Sentences with phrase «water and food security»

(g) identify climate change - related impacts on global water and food security and nutrition and the resulting impacts on national security, and recommend actions to mitigate these impacts;

When water and food security are at stake, it is not possible for forest industries to focus on growth, just to increase the global production of wrapping and toilet paper.

Droughts pose significant water and food security challenges, especially in semiarid and arid regions of the world.

The warming as well as the droughts caused by climate change, combined with the unsustainable use of aquifers and surface water, pose grave threats to the availability of fresh water and food security.

The warming as well as the droughts caused by climate change, combined with the unsustainable use of aquifers and surface water, pose grave threats to availability of fresh water and food security.

The theme for this year's World Water Week is Water and Food Security, which means that many — particularly within the dam industry — will be calling for more dams to provide water storage and energy.

For the only proven routes to development — to water and food security, improved health care and education, secure livelihoods — involve expanding access to energy services, and, consequently, a seemingly inevitable increase in fossil fuel use and thus carbon emissions.

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.

Environmental challenges, climate change, water and food security and urban air pollution, they are all interlinked, yet each is studied as such, separately.

Dr Paschalis added: «Understanding the responses of plants to elevated concentrations of CO2 is of major importance with potential implications on the global economy and water and food security under a changing climate.»

Committee on World Food Security High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition Water and food security: zero - draft consultation paper Deadline 7th November CLICK HERE It will be important to have strong civil society input to this consultation so...

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«The dilemma,» Holmes says, «is how do you improve the sustainability of water supply to increase food security and food production as we go out into the future?»

For Saudi Arabia, buying land abroad helps the country maintain its food security and preserve what remains of its water reserves.

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it used to be we strived to do better, that is why we ended slavery, ended segrigation, created Social Security, built roads, public schools, ended child labor, created FEMA, the National Weather Service, FDA, FFA, the Military and all the other programs that give us safe schools, roads, public buildings, homes, food, water and products.

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.

Preemptive Love Coalition wants to empower women like Sozan and set these women who ISIS would like make invisible free to care for their kids with dignity and long - term security, so these mothers can provide food, water, shelter, clothes, and healthcare for themselves.

Digital technology, resistance to drugs, food security and water consumption are all on the agenda.

So that is things like livelihood, and security, and education and health care, kind of those soft targets, not providing food and water and shelter, the basic needs, but what overall will make a community more stable?

Our research focuses on biologically - based mechanisms to reduce pest issues, soil erosion, fossil fuel use, and greenhouse gas emissions; increase nutrient and water use efficiencies; improve pollinator activity and food security; and apply a systems approach to soil, crop, animal, human and planetary health.

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 drought.

Nabhan points out that with water capacity near its limit for cities and rural agricultural areas, «food security in the Southwest depends upon the security of water supplies being delivered to irrigable land.

This helps the company secure supplies of agricultural raw materials it requires, as well as having a positive impact on society by supporting rural development, water conservation, and food security.

Fodder Solutions provides the ultimate solution guaranteeing food security regardless of weather, water availability and feed conditions...

It also encompasses social, economic and ecological considerations, such as infrastructure, storage, waste reduction and improving and preserving water quality — all of which are critical to achieving global food security.

Cristina Grandi, IFOAM Food Security Campaigner, presented a poster on the «Benefits of organic farming systems» examining environmental, economic and social aspects as well as data on soil health, water efficiency, biodiversity, energy efficiency, yields, profitability, nutrition and employment.

The workshop focussed on multi-stakeholder research initiatives addressing issues of food, energy and water security in India, Nepal and Bangladesh.

Meanwhile, environmental and population changes have major implications for issues including food and nutrition security, access to clean water and sanitation, and natural disasters.

It said that increased production of meat and dairy products «undermines the ecological foundation of food security due to its contribution to land degradation, water pollution, biodiversity loss and climate change».1

This figure is frequently repeated in reports and discussions about our future food security, along with whether we'll have enough land, water and fertilisers to do so.

Investors managing more than $ 2.6 trn in assets have sent joint letters to 15 international food and drink companies amid growing concerns over water security and pollution.

Organic agriculture captures high levels of CO2, conserves soil, water and fossil - fuels, protects carbon - rich ecosystems and improves food security

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

If you're traveling with a baby (under the age of two), items such as baby food, breast milk, formula, water, and juice are exempt from airport security's 100 ml limit and do not have to be placed in a plastic bag.

Basic interventions to facilitate breastfeeding include prioritising mothers with young children for shelter, food, security, and water and sanitation, enabling mother - to - mother support, providing specific space for skilled breastfeeding counselling and support to maintain or re-establish lactation.

«Importantly, we are the only organisation that can help the next government achieve the long term security food, water, housing and energy issues that will be at the top of every party's agenda.

Sufficient supplies of water — a tangible asset for farming businesses - are crucial to food production and food security.

«We believe that universal access to health care, education, affordable food, water, electricity and housing is the right of every Ghanaian» says the manifesto, adding that the NDC Government will establish and implement a framework for collective and individual contribution to the peace, safety, security and stability of the country when retained in power.

But as anxiety mounts - even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow and extremist groups worldwide exploit the desperation of people losing livelihoods to desertification - many are finding new routes to water security with key implications for food access, economic resilience, and climate change.

Craig Just's research interests vary widely from freshwater mussels and how they mitigate nitrogen contamination to water resources, food security and energy system design and implementation in resource - constrained communities.

Christopher Scott is an interdisciplinary scholar and practitioner whose work focuses on water security, river - basin resilience, groundwater depletion, the water - energy - food nexus, water reuse, transboundary adaptive management, climate resilience and science - policy dialogues.

The essays covered a wide range of topics at the intersection of science of human rights, including reproductive technologies, food security, artificial intelligence, data privacy, and access to water.

During this Colloquium, members of the 2018 - 2019 cohort of AAAS Leshner Public Engagement Fellows will share the ways that they have engaged audiences around food and water security and how they have used those interactions to spur innovations in their own research.

Engaging the Public on Food and Water Security: Perspectives from the AAAS Leshner Public Engagement Fellows

«Global challenges are mounting: in the equitable provision of reliable energy, food and water security, in population health, biodiversity protection, cyber security and the prevention of catastrophic climate change.»

The American Association for the Advancement of Science is plesaed to announce the selection of 15 food and water security researchers as the 2018 - 19 AAAS Alan I. Leshner Leadership Institute Public Engagement Fellows.

U.S. scientists are exchanging information with their counterparts in Arabic - language regions who have a keen interest in water desalination, food security, drought response and other cross-border environmental issues.

AAAS announced the selection of 15 food and water security researchers as the 2018 - 19 AAAS Alan I. Leshner Leadership Institute Public Engagement Fellows on February 15.

The insights into the effects of humankind on land, nature, food security, water and climate have been drawn in four assessments on Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe and Central Asia and a global assessment on Land Degradation and restoration.

Both developments contribute to climate change and loss of food security, the availability of water and the natural protection against flooding and drought, leading to further societal instability.