Sentences with phrase «on world food security»

Finally it presents the report of a regional expert group of concerned partners which was formed to consider and regionalize the commitments made by the Rome Declaration of the High - Level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate change and Bioenergy, 3 — 5 June 2008.
The Committee on World Food Security: A Visual Introduction to one of the intergovernmental forums that is at the core of food politics: the Commitee on World Food Security (CFS).
Recent reports by the National Research Council (NRC), the New England Complex Systems Institute (CSI), the UN Committee on World Food Security (CWFS), and Iowa State University (ISU) all acknowledge that biofuel policies put upward pressure on food and feed prices.
This year we will have our second delegation to the Committee on World Food Security, dealing with, among other things, the 10 - year review of the Right to Food Guidelines, Food Loss and Waste, Fisheries and Aquaculture, and responsible agricultural investment.
ROME, Italy — Today Civil Society movements blamed Governments negotiating on biofuels at the Committee on World Food security for defending the interests of the biofuels industry rather than the interests of people pushed into hunger by biofuel policies.
Committee on World Food Security High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition Water and food security: zero - draft consultation paper Deadline 7th November CLICK HERE It will be important to have strong civil society input to this consultation so...
The Paper is a product of a broad civil society consultation process, facilitated by the Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition, for the 41st Session of the UN Committee on World Food Security.
Our voice was also heard at the UN's Committee on world Food Security in Rome as Australasian delegate.
The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT) were endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) on 11 May 2012.
On 17 — 21 October, the annual meeting of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) took place at FAO Headquarters in Rome.During the first day, FAO launched its flagship publication on The State of Food and Agriculture, which focused on climate change this year.

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One of the questions on everyone's mind is whether genetically modified food will help the world's food security issue.
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Through its conclusions and recommendations the Forum will contribute to the debate and outcome of the World Summit on Food Security scheduled at FAO headquarters on November 16 - 18, to be attended by Heads of State and Government from FAO's 192 Members.
And on the world - food security front, ARS» Stuttgart center is closing in on genes that regulate rice's uptake and storage of iron, thiamine and other important vitamins and minerals — a pursuit that could bolster the nutritional value of this cereal grain crop as a staple food for roughly half the world's population.
* A side event under the title «Bio-sequestration vs. geo - sequestration (CCS)- Organic solutions to Climate Change and Food security» was held jointly with the World Future Council on Thursday, December 17.
LOS BAÑOS, PHILIPPINES — The world's premier research organization focused on rice makes a commitment to keep working toward food and nutrition security for at least the next few generations.
In conclusion, the conference was very informative and I was able to gain more knowledge on food security issues in some developing countries and the role that international agriculture research plays in developing a food secure world.
International conference on Food and Agricultural economics April 27 - 28 2018, Alanya, Turkey; International congress on Food Technology October 10 - 12 2018, Cappadocia, Turkey; World Biotechnology Congress July 16 - 17, 2018, Berlin, Germany; International Conference on Food Quality, Safety and Security October 25 - 26 2018, Colombo, SriLanka; World Food and Agriculture Conference, June 15 - 27, 2018, Stockholm, Sweden; World Food Science and Technology Conference June 11 - 12, 2018, Greece, Europe; World Congress on Food Chemistry and Microbiology September 03 - 04, 2018, Dubai, UAE.
With our industrial process technologies and solutions, we contribute significantly to feeding the world's population, setting the focus on food security and safety.
Food - security experts from all over the world will converge on Belfast from 28 - 31 May 2018 for a major Summit on how to feed a growing global population — amid massive challenges such as climate change, Brexit, labyrinthine food - supply chains and food fraud on a global scFood - security experts from all over the world will converge on Belfast from 28 - 31 May 2018 for a major Summit on how to feed a growing global population — amid massive challenges such as climate change, Brexit, labyrinthine food - supply chains and food fraud on a global scfood - supply chains and food fraud on a global scfood fraud on a global scale.
He has been a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Food Security since 2010.
Many organizations around the world are tackling issues related to food waste and food security — the next critical step is ensuring that we work together on these goals.»
Honourable guests from all around the world present at to moment to attend the three - day International Conference on Food Science and Technology focusing on Emerging Food Processing Technologies towards Global Food Security.
«Higher temperatures and changes in precipitation result in pressure on yields from important crops in much of the world,» says IFPRI agricultural economist Gerald Nelson, an author of the report, «Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security: Impacts and Costs of Adaptation to 2050».
So you've already begun to set up a kind of haves and have - nots, an imbalance where the poorest people in the world who vitally depend on agriculture as a development tool, in addition to providing food security, are now being even further disadvantaged.
Your agency funds projects around the world to promote health, improve food security, and so on.
The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research's (CGIAR) Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security identified world regions that will bear the brunt of climate change's consequences on food availabilFood Security identified world regions that will bear the brunt of climate change's consequences on food availabilfood availability.
EL BATAN, Mexico (January 25, 2017)-- Scientists from two of the world's leading agricultural research institutes will embark on joint research to boost global food security, mitigate environmental damage from farming, and help to reduce food grain imports by developing countries.
It coordinates some of the world's most exciting research projects, tackling major issues such as climate change, food security, environmental influences on human health, the genetic make - up of life on earth, and much more.
LOS BAÑOS, PHILIPPINES — The world's premier research organization focused on rice makes a commitment to keep working toward food and nutrition security for at least the next few generations.
The resources exist and yet on a daily basis all over the world women, men and children are denied access to their fundamental human right to education, health, water, sanitation and food security.
For that reason, the coursework will focus on the promotion of healthier homes, food security, challenges of poverty, security, access to world knowledge, and sustainable local change.
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«[Global capital] is looking for investments, and one of the best investments is the agribusiness sector, which is based on food security across the world, first and foremost in Africa and Asia,» he said.
The theme of this year's World Veterinary Day on April 28 is the role of the veterinary profession in sustainable development to improve livelihoods, food security and safety.
Her volunteering journey began at a young age for cats at the local animal shelter, and has brought her across the world working on international issues such as education and food security.
New commissions include a major multi-disciplinary project on St Petersburg's Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry — one of the world's largest seed banks — and the future of food security and evolution by Callum Cooper.
Then, with their freely - chosen support, the sky is the limit: reallocate sections of the defense budget to selective nation - building; change agricultural policy to favor sustainable home - grown food where possible in the interests of health and national security; create programs that encourage Americans to help with sanitation, agriculture and birth control in developing countries; slice away the parts of government that get in the way (thereby freeing up the budget); protect citizen and consumer's rights; strictly regulate pollution; shut down destabilizing financial schemes, and eventually earn enough respect in the world that we're not the only ones on the bandwagon.
What if we were sitting on the answers to the world's most pressing challenges, from food security to water scarcity and everything in between?
That determination was made by consulting firm Maplecroft in their Food Security Index 2010 based on 12 criteria developed in cooperation with the World Food Programme: Nutritional and health status of populations, grain production and imports, GDP per capita, natural disasters, conflict, and effectiveness of government, and more.
As Lester Brown writes in Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, mountain glaciers are melting in the Andes, the Rocky Mountains, the Alps, and elsewhere, but nowhere does this melting threaten world food security more than in the Himalayas and on the Tibet - Qinghai Plateau, where the melting of glaciers could soon deprive the major rivers of India and China of the ice melt needed to sustain them during the dry season.
This flurry of research and review is of course timed to help world leaders at Davos concentrate on the longer - term problems of climate change, environmental degradation, and food security, in addition to immediate problems of economic stagnation, poverty, conflict and so on.
He's invited to speak around the world on strategies that combine food security, community empowerment, environmental improvement, social equity and job creation.
Socio (s): CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, International Livestock Research Institute, World Agroforestry Centre, The University of Vermont, European Commission, Earth System Science Partnership, Canadian International Development Agency, Danish International Development Agency
This brochure presents World Food Day on 16 October 2016, which promotes worldwide awareness and action for those who suffer from hunger and for the need to ensure food security and nutritious diets for Food Day on 16 October 2016, which promotes worldwide awareness and action for those who suffer from hunger and for the need to ensure food security and nutritious diets for food security and nutritious diets for all.
Climate change increases stress on water, food and energy security within the US and around the world which creates hard - to - predict security risks.
Socio (s): CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, The University of Vermont, World Agroforestry Centre, Earth System Science Partnership, Climate Focus
This analytical report reviews the importance of fisheries and aquaculture, with particular reference to poor people in the developing world, and the likely impact of climate change on these activities and on food security.
Climate change will have a profound impact on human health by placing new pressures on food and water security in nations around the world.
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