Sentences with phrase «sectorsto ensure food security»

The well - funded dairy lobby spends a great deal of money (an estimated $ 80 to $ 100 million each year — ironically paid for by the higher prices consumers pay), persuading federal and provincial politicians that supply management «protects the family farm,» «ensures food security» and that, because these farmers are so numerous, doing anything to upset them would be political suicide.

They say: «excessive use of pesticides are very dangerous to human health, to the environment and it is misleading to claim they are vital to ensuring food security.»

In order to ensure food security, good nutrition, and a sense of belonging for this vulnerable population, investments in communal gardens for refugees should be considered as an innovative solution.

«Small - scale farmers have developed initiatives and alternatives that embody a farmer - led and farmer - centered agricultural system that not only ensures food security, but also resists the control of agrochemical corporations,» said Nazareno.

Vision: united and transformed agriculture, forestry and fisheries sector that ensures food security for all and economic prosperity.

«To ensure food security for every child, woman and man, we must intensify food production while at the same time address the problems of distribution, and end shocking levels of food spoilage and loss.

However, it is talking of the challenges ahead and ensuring their people are well and safely fed and that agricultural land is protected and productive to ensure food security.»

By purchasing Alter Eco quinoa, consumers are supporting the efforts of the brand and the United Nations alike to ensure food security, economic justice, and biodiversity in some of the poorest parts of the world.

Optimal breastfeeding for the first 2 years of life is the single most effective intervention to prevent child deaths worldwide.1 Breastfeeding saves children's lives, supports their growth and development, preventsmalnutrition, ensures food security for infants, protects maternal and child health, reduces financial pressure on families, supports loving relationships and increases educational attainment.

«We want to upgrade and scale up this project where necessary and key it into our Agro Tourism drive and effort to ensure food security for our people,» Governor Ambode said.

He said the Planting for Food and Jobs policy was a flagship programme of the government to increase food production and ensure food security.

He said in addition to ensuring the safety of lives and property, the Federal Government is committed to ensuring food security for the country's growing population, and the transformation of the national economy.

Speaking at the handing over ceremony at Yikene, the Upper East Regional Minister, James Zuugah Tiigah commended the company for the innovative initiative which will go a long way to ensure food security and further reduce poverty among over 200 households.

To ensure food security, irrigation should be encouraged wherever and whenever it is environmentally sustainable, so the key is to improve the spatial and temporal allocation of water used for irrigation.»

«Agroforestry can ensure food security, mitigate effects of climate change in Africa.»

«PhDs prepare the medical doctors for a healthy society; the engineers to build the roads, bridges, dams, hospitals and schools; the agriculturalists to ensure food security; the educators to shape the next generation of teachers, not to mention economists, lawyers, scientists, business specialists — all contributing to the development of a «knowledge» society,» he writes.

Collectively, these findings could be valuable in breeding plants for warm climates and ensuring food security.»

Co-author Professor Garry Russ adds «Networks of marine reserves on coral reefs are a central strategy for ensuring food security for millions of people in the Coral Triangle region, just to the north of Australia.

The ultimate goal should be to use the limited resource «land «in a way that it ensures food security..

This approach can ensure food security, alleviate rural poverty and hunger and build resistance to major environmental challenges.

Your support helps to conserve soil and ensure food security, to sustain rural community's livelihoods, and build resilience to climate change.

«Pollinators like monarchs provide essential services that ensure food security and farmland health.»

Nonetheless, it is deeply troubling that we are screwing up our natural systems so badly that we have to resort to developing «bubbles» of stability in order to ensure our food security.

This infographic on the actions that need to be prioritized to improve the adaptive capacity in agriculture sectorsto ensure food security and build resilience against climate change impacts.

The document also suggest ensuring food security in the face of climate change is among the most daunting challenges facing humankind.

The report suggests ways forward for consolidating the global agendas of curbing climate change and ensuring food security for all.

This brochure presents World Food Day on 16 October 2016, which promotes worldwide awareness and action for those who suffer from hunger and for the need to ensure food security and nutritious diets for all.

Action is urgently needed now to reduce vulnerability and increase resilience of food systems to ensure food security and good nutrition for all.

Forests provide essential services in reducing poverty, providing energy and ensuring food security across the world, yet government policies fail to harness these benefits, said the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation.

«Let me say this clearly: we can not ensure food security or sustainable development without preserving and using forest resources responsibly.»

The study uses gender, institutional, and climate analyses to document the trends in climate variability men and women farmers are facing and their responses to ensure food security in the context of larger socio - economic and political challenges to their livelihoods and well - being.

For Brazil, international climate negotiations should not be focused on discussing REDD and other market - based mechanisms, but rather on the transition to a new production, distribution and consumption model based on agroecology, on a solidarity - based economic approach, and on a diversified and decentralized energy matrix capable of ensuring food security and sovereignty.

If we restored 300 million of these 2 billion hectares of land, we can ensure food security for all by 2050.»

Adaptation outcomes focusing on ensuring food security under a changing climate could have the most direct benefits on livelihoods, which have multiple benefits for food security, including: enhancing food production, access to markets and resources, and reduced disaster risk.

Your support helps to conserve soil and ensure food security, to sustain rural community's livelihoods, and build resilience to climate change.

With these trees they hope to see livelihoods improvement through income generation from the fruits and ensure food security.

For the Green Belt Movement which has empowered communities to conserve the environment forover 37 years, ensuring food security at household level is vital to having improved livelihoods, economic empowerment and build resilience against climate change in the rural Kenya.

This is why SBSTA must consider the impacts of climate change across all scales of food production and find approaches to ensuring food security for all.

Could this help ensure food security in an uncertain future?

He also says that GMO crops are not exactly renowned for their high yields and that one of the ways to ensuring food security is to allow farmers to save seed, something Monsanto takes a dim view of.

How can we talk then about climate justice when those women are not only struggling to ensure food security but also suffering from the threat of climate variability?

Despite their large contribution in ensuring food security, their roles are considerably neglected in many developing countries.

Not exact matches

In tune with this global rhetoric, the United Front Government in its Common Minimum Program made eradication of poverty as its main emphasis along with a seven - point agenda for ensuring safe drinking water, primary education for all, primary health care, housing, food security, road networks and mid-day meals to be implemented by A.D. 2000.

In most developed countries, governments consider offering food and social security as two important areas, next only to ensuring fundamental rights.

Central to its efforts is achieving food security - to ensure people have regular access to high - quality food to lead active and healthy lives.

The world's food security would be ensured even with over 9 billion people in 2050, agricultural land area would not increase, greenhouse gas emissions would be lowered and the negative effects of today's intensive food systems, such as nitrogen surplus and high pesticide exposure, would be greatly reduced.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Dr. R.R.A. Wijekoon, Director General of Agriculture, Government of Sri Lanka, said «This will strengthen rice research development activities in the country especially to ensure food and nutrition security and sharing of global innovative technologies for the country's successful rice production.»

Food security is also recognized as being more than just providing people with enough calories to live on, but ensuring people have enough nutrients for optimal health too.

With the impact of climate change and more diversified diets across the growing global middle class, temperate rice production is becoming increasingly important to ensure global food security.

In establishing an international rice futures market, Singapore could also play an important part in helping the world achieve food security, keeping rice prices affordable for poor rice consumers, and ensuring its own supply of rice into the future.