Sentences with phrase «water insecurity in»

Food and water insecurity in arid and semi-arid regions have resulted in livestock deaths, crop failure, inter-community tensions and school closures.

Wendy Jepson's current long - term project examines water insecurity in low - income communities in the U.S. and Latin America.

Not exact matches

The difference is not the quantity of water in my own well (because I do try to keep it full), but my insecurity, desire to please, fear of rejection, or even physical health.

Secretly tossed in turbulent waters of insecurity and doubt.

The violence in Darfur and Somalia is fundamentally related to food and water insecurity.

«Climate change, energy and food insecurity, biodiversity loss and water shortages all have raised the stakes,» said Jianguo «Jack» Liu, Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability and CSIS director.

Border Zones and Liminal Bodies This screening features short video art pieces by 12 U.S. and international artists that invite viewers to contemplate contemporary issues, such as migration and refugee crises, disability and the body in movement, feminicide in Ciudad Juárez, water insecurity, and other issues.

Posted in Advocacy, Development and Climate Change, Ecosystem Functions, Environment, Governance, Government Policies, India, Information and Communication, Land, Lessons, News, Poverty, Rainfall, Resilience, Vulnerability, Water, Weather Comments Off on The Battle For Water — India's Food Insecurity Compounded By Water Scarcity

In many areas, climate change increases the already high risks to people living in poverty or to people suffering from food insecurity or inadequate water supplieIn many areas, climate change increases the already high risks to people living in poverty or to people suffering from food insecurity or inadequate water suppliein poverty or to people suffering from food insecurity or inadequate water supplies.

Releasing the book, Charafat Afailal, Morocco's Minister in charge of Water, said, «We need to realise what is at stake, since water insecurity leads to increased conflicts, tension between populations, and also provokes migration that threatens overall stability.&rWater, said, «We need to realise what is at stake, since water insecurity leads to increased conflicts, tension between populations, and also provokes migration that threatens overall stability.&rwater insecurity leads to increased conflicts, tension between populations, and also provokes migration that threatens overall stability.»

Not only will climate change directly impact forests and the other natural systems that maintain critical water - related ecosystem services, climate impacts will be experienced largely through the medium of water — melting glaciers, changing rainfall patterns, increased water stress and drought from higher temperatures, more severe storms — resulting in increased water and food insecurity, and constraints on economic opportunity.

Participants at today's high - level Hikma Hours session were of the view that research and technology and strong government cooperation were key to ensuring that future generations in the Arab world did not suffer from food and water insecurity.

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.

Growing world food insecurity is ushering in a new geopolitics of food scarcity, one where competition for land and water is crossing national boundaries.

In his written testimony, Admiral McGinn cited a number of scenarios that could come to pass if we fail to address the climate problem: rising humanitarian crises and conflicts in Africa exacerbated by drought, food insecurity, and extreme weather; social conflict and northern migration in Latin American driven by food shortages and land degradation; millions of refugees driven northward by intense coastal typhoon damage in Bangladesh; and external and internal unrest in Asia compounded by unreliable water supplies from the shrinking Himalayan glacierIn his written testimony, Admiral McGinn cited a number of scenarios that could come to pass if we fail to address the climate problem: rising humanitarian crises and conflicts in Africa exacerbated by drought, food insecurity, and extreme weather; social conflict and northern migration in Latin American driven by food shortages and land degradation; millions of refugees driven northward by intense coastal typhoon damage in Bangladesh; and external and internal unrest in Asia compounded by unreliable water supplies from the shrinking Himalayan glacierin Africa exacerbated by drought, food insecurity, and extreme weather; social conflict and northern migration in Latin American driven by food shortages and land degradation; millions of refugees driven northward by intense coastal typhoon damage in Bangladesh; and external and internal unrest in Asia compounded by unreliable water supplies from the shrinking Himalayan glacierin Latin American driven by food shortages and land degradation; millions of refugees driven northward by intense coastal typhoon damage in Bangladesh; and external and internal unrest in Asia compounded by unreliable water supplies from the shrinking Himalayan glacierin Bangladesh; and external and internal unrest in Asia compounded by unreliable water supplies from the shrinking Himalayan glacierin Asia compounded by unreliable water supplies from the shrinking Himalayan glaciers.