Sentences with phrase «world food security»

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

There are clearly safer ways to assure world food security in the next several decades.

ROME, Italy — Today Civil Society movements blamed Governments negotiating on biofuels at the Committee on World Food security for defending the interests of the biofuels industry rather than the interests of people pushed into hunger by biofuel policies.

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.

As land and water become scarce, as the earth's temperature rises, and as world food security deteriorates, a dangerous geopolitics of food scarcity is emerging.

The Committee of World Food Security (CFS 41st session) called on all public, private and civil society actors to promote a common understanding of FLW and create an enabling environment based on the «food use - not - loss - or - waste» hierarchy, especially for monitoring, measurement, and reporting targets.

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...

Securing world food security while maintaining operable global ecosystems may be one of the biggest challenges humanity faces this century.

The price is seen in compromised world food security, climatic upheaval, economic instability and threats to social welfare.

Our voice was also heard at the UN's Committee on world Food Security in Rome as Australasian delegate.

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?

They'll explain that their production is necessary for world food security, and that they should therefore be let off the hook, or better yet, get incentives for tinkering with their greenhouse gas emissions.

On 17 — 21 October, the annual meeting of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) took place at FAO Headquarters in Rome.During the first day, FAO launched its flagship publication on The State of Food and Agriculture, which focused on climate change this year.

The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT) were endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) on 11 May 2012.

10 Years of the Right to Adequate Food Guidelines - Progress, Obstacles and the Way Ahead Civil Society Synthesis Paper for the 41st Session of the UN Committee on World Food Security

Given that wheat feeds more than one - third of Earth's population, says Gill, «this is good news for world food security.»

In Climate change and world food security, Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 137: 115 — 159.

More recently he and colleagues calculated that the relentless increase in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere could limit the growing season and pose a threat to world food security.

This year we will have our second delegation to the Committee on World Food Security, dealing with, among other things, the 10 - year review of the Right to Food Guidelines, Food Loss and Waste, Fisheries and Aquaculture, and responsible agricultural investment.

Recent reports by the National Research Council (NRC), the New England Complex Systems Institute (CSI), the UN Committee on World Food Security (CWFS), and Iowa State University (ISU) all acknowledge that biofuel policies put upward pressure on food and feed prices.

The Committee on World Food Security: A Visual Introduction to one of the intergovernmental forums that is at the core of food politics: the Commitee on World Food Security (CFS).

At a time when excessive pressures on the earth's land and water resources are of growing concern, there is a massive new demand emerging for cropland to produce fuel for cars — one that threatens world food security.

«Biofuels are not the villain menacing food security in poor countries,» Lula said at a global summit in Rome on world food security.

Parry, M., C. Rosenzweig, A. Iglesias, G. Fischer, and M. Livermore, 1999: Climate change and world food security: A new assessment.

This could measurably raise global carbon emissions, increasing the climate threat to world food security.