Sentences with phrase «produced food amount»

External costs of conventionally produced food amount to 700 billion USD for environmental degradation and to 900 billion USD for social costs.

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«On average, the amount of water required to produce one liter of biofuel is the same amount that's required to produce food for a person for one day,» he said, adding that the problem with first generation biofuels was that they were competing with food production systems in terms of water and land.

In 2008, subsidies to produce corn ethanol reduced the amount of corn available for food.

A third of all food produced in the world goes to waste and there is a huge amount of carbon and greenhouse gas emissions that goes into producing and transporting that food.

Producing and marketing a primary commodity, such as milk, carries an enormous amount of responsibility, even more so when producing for and distributing to a developing country that lacks the proper information and finances for making healthy food and drinkProducing and marketing a primary commodity, such as milk, carries an enormous amount of responsibility, even more so when producing for and distributing to a developing country that lacks the proper information and finances for making healthy food and drinkproducing for and distributing to a developing country that lacks the proper information and finances for making healthy food and drink choices.

No, it's not because I have old expired food that I refuse to throw out (though certainly I've been known to discover a few forgotten wrinkled apples buried in the back what need to be composted now and then), but rather, it's because I've packed it full various produce, not to mention the huge amount of eggs and butter I have stocked there for my recipe development.

With the amount of high - quality food that Carmine's and Virgil's produce, vendors who can deliver quality in quantity are crucial.

«We have a higher amount of real wood than a typical grocery would because we're more focused on produce and fresh food,» Hagen asserts.

Some amounts of acid - producing foods are allowed — even encouraged, if they make it easier to stick to your diet.

We have to make sure that packaging, especially for example for produce, is sufficient to get it there safely; and if it's not... it not only is contributing to the lack of food to some regions, but it's also contributing to a huge amount of scrap or waste in our system.»

An allergic reaction can be produced by a tiny amount of a food ingredient that a person is sensitive to (for example a teaspoon of milk powder, a fragment of peanut or just one or two sesame seeds).

«Rice is the staple food for millions across the developing world, so finding a way to double the amount each plant produces would help to feed many more of the very poorest.

However, critics argue that organic agriculture may have lower yields and would therefore need more land to produce the same amount of food as conventional farms, resulting in more widespread deforestation and biodiversity loss, and thus undermining the environmental benefits of organic practices5.

There's a huge amount of food wastage in the supply chain, from farm to fork, as they say with 88 million tonnes of food waste produced in the EU every year.

With one billion currently malnourished people in the world and a third of food produced never reaching our plate, halving the amount of food lost from paddock to fork has the potential to meet our global demands.

Small amounts occur naturally in such fruits as pears, melons, and grapes, but virtually all of the erythritol used as a food additive is produced by fermenting glucose with various yeasts.

Another step in agricultural production is sorting: By improving fresh produce sorting with available technologies the food industry could improve its footprint significantly:» -LRB-...) By increasing yields by just 1 % with better sorting technology, it is possible to increase the final amount of this type of produce in the United States by 11 million tons -LRB-...).»

Partly because I was pressed for time and in a rush to photograph them (and had to use the super harsh, early morning light), but mostly because there's been a disproportionate amount of brown - colored food in this space (these, those, and this)(and now you're looking at more) and it's summer and the farmers market is bursting with vibrant produce and I'm just over here whipping up shit with peanut butter and chocolate.

Right and we don't typically design foods to be healthier for us we design them to be produce more yield in the same amount of space.

Sun exposure helps your body produce vitamin D, but many women don't get enough sun (especially in the winter and with the use of sunscreen) to make an adequate amount, and experts think the small amount found in food might not be enough.

But SNA is headed down the wrong path in trying to cut the amount of healthy whole grains and produce in school meals, or trying to weaken proposed regulations on competitive snack foods.

«Although the mother herself probably had a very limited food intake during this time, a lactating woman is able to produce an adequate milk supply based on the demand for the milk for a considerable amount of time even under the most extreme circumstances,» Geraghty says.

With the GoFreshBaby reusable food pouch parents can take advantage of the convenience food pouches offer while reducing the amount of waste they produce.

With more and more conscientious parents choosing to prepare baby food purees at home, children are now more likely to get adequate amounts of nutrition that commercially produced food just can not replicate.

Besides the obvious reasons of non-compliance with WHO and child labor, our family does not like supporting a giant business who produces massive amounts of waste and commonly uses unhealthy food products like corn syrup and preservatives.

The amount of gluten - containing flour in home - prepared foods was calculated on the basis of standard Swedish recipes, and the amount in industrially produced foods was obtained from the manufacturers.

When I pushed back and pointed out that 1) some women experience supply issues if they attempt to restrict calories enough to allow weight loss, even when they really * want * to lose weight and 2) not everyone is, in fact, overweight, and those women will indeed need to eat more to produce enough milk without causing nutritional problems for themselves they instead argued that it's such a small amount of extra food that it's inconsequential.

So, to produce the same amount of food, we would need to use more of the land that currently supports biodiversity.

Ghana has the potential to increase the amount of food the country produces by up to five folds through the introduction of irrigation facilities on farms.

Two other bills seek to increase the amount of food produced within the five boroughs by creating more space to grow food.

POWELL: Meaning that higher temperatures will make it difficult for us to produce the amount of food we need?

These insects breed quickly, require little space, food or water, and produce only minute amounts of excrement, which could serve as fertilizer for onboard plants.

528 Minimum amount of water, in gallons, required to produce a day's worth of food for one person, according to United Nations estimates.

If you recently bought a pair of jeans or ate a burger for dinner, followed by a nice cup of coffee, you probably didn't link the touch of cotton or the aroma of the food to the amount of water that was used to produce them

This enterprise led him deep into the relationship between economics, physiology, and longevity, where he analyzed variables such as the amount of food consumed by the average slave (or freeman) measured against the amount of work he produced.

Each harvest that we've had, first in Kenya, then in Ethiopia, and recently in Malawi and in Rwanda, has tripled or quadrupled the amount of food produced.

The EPA normally establishes so - called tolerances — the amount of pesticide residue in produce, grains, and processed food that is considered tolerable — in a three - step process based on animal tests paid for and conducted by the manufacturers themselves.

They determined the amount of water transferred in kilograms by multiplying the traded volume of a specific food item by the water used to produce a unit of this item (the item's «virtual water content») in the exporting province.

The researchers explained that beef cattle are the most GHG - intensive food to produce and that the production of legumes (beans, peas, etc.) results in one - fortieth the amount of GHGs as beef.

These could be cultivated in Italy and other countries to help produce safer food with reduced fungal contamination and reduced amounts of dangerous toxins in food stocks.»

The goal of the research is to alter oilseeds to produce large amounts of modified oil that can be used as improved biofuels or even industrial and food - related applications.

Imagine 30 % of all of the food produced in the U.S. each year, a total amount of food worth $ 48.3 billion.

Reducing waste where food is sold, prepared, eaten and, in many cases, partly tossed in the trash as uneaten leftovers or unsellable produce, reduces the amount of land, fertilizer and equipment needed to feed everybody.

«The biggest implication of our research is that by ramping up the natural nitrogen allocation process we can increase the amount of food we produce without contributing to further agricultural pollution,» Tegeder said.

First, natural vitamin D, which is found in small amounts in a few foods and produced in the body by exposure to sunlight, degrades quickly, while synthetic versions of vitamin D are less susceptible to breakdown.

The European Union's highest court on Tuesday ruled that honey which contains trace amounts of pollen from genetically modified (GM) corn must be labelled as GM produce and undergo full safety authorisation before it can be sold as food.

And when we eat foods that are rich in cholesterol the liver simply starts producing less of it, so the total amount of cholesterol in the body changes very little, depending on our diet.

[5] Our body produces vitamin D when exposed to sunlight, a much higher amount than you can get from eating foods.

Although numerous different elements may impact the amount of this chemical, such as genetics, hormones, drugs and alcohol, a few studies have shown that dopamine in the brain is produced under the influence of some foods — actually it is produced by components of these foods.

Animal products generally use larger amounts of resources and energy than various other plant - based foods, plus produce higher carbon emissions.