Sentences with phrase «recent food crises»
Christian agencies have joined in the response to the recent food crisis in East Africa and Yemen.
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Foreign brands often carry a better reputation than their Chinese equivalents; recent crises involving toxic chemicals in Chinese - made food and cosmetics have fueled that sentiment.
The Bush administration had asked in May that part of a recent aid package to address the food crisis go to agricultural development, including the planting of GMOs.
Water is not immune to other external and immediate challenges, such as the recent economic and financial crisis and the volatility in the price of food and other commodities, and their impact on water is complex and needs to be better understood.
It is estimated, for example, that none of the [Millennium Development Goals] targets will be met in sub-Saharan Africa if current trends continue, and this is before account is taken of the real effects of the recent crises in food and energy, the rapid increase in impacts of climate change, and the major implications of a global economic slowdown.»
The recent dramatic losses of thousands of honey bee colonies due to colony collapse disorder (CCD) and other causes [6], [7] has not only created great concerns in the scientific and agricultural community but has also highlighted the ever increasing risk of future crises in the global food supply due to our sole dependence on single pollinator species [8].
Recent food riots from Egypt to Haiti highlight the burgeoning crisis of people unable to afford the cost of a simple bowl of rice.
Her recent book, The Big Ratchet: How Humans Thrive in Face of Natural Disasters (Basic, 2014), describes how humans repeatedly face, then overcome crises of food production.
Part of this recent rise can be attributed to higher food prices and the global economic crisis.
:: Reuters Food crisis being felt around world: Sharply rising prices have triggered food riots in recent weeks in Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan, Guinea, Mauritania and Yemen, and aid agencies around the world worry they may be unable to feed the poorest of the pFood crisis being felt around world: Sharply rising prices have triggered food riots in recent weeks in Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan, Guinea, Mauritania and Yemen, and aid agencies around the world worry they may be unable to feed the poorest of the pfood riots in recent weeks in Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan, Guinea, Mauritania and Yemen, and aid agencies around the world worry they may be unable to feed the poorest of the poor.