Sentences with phrase «world food supply»

According to some predictions, climate change caused by human activity could cause mass extinction in the oceans, redraw the planet's coastlines, and ravage world food supplies.

The book also provoked criticism in the West from scholars who couldn't accept that a rising China, with many millions of people aspiring to better diets, will inevitably tax world food supplies.

Humanity currently depends on atmospheric nitrogen to produce enough fertilizer to maintain world food supply.

Climate change, water stress, land deterioration, and a shrinking backlog of unused agricultural technologies all are playing a role in the slowing growth in world food supplies, all while populations are growing.

In the 1970s, when tight world food supplies were generating unacceptable food price inflation in the United States, the government restricted grain exports.

In this era of tightening world food supplies, the ability to grow food is fast becoming a new form of geopolitical leverage.

In a globalized food economy, increased demand for food to fuel American vehicles puts additional pressure on world food supplies.

Organic agriculture has many positive effects on the environment and contributes to solving the problem of the world food supply: This is shown in a new FiBL study.

He tells us global warming will disrupt the circulation of the ocean waters, dramatically changing climates, throwing the world food supply into chaos.

I doubt that any self - respecting environmentalist things that ethanol from corn is good for global warming, good for the environment or good for the world food supply.

Climate change and world food supply, demand and trade: who benefits, who loses?

Dr. Idso has been involved in the global warming debate for many years and has published peer - reviewed scientific articles on issues related to data quality, the growing season, the seasonal cycle of atmospheric CO2, world food supplies, coral reefs, and urban CO2 concentrations, the latter of which he investigated via a National Science Foundation grant as a faculty researcher in the Office of Climatology at Arizona State University.

Crop response to elevated CO2 and world food supply (A comment on «Food for thought» by Long et al., 2006, Science 312: 1918 — 21.).

World food supply is already tenuous, Two years of drought in these areas would be a catastrophe for prices.

Craig Idso, who founded the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, said the world food supply will fall short of demand by 2050 unless more CO2 is pumped into the atmosphere.

Fischer G., K. Frohberg, M.L. Parry, and C. Rosenzweig, 1994: Climate Change and World Food Supply, Demand and Trade: Who Benefits, Who Looses?

Biofuels demand will increase, not decrease, world food supplies.

Global grain production will tumble by 63 million metric tons this year, or 2 percent over all, mainly because of weather - related calamities like the Russian heat wave and the floods in Pakistan, the United Nations estimates in its most recent report on the world food supply.

Example of basic scenario construction for an impact study: the case of climate change and world food supply (Rosenzweig and Parry, 1994).

The vanishing of mountain glaciers in Asia therefore represents the biggest threat to the world food supply that we have ever seen.

The loss of these pollinators is alarming because without them the world food supply will dry up including fruits, vegetables, flowers, other plants, and trees.

Tubiello, F.N., J.S. Amthor, K.J. Boote, M. Donatelli, W. Easterling, G. Fischer, R.M. Gifford, M. Howden, J. Reilly, and C. Rosenzweig, 2007: Crop response to elevated CO2 and world food supply: A comment on «Food for Thought.»