Sentences with phrase «said on food security»

He added: «Everything Ooni has said on food security is in consonance with our believe and we believe that if we move forward, Nigeria will also move foward.

Not exact matches

According to The Washington Post, a TSA official said «there has been no nationwide policy change requiring people to remove food from their carry - ons to get through security.

«American people care about North Korea, what happens in Iran, food on the table, paying for college, border security,» she said.

Since organic farming currently accounts for such a small percentage of global agricultural production, Crowder said its effect on food security is not an immediate concern.

«The farmers» uprooting and continued resistance is justified, especially now in the light of new findings on Golden Rice which shows the weakness of the technology, the brunt of which will be shouldered by the farmers,» said Sharl Lopez, Executive Director of Philippine Network of Food Security Programmes (PNFSP).

November 2016 Focus on Nutrition Security Crawford Highlights The Myeik Archipelago [Tas] WA Student Award Launch [WA] NT Scholar Reflection [NT] Plant Pathology in Lao PDR [Qld] What Young People Say [ACT] Making the Most of It Crop Wild Relatives News RAID in Wagga Wagga [NSW] ACT Scholar Reflections [ACT] Leadership MC in Penang Food Composition Training [NSW] WA Sundowner Event [WA]

An 18 - year - old suicide bomber, Amina, who was intercepted by men of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Tuesday in Maiduguri, said Boko Haram gave her and her accomplice, the sum of N200 for the mission to buy food.

Ajimobi said the agricultural sector that has been neglected for long on what he described as «black gold» should be revamped to enhance food security, reduce importation of food items and engage able - bodied citizens who are presently either out rightly unemployed or under - employed.

Special Adviser to the Governor on Food Security, Mr. Ganiyu Okanlawon who signed the partnership agreement on behalf of the Lagos State Government said the agreement will ensure that residents get LAKE Rice not just from designated sales centres but also from the open market at the official government price.

In a speech read by Director of Policy Planning Monitoring and Evaluation at the Ministry of Information, Patricia Dovi Samson, on his behalf, in Bolgatanga at the «training of trainers» Agric Minister, Owusu Afriyie Akoto said the census when completed will provide reliable statistics for planning and monitoring food security and livelihood improvements.

On trade and investment, Buhari said his government's aim was to diversify the country's economy by focusing on agriculture and food security; power and infrastructurOn trade and investment, Buhari said his government's aim was to diversify the country's economy by focusing on agriculture and food security; power and infrastructuron agriculture and food security; power and infrastructure.

While emphasizing that the south west holds the future of food security in Nigeria, Governor Ambode said the available massive arable and fertile land had placed the region on a sound footing to use agriculture not only to grow the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the region but also to ensure food availability for the country.

Speaking on partnership on food security, the monarch said it was important for the South West States to explore partnership for the benefit of the people.

«I believe strongly that the test case of what we are trying to do about food security in Lagos State is just more or less like an elixir for what it should be across the western region and on that note, we want to say that we have already acquired land in Ogun and Oyo States but what is imperative for us to move forward now is that we would integrate all other Southwestern States into the food security mechanism of demand and supply for us to move forward,» he said.

«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».

John Scicchitano, program manager for the U.S. Agency for International Development's Famine Early Warning System (FEWS NET), said the system put out its first alert on the worsening food security conditions in August 2010.

Professor Bruce Fitt, professor of plant pathology at the University of Hertfordshire's School of Medical and Life Sciences, said: «There is considerable debate about the impact of climate change on crop production — and making sure that we have sufficient food to feed the ever - growing global population is key to our future food security.»

The researchers said improvements in food security depend on increasing research spending, especially over the next two decades.

«Astounding» levels of fertilization «Food security is a very big issue in China, so the Chinese government has been subsidizing fertilizer costs, and as a result farmers in China are using fertilizer rates that are astounding,» said Davidson, who is one of the authors of a recent U.N. Environment Programme report on global nutrient supply.

«People involved with these gardens are passionate about healthy eating, food security and helping people connect to where their food comes from,» says Ashley Chaifetz, lead author of a paper describing the work and its effect on school and community gardening practices.

«There is a clear opportunity for positive change, but the economic and regulatory incentives for such change are not yet in place,» said Naylor, the William Wrigley Professor in the School of Earth Sciences and director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford.

«So any changes and any impact on the crops locally can influence local as well as global food security,» Singh said.

«Ultimately, the extent to which large land deals can generate real development, secure access to natural resources for all, and improve food security will depend on their terms and conditions,» said Jose Graziano da Silva, director of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, at a 2012 Cornell University conferefood security will depend on their terms and conditions,» said Jose Graziano da Silva, director of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, at a 2012 Cornell University confereFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, at a 2012 Cornell University conference.

«The goal of our research was to explore the opportunities for marine fisheries reform in China that arise from their 13th Five - Year Plan and show how the best available science can be used in the design and implementation of fisheries management in China's coastal and ocean ecosystems,» said Cao, a Research Scholar with Stanford's Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

«Imagine working two or three jobs just to put food on the table, having no transportation other than buses to get to those jobs and no security that their job or the wages agreed upon will be available tomorrow,» says Jeanette Zoeckler, a public health project manager at OHCC.

«By adaptation, we mean a range of options based on existing technologies, such as switching varieties of a crop, installing irrigation or growing a different crop, one better suited to warmer temperatures,» said Lobell, the associate director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford.

«From a food security point of view, this is a tremendous accomplishment,» says FAO's chief veterinary officer Juan Lubroth in an interview on the organization's Web page.

Jim Thomas of the Ottawa - based ETC Group said the U.S. military's substantial funding of gene drive research «raises alarming question about this entire field,» and he called the technology «powerful and dangerous,» warning that it «could have disastrous impacts on peace, food security, and the environment.»

He went on to say, «Intensifying south - south collaboration will help meet the SDGs as well as the region's food security needs to ensure that we are improving farmers» livelihoods.

Food security touches so many other issues, said Proctor, that there are many ways to have an impact on this complex, global problem.

«Food insecurity and the hunger crisis was much more widespread and posed a serious threat to national security and the economy,» says Matt Sharp, senior advocate for the California Food Policy Advocates, a public policy organization focused on antipoverty initiatives.

«[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.

LIHUE — Plants could be the key to food security in America, according to a new study, and vegans on Kauai say The Garden Island is the perfect place to try out plant - based fare.

If we can ever get around to stop destabilizing large parts of this planet, then they won't seem so «threatening» — then, we can shrink the military back from the $ 600 billion monstrosity that it is now (as poster # 4 rightly said) and focus on human security at home and abroad: adequate shelter, food, health, education, and an energy system that won't fry the only livable planet we have.

«U.S. farmers are managing fertilizer more efficiently now,» said the co-author Rosamond Naylor, director of Stanford's Program on Food Security and the Environment.

Julian Ramirez - Villegas, lead author of the study at CGIAR's Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security said: «This study tells where, and crucially when, interventions need to be made to stop climate change destroying vital food supplies in AfrFood Security said: «This study tells where, and crucially when, interventions need to be made to stop climate change destroying vital food supplies in Afrfood supplies in Africa.

Finally, James Hansen's 2012 paper, «Public perception of climate change and the new climate dice», was important in highlighting the real - world impacts of climate change, says Prof Andy Challinor, expert in climate change impacts at the University of Leeds and lead author on the food security chapter in the working group two report.

Elisabeth Simelton, climate change scientist at the World Agroforestry Centre in Vietnam and project manager at the Consortium Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS), said the workshop provided an interesting platform where scientists and climate service providers from different countries were able to meet and exchange their experiences and ideas through interactive formats, so that everybody can take something new and useful back to their respective countries.

A young woman who lives nearby a factory site in Chon Buri says she is concerned about declining food security brought on by industrial pollution.

«Much research has looked at food security, but little has focused on the wider health effects of agricultural production,» Dr Springmann says.

«Climate change is a ticking time bomb for global food security,» Olivier De Schutter, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, said Wednesday in Copenhafood security,» Olivier De Schutter, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, said Wednesday in CopenhaFood, said Wednesday in Copenhagen.

«Mongolia is facing enormous challenges including growing pressure on food security, traditional nomadic herding and water supplies as a result of the impacts of climate change,» said UN Under - Secretary - General and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner.

Opening a UN food crisis summit in Rome, Jacques Diouf attacked the subsidies for corn ethanol during a wide - ranging critique of global policies on climate change and food security, which he said were slanted to favour the west.