Sentences with phrase «scarce water and food»

Yes, conflict over scarce water and food has been around for a couple of decades.

Not exact matches

In the future, the world will be dangerously overpopulated and basic necessities like food and water will be scarce.

FBI Agent Fred Stephens explains that food and water will become scarcer as the population grows, increasing the cost.

The National Association of Retail Grocers of Australia recently highlighted that Australia's food and grocery industry is «at a crossroads» as population - driven demand grows faster than food production, pointing to challenges ahead for sustainable development.1 Water is one of the most significant and increasingly scarce resources that producers need to meet this demand.

When access to food supplies and safe water are scarce the most vulnerable, newborns, infants, and young children are at greatest risk.

Breastfeeding is especially important where diarrhoeal and other infections are common, water supplies are unsafe and supplementary foods suitable for small children are both costly and scarce.

According to the report, with little arable land and scarce water supplies, the region is one of the top food importers in the world.

The initiative allowed stakeholders at all levels of the food supply chain to exchange ideas and increase awareness of water as a scarce resource12.

Food, clean water, and sanitation are scarce or nonexistent, and these conditions create a perfect breeding ground for disease.

This leads to greater chances of food crises, particularly in nations where land and water resources are scarce and therefore food security strongly relies on imports.

Poverty, especially in certain regions of Africa where food and water were scarce, was a hot topic in the news.

Food sources are bizarrely scarce, you don't gain the ability to clean water until hours into the game (which is quiet and easy to miss), and information on how things work and what you should expect is never as clear or accessible as it should be.

Food and water are scarce.

Environmentally, tourism can deplete resources that are already scarce, such as food and water.

Max will need food and water, and both resources will be scarce out in the desert.

As ground zero of the attacks, Manhattan is overrun with sick people, but, even worse, basic necessities such as food and water are becoming scarce, causing survivors to riot and commit atrocities.

These games set up a hostile environment where you start with nothing, they make the human players more of a threat than the creatures, they normally give you guns, and they make food and water scarce resources.

It takes a lot of water to raise food for grazers and water for the grazers themselves, and easily accessible fresh water is rapidly becoming scarce worldwide.

Making better use of a scarce and / or expensive resource is a laudable aim, whatever the resource... energy... food... water etc etc..

In rural parts of Liberia, communities complain that their food is now scarcer than it was before the palm oil companies moved in, and that fertilizers have polluted their fishing ponds and drinking water.»

We can't all become survivalists; surviving into the next century (moot for me as a septuagenerian) will likely call on all our cooperative skills, or else what we are likely to get in a world fighting over scarce food and water, never mind fossil fuels, is neofeudalism.

It can trigger droughts, floods and heavy rainfalls; increase sea levels; make food and water scarce; and spread insect - borne diseases.

We did a series on Planet Green where we looked at why those basic things that we take for granted, like water, food and fuel are getting expensive and scarce, all at once.

Touting the apparent success of the project, World Bank president Robert Zoellick said, «The return of the North Aral Sea shows that man - made disasters can be at least partly reversed, and that food production depends on the sound management of scarce water resources and the environment.»

Our early twenty - first century civilization is showing signs of stress as individual countries compete not only for scarce food but also for the land and water to produce it.