Sentences with phrase «problem for food security»

Changes in crop yields from year to year are clearly a problem for food security.

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(He also actively pursues issues relating to immigration policies, food security, safe water for First Nations, species at risk, the plastics problem, healthy living — the list goes on.)

Reducing food loss in supermarkets is an important issue in terms of the efforts to increase profit in supermarkets, to increase income for small farmers supplying to supermarkets, and to improve food security in urban areas, as well as avoid environmental problems caused by food waste.

Feeding America also supports programs that improve food security among the people we serve; educates the public about the problem of hunger; and advocates for legislation that protects people from going hungry.

«To ensure food security for every child, woman and man, we must intensify food production while at the same time address the problems of distribution, and end shocking levels of food spoilage and loss.

That, unfortunately, is one example of a rising problem: Steep food costs have tattered the U.S. food - security safety net, even as demand for...

«Many food security problems revolve around maintaining pollinator diversity to provide services to crops or wild plants and designing landscapes to provide living conditions for pollinators,» Biesmeijer says.

We can view these advancements as opportunities for our global society to tackle complex problems, such as energy demands, food and water security, and disease.

«Almost a third of the households were food insecure, and more than 16 percent had very low food security, meaning they were skipping meals, at risk for experiencing hunger and probably missing work and school and suffering health problems as a result,» said study lead author Michelle Kaiser, an assistant professor of social work at Ohio State.

Professor Jaimie Dick, from the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen's School of Biological Sciences, is calling on the EU to commit long - term investment in a European - wide strategy to manage the problem.

«A broad range of efforts are needed to move towards sustainable food security for all,» Aschemann - Witzel writes, «and each individual consumer contributes both to the problem and the solution.»

Aristotle's famous solution to this problem was to optimize human fulfillment by balancing the satisfactions of all the human appetites — from food and sex to the disinterested contemplation of truth — keeping society's need for civility and security in mind as well.

Impacts: Soil degradation, erosion and deforestation resulting from climate change are huge problems for food and water security, as well as human health and shelter.

Leaving the work under the Paris Agreement that is already weak enough for the year 2020 leaves us with four years of inaction that will have irreversible consequences such as the disappearance of small island nations, threatening of agriculture and food security, displacement of frontline communities, health problems like never before.

And they have considered climate change as a problem of food security, with implications for human health, and as threat to vital sources of protein.