem to seem to represent improvements from past products; for example, the Impossible Burger, released in 2016, has received favorable reviews from vegans and omnivores alike.120 GFI's fostering and promotion of the development of similarly popular plant - based products could cause a significant reduction in the demand for animal products, particularly if they focus on plant - based chicken and fish and if they convince institutions to serve the plant - based products rather than animal products.121

Because of what Sinek characterizes as «faulty parenting,» corporations are faced with millennials who are «hard - wired» to get much of what they want right away, from food deliveries to entertainment on demand.

Among mainland Chinese shares, food - related companies gained on expectations of higher demand ahead of upcoming festivals, analysts said.

Ours is indeed a consumeristic culture, the kind that too often turns people into commodities, and I believe Christians can speak into that culture in a unique, life - giving way — not only as it concerns sex - on - demand, but also as it concerns food - on - demand, celebrity - on - demand, stuff - on - demand, cheap - goods - on - demand, pornography - on - demand, entertainment - on - demand, comfort - on - demand, distraction - on - demand, information - on - demand, power - on - demand, energy - on - demand, and all those habits that tend to thrive at the expense of the dignity and value of our fellow human beings or our planet.

Taboos on eating fat and blood, (Leviticus 3:17) rules concerning clean and unclean foods, detailed directions concerning the dress of the officiating priests, insistence on ceremonial exactness in sacrifice these and similar legalisms have as part of their background and explanation the sense of sanctity and inviolability in things divine, demanding punctilious care to make human relationships with them safe and profitable.

It's all happening — what next — prayer times set aside for Muslim students during school, wash basins like at University of Minnesota so they don't try to wash their feet before praying in the school basins for washing hands, demands for special cafeteria food, demands that girls cover their heads, then faces, then disappear from school altogether, wake up New York and hold on to our great city before they knock down the rest of the buildings!

The need to provide food, water, minerals, fuel and other necessities for such increasing numbers of people will place pressures on virtually all areas of the earth and demand the most careful planning and management of natural resources.

The everyday world is ordered by lack, of food, shelter, sex, and so on; it is a world of demand and pressure and need.

Trussell Trust says foodbanks have concerns about the extra pressure the increased demand puts on food donation stocks and volunteers» time and emotional welfare.