Sentences with phrase «scarcity of food in»

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This farm addresses that potential disaster and ensures the possibility of food production in times of scarcity with a system of 27 dams, soaks, tanks and high capacity bores.

If petroleum were priced in terms of its total cost in pollution and with its scarcity in view, food prices would soar.

In an article posted on The Atlantic's website last week, Gary Paul Nabhan, co-author of Chasing Chiles: Hot Spots Along the Pepper Trail, addressed the relationship between farming in the Southwest and climate change — both food production and food security have been cast into question with the growing scarcity of water and unpredictable growing seasons and weather patterns, such as droughIn an article posted on The Atlantic's website last week, Gary Paul Nabhan, co-author of Chasing Chiles: Hot Spots Along the Pepper Trail, addressed the relationship between farming in the Southwest and climate change — both food production and food security have been cast into question with the growing scarcity of water and unpredictable growing seasons and weather patterns, such as droughin the Southwest and climate change — both food production and food security have been cast into question with the growing scarcity of water and unpredictable growing seasons and weather patterns, such as drought.

Thus, the likelihood of achieving adequate nutrition may be lower in this group, even when concerns about food scarcity in the US are minimal.»

You can also use them to explain to your child how bears hibernate in the winter because of food scarcity.

«As for March, there was an increase in yearly prices due to inflation — a 582.9 percent increase for food, while the level of scarcity of basic products remains at 41.37 percent.»

Because of the necessity of removing the corpses of ruminants from farming, «vultures have been faced with a scarcity of food, which has caused them to make changes in their diet by consuming a higher quantity of hunting species,» the researcher explains.

The impact of global warming has been linked to the severity of droughts, water scarcity, and food shortages in war - torn Syria.

The study authors suggest that this positive feedback loop may have served an important role in evolution, by prompting animals to fatten up when they stumbled across calorically dense food in times of food scarcity.

The impact of global warming has been linked to the severity of droughts, water scarcity, and food shortages in war - torn Syria, but now an internationally recognized expert on water resources has identified climate change as a factor contributing to political turmoil in the region.

«I don't believe that we've reached the level of scarcity in our food supply, at least in Western societies, where people would be willing to incorporate insects at any level in their diet,» White says.

«The scarcity of field measurements presents a major roadblock in creating high resolution global maps of plant traits,» said Ethan Butler, co-lead author and postdoctoral associate in the Department of Forest Resources at UMN's College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS).

Estimates show that by 2050 the world population will be more than 9 billion and this growth will occur primarily in areas of the world already experiencing food scarcity and water availability issues, as Steven Leath, plant scientist and president of Iowa State University, noted in a lecture last year at AAAS.

From that perspective, it becomes clear that humans are prone to obesity because our bodies evolved in an environment of scarcity, where consuming as much high - energy food as possible was a useful survival strategy.

Ketone esters are small organic chemicals that provide energy for the heart, brain and skeletal muscle in a highly efficient way, but are typically produced by the body only during periods of food scarcity and are not naturally present in typical modern diets.

Writing in the journal, Conservation Biology, scientists recommend the adoption of measures to mitigate against a range of effects including; food scarcity (where fisheries compete for the same resources), being caught in fishing nets, oil pollution and climate change.

The study refutes the notion that climate change will increase the frequency of civil war in Africa as a result of food scarcity triggered by rising temperatures and drought.

While climate change is expected to lead to more violence related to food scarcity, new research suggests that the strength of a country's government plays a vital role in preventing uprisings.

«There's not a lot of information on cannibalism in the animal kingdom, and it is mainly thought to be driven by food scarcity,» says Meek.

Now threatened or endangered in most of that country, their scarcity could spell trouble for some of their food sources.

Shortages of fertile females were particularly common in times of food scarcity, when baboon troops distance themselves from each other and females take 15 percent longer between successive births — which means males who don't kill have even longer to wait.

Success in these twin facets of human sustainability will crack the unbreakable code of our most pressing global issues: climate change, food scarcity, water supplies, immigration, health care, biodiversity loss, even war.

The solution to the very visible global problems of deforestation, desertification and food scarcity may be hiding in plain sight: the transformative ability to restore degraded land to productive use.

Unsurprisingly, metabolic hormones are strongly influenced by food intake: in the face of apparent scarcity, things down - regulate, and in the face of abundance, things up - regulate and restore.

Due to the scarcity of minerals in our food supply, it is very important to eat as many mineral - rich foods as possible, including grass - fed red meat.

The research team suggests this mechanism may have played a role in evolution by stimulating animals to fatten up in times of food scarcity.

'' The organization of the females» response to the energy restricted diets is suggestive of some underlying mechanism that may allow for an organized, pre-programmed, response to enhance survival in times of food scarcity.

Females and males typically play different roles in survival of the species and would be expected to respond differently to food scarcity or excess.

Scarcity of food and fuel are normal conditions in our growing world.

In related news, in the distant future — some say the near future — North America, northern Asia and Europe will see millions of climate refugees from southern lands trekking northward, as you know, and our descendants in 2121 or 2222 might all might be under threat from the devastating impacts of» climate chaos» — from rising sea levels to a scary scarcity of food, fuel and shelteIn related news, in the distant future — some say the near future — North America, northern Asia and Europe will see millions of climate refugees from southern lands trekking northward, as you know, and our descendants in 2121 or 2222 might all might be under threat from the devastating impacts of» climate chaos» — from rising sea levels to a scary scarcity of food, fuel and sheltein the distant future — some say the near future — North America, northern Asia and Europe will see millions of climate refugees from southern lands trekking northward, as you know, and our descendants in 2121 or 2222 might all might be under threat from the devastating impacts of» climate chaos» — from rising sea levels to a scary scarcity of food, fuel and sheltein 2121 or 2222 might all might be under threat from the devastating impacts of» climate chaos» — from rising sea levels to a scary scarcity of food, fuel and shelter.

Nations» propensity to cease food exports and hoard supplies in times of scarcity can form a massive multiplier of what would otherwise be a relatively minor impact.

Scarcity of food sources from destruction of farmland and pastoral areas because of changing climatic conditions, he said, has helped foment wars in his country, including the one in Darfur.

Hidden in the depths of these woodlands, even on the steepest slopes, I found the remains of agricultural terraces, built and used in earlier times of scarcity when this marginal land was needed for food production.

For example, increasing water scarcity in some regions will force hard choices about the allocation of water for growing food, producing electricity, providing for urban uses, and protecting ecosystems.

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We are entering a time of chronic food scarcity, one that is leading to intense competition for control of land and water resources — in short, a new geopolitics of food.

The world is in transition from an era of food abundance to one of scarcity.

In their letter accompanying the book they wrote, «The enclosed book, Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity by Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute, contains the best analysis of what Chuck Sloan inherently knew.

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.

Curated by Marije Vogelzang, a designer who leads the food design department at Design Academy Eindhoven, the exhibition offers an insight into how food will be grown, processed, transport, and eaten in the future, and how farming systems could change as a result of food scarcity and new technologies.

Many other challenges such as the distortion of ecosystem services, the loss of biodiversity, the degradation of land, sprawling urbanization, worsening water scarcity, the disturbances in terrestrial and marine food chains or the ubiquitous pollution of all environmental systems have to be taken into consideration.

Consequently, water scarcity is one of the biggest risks facing the $ 5 trillion food and beverage industry, causing spikes in operating and procurement costs and influencing reputations.

This opens a new chapter in the geopolitics of food scarcity.

«Though heavily packed with statistical information and evidences compiled from the work of hundreds of scientists, this book is an approachable resource for those who are interested in understanding food scarcity, regardless of their educational background.»

Breaking New Ground: A Personal History (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2013) Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2012) World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2011) Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2009) Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2008) Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2006) Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2005) Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2003) The Earth Policy Reader (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2002) with Janet Larsen and Bernie Fischlowitz - Roberts Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2001) Plan B Updates:

Failed rains in the Horn of Africa threatened 13 million people with food scarcity and pushed unstable Somalia into famine, < killing tens of thousands of people.

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.

Even being overweight or physically inactive in regions where we typically understand life to be characterised by scarcity of food, and hard physical labour are each bigger problems than climate change.

Anna Taylor, of the Stockholm Environment Institute in Oxford has no PhD at all, her research focuses on «stakeholder engagement in adapting to multiple stresses, including climate variability and change, water scarcity, food insecurity and health concerns» — not climate science, and has simply not been alive long enough to join the ranks of the specialists of specialisms that Dessler demands of sceptics.

These tables and graphs help to explain the precarious situation in which humanity finds itself, as the world leaves an era of food surpluses and enters one of food scarcity.