Sentences with phrase «threaten food security»

But if not managed sustainably, it could seriously threaten food security, hindering access to food for some of the most vulnerable.

Without strong signals from consumers, not enough farmers and ranchers will switch to these practices in the timeframe needed to reverse current climate trends that threaten food security and the future of our planet.

NATURE»S CLIMATE CHANGE BLOG features warnings about biofuels: Warnings that switching to biofuels as a «clean» energy source could threaten food security and increase deforestation have become increasingly stark this week....

Global food production must rise to meet global food needs, but predicted increases in extreme weather events — combined with stresses such as poverty, conflict and weak governance — threaten food security.

U.S. biofuels policies are a leading cause of increased global food prices and market volatility, which threaten food security for communities both domestically and abroad.

These impacts threaten food security and food sovereignty like never before and in addition to that, they threaten the lives and livelihoods of women who have their hands deep in the land, and their dependents.

«Sustainable tourism, especially ecotourism, shouldn't threaten the food security of local people or their environment.»

«To answer the first point, it is incorrect to speculate that Golden Rice will threaten food security,» said Dr. Villegas.

Some groups are keen on stopping the deployment of Golden Rice by raising speculations that a) it will threaten food security by contaminating traditional rice varieties, b) it is being forced to farmers and consumers as a complete solution to VAD, and c) its lengthy development shows that it is a false solution to VAD.

Thus, globalization threatens food security and destroy the environment and causes people extreme pains and agony.

«The effects will be seen worldwide, threatening food security, reducing coastal protection and damaging the local economies that may be least able to tolerate it.

In the journal Nature Climate Change, lead author Dr. Tom Bridge from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies based at James Cook University and colleagues point out that global conservation policies have so far failed to prevent the widespread destruction of coral reefs and their fish life, which now threatens the food security of millions of people.

A team of researchers, representing the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and Wageningen University, has raised the alarm over the enormous economic impact of parasitic weeds on rice production in Africa, threatening the food security and livelihoods of millions of resource - poor rice farmers and consumers in the region.

An international team of researchers representing the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and Wageningen University, has raised alarm over the enormous economic impact parasitic weeds have on rice production in Africa, threatening the food security and livelihoods of millions of resource - poor rice farmers and consumers in the Region.

This threatens food security in poor countries and is also likely to contribute to higher emissions, as farmers respond to higher prices by expanding production, sometimes into rainforest or peatland.

The role of climate change in causing extreme heat waves, drastic rainfall, negative impacts on human health and threatened food security have received more attention recently than megadrought.

Why it Matters to People in the Arctic and for the Rest of the World: First, Arctic communities are at the front lines of extreme weather events, facing collapsing infrastructure, threatened food security, and growing health concerns.

The First Lady said the country has witnessed the adverse effects of environmental degradation including decline and extinction of thousands of animal and plant species, phenomenal drying up of rivers and receding water levels in our water reservoirs, and widespread crop failure that threatens food security.

This threatens food security and rural livelihoods across the globe.

Not exact matches

In a world where more than one billion people do not have enough to eat, and our future food security is threatened by climate change and an ever - growing population, it is essential to improve the control of crop diseases like fusarium ear blight around the globe.

The illicit trade in wildlife and wildlife parts is now a multi-billion industry decimating iconic animal populations, undermining security across nations, and threatening ecosystems, food security, human health, and livelihoods among the world's poorest communities.

While the manufacturer of Quorn ™ cultivates strains of Fusarium venenatum via fermentation into a mycoprotein dough for human consumption, farmers try to fight off Fusarium graminearum as this pervasive fungal pathogen invades multiple crops and threatens global food security.

Michael Puma, an expert on water and food security at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies who was not involved in the study, noted that «Arsenic contamination of groundwater threatens well over 100 million people worldwide.

The 196 country Parties attending the 13th session of their Conference are expected to agree on a 12 - year Strategy to contain runaway land degradation that is threatening global food and water security.

A new study examining the effects of sunshade geoengineering has concluded that such an approach would be more likely to improve food security than threaten it.

A new study from the Carnegie Institution for Science examining the effects of sunshade geoengineering has concluded that such an approach would be more likely to improve food security than threaten it.

Unfortunately, he adds, that there hasn't been an improvement in the stocks of fish and continued depletion threatens world food security.

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.

Prof Peirs Forster (Univ of Leeds, UK; IPCC lead author) led a 2012 study of the probability of extreme drought across Asia, in which this was found to be liable to occur within 10 years on a scale potentially threatening global food security.

Global climate change risks are high to very high with global mean temperature increase of 4 °C or more above preindustrial levels in all reasons for concern (Assessment Box SPM.1), and include severe and widespread impacts on unique and threatened systems, substantial species extinction, large risks to global and regional food security, and the combination of high temperature and humidity compromising normal human activities, including growing food or working outdoors in some areas for parts of the year (high confidence).

And also recent studies have found that biofuels may be threatening global food security.

What could threaten world food security more than the melting of the glaciers that feed the major rivers of Asia during the dry season, the rivers that irrigate the region's rice and wheat fields?

As Lester Brown writes in Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, mountain glaciers are melting in the Andes, the Rocky Mountains, the Alps, and elsewhere, but nowhere does this melting threaten world food security more than in the Himalayas and on the Tibet - Qinghai Plateau, where the melting of glaciers could soon deprive the major rivers of India and China of the ice melt needed to sustain them during the dry season.

Lester R. Brown, «Exploding U.S. Grain Demand for Automotive Fuel Threatens World Food Security and Political Stability,» Plan B Update (Washington, DC: Earth Policy Institute, 3 November 2006); Lester R. Brown, «Distillery Demand for Grain to Fuel Cars Vastly Understated: World May Be Facing Highest Grain Prices in History,» Plan B Update (Washington, DC: Earth Policy Institute, 4 January 2007); F.O. Licht, World Ethanol and Biofuels Report, vol.

Climate change threatens ocean ecosystems, food security and economic development alike, Indonesia's Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries said in his opening speech (Xinhuanet).

Europe's energy policies are putting millions of people in danger, threatening Africa's fragile food security.»

As eight millennia of experience and the unfolding disaster of agrofuel clearly demonstrate, expansion of land - conversion by industrial agriculture strongly threatens biodiversity and ecosystems that play an essential role in stabilising and regulating the climate, and are necessary to ensure food and water security.

• The health and food security of some indigenous peoples would be threatened, challenging the survival of some cultures.

It is argued by the whalers that growing whale populations will lead to an imbalance in the marine ecosystem, and that by distorting the marine food chain, recovering populations of whales will threaten global food security.

Agrofuels are worsening climate change, threatening people's food security, driving land grabs, and destroying forests and other crucial ecosystems.

Because of the looming specter of climate change that is threatening to disrupt agriculture, we may find that energy policies will have an even greater effect on future food security than agricultural policies do.

While plants in temperate zones may benefit from higher temperatures, global warming's impact in the tropics threatens catastrophe for food security.

Climate change threatens our ability to ensure global food security, eradicate poverty and achieve sustainable development.

Mountain glaciers are melting in the Andes, the Rocky Mountains, the Alps, and elsewhere, but nowhere does melting threaten world food security more than in the glaciers of the Himalayas and on the Tibetan Plateau that feed the major rivers of India and China.

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Leaving the work under the Paris Agreement that is already weak enough for the year 2020 leaves us with four years of inaction that will have irreversible consequences such as the disappearance of small island nations, threatening of agriculture and food security, displacement of frontline communities, health problems like never before.

Indigenous peoples of the Arctic are among the first that are being forced to relocate entire villages and whose food security is threatened by not only the negative impacts of climate change but by the pollution caused by oil, natural gas spills, and mining operations in our critical ecosystems.

Global food production and food security are threatened by the greater variability of the climate and increasing occurrence of extreme weather events.

The choice of a stabilization level implies the balancing of the risks of climate change (risks of gradual change and of extreme events, risk of irreversible change of the climate, including risks for food security, ecosystems and sustainable development) against the risk of response measures that may threaten economic sustainability.