Sentences with phrase «unite for food production»

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When former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said last fall that his earlier enthusiasm for corn - based ethanol production in the United States was a mistake, he was conceding something that had long been obvious: the practice of diverting food crops to biofuels has contributed to food shortages and driven up prices for staples across the globe.

In its most recent report on the state of global fisheries, the United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization warned that 90 percent of the world's fish stocks are fully or overfished, and increasing production to meet the world's growing demand for animal protein can't be done in a sustainable manner.

Agriculturists in the United States had been so fully drawn into industrial patterns of thought that they continued to assume that their task was to deal with the need for increasing food production for the growing population to which the ecologists pointed with alarm.

Korea is now a country dependent for its food on the United States, although Korea had been self - reliant in terms of food production for thousands of years.

For example, the United States now prohibits the use of certain poisons in the production of food.

The strategy contributes toward global action on reducing food waste by aligning with Sustainable Development Goal 12 — ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns — in the United Nations Transforming our world: 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Meat production is responsible for 14.5 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, with some scientists saying the percentage is higher.

Artist Victor Cartagena worked with United Farm Workers in Salina for this collection of works exploring the systemic injustice of food production through the stories of migrant workers.

Despite the fact that certain food dyes have been discontinued for the process and production of foods in the European Union, some still manage to be used by the food industry in Canada and the United States.

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GCAP, which is implemented by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) with funding from the World Bank and the United States Agency for International Development, seeks to amongst others ensure increased agricultural production to improve incomes of farmers.

The father of the green revolution, Norman Borlaug, who passed away in September at the age of 95, made exactly this point in 1970 when he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize: «There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort.»

In the United States in 2010, food production was responsible for about 8 percent of the nation's heat - trapping greenhouse gas emissions.

If the land devoted to growing food for cattle in the United States were used to grow peas, barley, and other crops for people instead, beef production would drop by 55 %, from 31 million to 14 million beef cattle, the team reports today in Nature Ecology and Evolution.

In the second study, Timothy Searchinger, a researcher at Princeton University, looked at a future scenario in which the United States substantially increases its production of corn - based ethanol, a move that would decrease domestic crops for food and feedstock.

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James Spratt, an electrician, saw dogs around a shipyard eating scraps of biscuits and was inspired to create a food specifically for dogs; by 1890 he began production in the United States of his line of dog food, know then as «Spratt's Patent Limited.»

At the same time, the United States needs industrial hemp production for a variety of products and foods.

With growing demand for meat around the world in places such as China, the United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) predicts that soy production will continue to increase dramatically, from around 276 million metric tons in 2013 to 390 million metric tons by 2050.

Lesk and his colleagues analyzed national agricultural - production data from the United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization for 16 cereals in 177 countries.

For example, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has been compiling forest inventories since 1946 providing detailed data on carbon stocks, often based on commercial wood production data.

The United Nations is appealing for funds to fight hunger in the drought - hit Sahel, as scientific studies highlight climate change threats to food production.

In 2007 and early 2008, for example, a bumper crop of media articles blamed sharply higher food prices worldwide on the production of biofuels, particularly ethanol from corn, in the United States.

The United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that livestock production accounts for some 2.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent greenhouse gases annually, or about 35 percent of total anthropogenic methane emissions.

Scan food product on production line for mailing distribution to various companies in the United States.