Sentences with phrase «world for human consumption»

According to the United Nations Environment Program, around one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year is either lost or wasted.

She has been an ethical vegetarian for seven years and holds the firm belief that animals are not resources born into this world for human consumption or entertainment.

Every year, nearly one - third of the food produced in the world for human consumption is lost or wasted, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

The United Nations Environment Programme reports that roughly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year — approximately 1.3 billion tons — gets lost or wasted.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) suggests, «Roughly one - third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year — approximately 1.3 billion tonnes — gets lost or wasted.»

Not exact matches

Harrington means by «socialization» the idea that the future is bringing, and will bring in geometrically increasing ratios, a deeper sense of increased human interdependence in a corporate environment, one marked by international demands for mutuality, by global communication and transportation, and by interpenetrating systems of production, distribution, and consumption, all of them interlocked and increasingly inclusive of more and more nations of the world.

Long version (from today's edition of the World's Healthiest Foods newsletter - http://whfoods.org): Molasses produced for human consumption in the United States is made from sugar cane.

Each year, an estimated one - third of all food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted world - wide.

you feel really guilty throwing away an entire bird when you know there are starving children somewhere in the world... but when we couldn't find any homeless people, we knew it was God letting us know that meal was not fit for human consumption.

Like MFM, the intention of the World Meatless Lunch initiative is to help people take small steps towards a greater goal: reducing global meat consumption and livestock production for the sake of human health, animal welfare and the environment.

Each year, one - third of all food produced for human consumption is lost world - wide.

A West L.A. company that is considered the world's largest wholesale supplier of brown rice protein for human consumption is using the findings to expand its market.

However, «The AAP Section on Breastfeeding, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Academy of Family Physicians, Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, World Health Organization, United Nations Children's Fund, and many other health organizations recommend exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life.2, 127 — 130 Exclusive breastfeeding is defined as an infant's consumption of human milk with no supplementation of any type (no water, no juice, no nonhuman milk, and no foods) except for vitamins, minerals, and medications.131 Exclusive breastfeeding has been shown to provide improved protection against many diseases and to increase the likelihood of continued breastfeeding for at least the first year of life.

It's been well researched, by studies, by world organizations, by the Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta, other organizations that have all unanimously come to the conclusion that consumption of pork is not a risk factor for transmission of influenza virus from swine to human.

Sweet potato is one of the most important food crops for human consumption in the world.

The rest of the developed world has banned the use of this chemical in milk destined for human consumption because such milk shows high levels of cancer - causing hormones and lower nutritional value.

Rice currently feeds almost half the human population making it the single most important staple food in the world, but a meta - analysis of seven cohort studies following 350,000 people for up to 20 years found that higher consumption of white rice was associated with a significantly increased risk of type 2 diabetes, especially in Asian populations.

Dax Lovegrove, Head of Business and Industry for WWF - UK, says, «It's important to celebrate innovations that drive us towards a One Planet Future - a future in which the production and consumption of goods and services flourish within the Earth's ecological limits and support human well - being around the world.»

«If the world we inhabit is bounded and finite, with limited resources, how many more years will pass before the colossal scale and global growth of unrestrained consumption, unchecked absolute human population numbers, and large - scale unbridled economic globalization activities by the human species make the Earth unfit for sustaining human habitation?»

The World's Huge Appetite for Energy Energy consumption is at the core of human existence.

Regardless of the human - forced calamities — the ones derived from unchecked consumption, unbridled dissipation of resources bound up in the process of economic globalization, and skyrocketing global human numbers — that might befall coming generations, we live on in a patently unsustainable fantasy world (we call it reality) of idle comforts, effortless ease, conspicuous consumption, secret handshakes, exclusive clubs, exotic hideaways and thousands of private jets, having abandoned our regard for the less fortunate among us, for the maintenance of life as we know it, and for the preservation of the integrity of Earth.

In a world that faces growing food insecurity, the best and most efficient response is to worry less about production and more about addressing the gaps in our current distribution system — primarily, why an estimated 40 percent of all calories produced for human consumption fails to reach mouths and bellies.

In the light of the scientific consensus on climate change, as well as «mountains» of good scientific evidence related to other potentially pernicious effects imposed on the Earth by the over consumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities of the human species in our time, it could be a pointless distraction for us to be imagining a world for our grandchildren.

Before we can find our way forward to a good enough future for our children in a sustainable world, I suppose we must find a way to organize and maintain SUSTAINABLE COMMUNICATION about the global challenges posed to humanity by the unbridled, skyrocketing growth of the human species and its soon to become patently unsustainable consumption / production activities now overspreading the surface of Earth.

A recent study, for example, used paintings to investigate evolving eating habits — of interest to Dot Earth because consumption patterns contribute to the challenges facing a world with rising human numbers and appetites.

«Meat production represents 18 percent of global human - induced GHG emissions... While the world is looking for sharp reductions in greenhouse gases responsible for climate change, growing global meat production is going to severely compromise future efforts... a study from the University of Chicago showed that if Americans were to reduce meat consumption by 20 percent it would be as if they switched from a standard sedan to the ultra-efficient Prius.»

The report furthermore provides lessons learned from the case studies for sustainable development of CRFS and offers a large number of strategies and tools that can be applied by city regions around the world, including the promotion of (peri) urban agriculture, preservation of agricultural land areas and watersheds through land use planning and zoning, development of food distribution and social protection programmes for vulnerable groups, support for short supply chains and local procurement of food, and promotion of food waste prevention, reduction and management, as well as the recovery and redistribution of safe and nutritious food for human consumption.

They were at last willing to engage with the public about the scientific consensus that our rapid consumption of carbon is causing the world to heat up faster than is good for the human species.

Since the fishing is presumably intended for animal feed in the developed world, rather than human consumption, surely this could be stopped by international agreement without disastrous effect on any national economies.

Rising energy consumption has long been synonymous with the destruction of nature, but according to Linus Blomqvist, Director of Research at Breakthrough Institute, a world with cheaper, cleaner, and more abundant energy might improve human wellbeing and, at the same time, leave more land for habitats and wildlife.

Chapter 2 Data: Population Pressure: Land and Water (XLS PDF Highlights) World Grain Production and Consumption, 1960 - 2009 World Grain Consumption and Stocks, 1960 - 2009 Wheat - Oil Exchange Rate, 1950 - 2008 Wheat Production in Saudi Arabia, 1960 - 2009, with Projection to 2016 Grain Harvested Area Per Person in Selected Countries and the World in 1950 and 2000, with Projection to 2050 U.S. Corn Production and Use for Fuel Ethanol, 1980 - 2009 Countries Overpumping Aquifers in 2009 World Irrigated Area and Irrigated Area Per Thousand People, 1950 - 2007 World Population of Cattle, Sheep, and Goats, 1961 - 2007 Livestock and Human Populations in Africa, 1961 - 2007 Livestock and Human Populations in Nigeria, 1961 - 2007 Livestock and Human Populations in China, 1961 - 2007 World Total and Per Person Wild Fish Harvest, 1950 - 2007 Top of Page

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Yet in many parts of the world, such as sub-Saharan Africa, there is also a need for significant increases in energy consumption to improve human development.