Even as rain has come to the Horn of Africa, food
scarcity continues in other parts of vulnerable continent: the UN recently warned that a food crisis could occur in South Sudan and Niger going into 2012.
As illustrated by recent headlines of South Africa's countdown to «Day Zero,» or the day the water taps are expected to run dry, water
scarcity continues to be a growing problem across the globe.
As fuel
scarcity continues across the country, report says the situation can not be resolved this week, as the current shortage may remain like this till next week.
While the kinds of things people want do change as goods become more abundant, the fundamental economic fact of
scarcity continues to operate.
Whatever partial rebuilding occurred during the interwar period, however, was more than reversed by wars during much of the 1930s and the first half of the 1940s, so that global capital
scarcity continued for at least another decade or two.
Not exact matches
Although these business models have been effective, the
continued growth of the MPL marketplace faces challenges in
scarcity and volatility of funding, the uncertain regulatory environment, a normalizing interest - rate environment, and open questions about the business model and credit scoring methodologies.
Growth in most of the eurozone has remained tepid and reliant on
continued central bank stimulus, though the European Central Bank's (ECB's) bond - purchasing program has been hampered by a
scarcity of eligible bonds, as issuance from member governments is restricted by their austerity - driven policies.
What did the revolts brought to the people in those countries any thing other than continuos unending revolts and demonstrations
scarcity of essential commodities and products adding to the sky high prices... While other essential needs such as electricity power supply, water, gas, diesel, petrol are being used as a pressure tool by the opposition or the ruling party to keep people mad on the streets rather than going home seeing to their daily living making and minding their own businesses... but what business will
continue with such chaos and disorder...?
For young adults fortunate enough to find a suitable mate, the
scarcity of work and
continuing inflation make the establishment of a new household increasingly difficult.
My overall reflection as a researcher is that the
scarcity of natural resources will undoubtedly
continue to challenge the primary vessel of food production i.e., agriculture.
For a nation that was waiting for a messianic vision and direction from his government, President Buhari does not have the privilege or the right to remain silent on issues such as the current fuel
scarcity (save for a one - page press release signed by him), the Mainagate, the NNPC $ 25bn contract scandal, the
continued Fulani herdsmen attack on communities, despite their being listed as the fourth deadliest terror group in the Global Terrorism Index, and the full report of the Presidential Panel of Inquiry set up to investigate a former Secretary to Government of the Federation, Lawal Babachir, and a former DG, National Intelligence Agency, Ayo Oke, because beyond election, the validation of the legitimacy of any government through good governance rests on this core element which is communicating.
Study coauthor Peter McIntyre, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin, notes that wealthier nations can manage the problem with complex sanitation facilities and other engineering schemes while the underlying issues — water
scarcity and pollution —
continue to intensify.
That means, at least with the precision the scientists were able to achieve, there doesn't appear to be some asymmetric quirk of the strong force that can account for the
continuing existence of matter in the universe and the
scarcity of antimatter today.
Given the current state of the capital markets and the
scarcity of funding, I think the smaller juniors will
continue to play in the conventional arena.
As for now, as deforestation
continues, pollution of the air, the land, and the waters
continues, the consumption of oil, gas, and coal is the order of the day, and the poor masses of this world are suffering from stresses of food and water
scarcity, political conflict and bloody war, well, it is not easy to believe that our musicians are going to start singing any songs of true enlightenment, as concerns both the social and natural environments of ours.
Technocracy states that this method of operating the social mechanism of the North American Continent is now mandatory because we have passed from a state of actual
scarcity into the present status of potential abundance in which we are now held to an artificial
scarcity forced upon us in order to
continue a Price System which can distribute goods only by means of a medium of exchange.
The Government of India has long promoted a Participatory Watershed Development (PWD) approach to deal with this
scarcity, focusing on technical and social interventions to restore barren landscapes, [
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My current work is on water - supply and food supply
scarcity in the southwestern US and in Mexico due to the ongoing effects of record drought, record heat, declining annual runoff, and declining potable groundwater reserves, which together are threatening to render numerous large urban areas unable to support
continuing growth, with some unable to
continue to support current populations, such as those in Chihuahua, El Paso and Juarez, Las Vegas, Lubbock, Monterrey, Palm Springs, Phoenix, Tuscon, Yuma, among others.
Also, while I think that science and technological progress and capitalism have done a pretty good job of avoiding permanent resource
scarcity so far (eg, the Simon / Ehrlich bet), I don't think we should assume that they can do so forever, or that economic growth will
continue at the current several percent rate forever - they might, betting against human ingenuity is always dangerous, but a good, robust strategy would take into account the possibility that there might be limits to growth even if it is difficult to pinpoint any one given constraint.
One study has calculated that if present trends
continue, 1.8 billion people will be living in absolute water
scarcity by 2025, while a full two thirds of the human population will face water stress.With agriculture currently accounting for some 72 % of human water use it seems likely that such steps to reduce water consumption will become a desirable provision of vertical farming in the future.
Despite a
scarcity of water, generations of farmers have
continued to farm, so the photos are a contrast between nature's untamed forces and man's attempts to harness it.
The company will
continue to support both the Rivulis and Eurodrip brands, and will remain strongly committed to its mission of providing continuous innovation, and strong service to help growers to optimise yields sustainably and economically while addressing water and land
scarcity.
This, coupled with the fact that there is a
scarcity of paid positions in social justice, and that tuition fees and student debt
continue to hike, students who dreamt of building social justice careers are consistently disempowered and stripped of their happiness as they go through their law school journey.
Demand for GPUs from the Artificial Intelligence community will be cranking up the
scarcity as researchers
continue to make huge strides in the field.
As Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies
continue to gain adoption and influence, potentially disrupting trillions of dollars in profits across a wide range of industries built on artificial
scarcity, middlemen, and trusted third parties, it's important for the communities supporting these networks to be aware and vigilant in defending against attackers employing the methodologies mentioned in this report.
Most experts expect bitcoin's price will
continue to rise, correlating with their
scarcity and popularity.
In 2015, industry pundits were predicting that the
scarcity of real estate listings in Toronto would
continue into 2016.
While prices may cool, the
scarcity of land on which to build detached houses will
continue to fuel the condo building boom, said Peter Norman, chief economist at real estate consulting firm Altus Group.
«The result is that price gains
continue to exceed income growth through
scarcity,» said Rob Dietz, chief economist at the National Association of Homebuilders.