Sentences with phrase «world of growing populations»

One way or another, it's clear that improved efficiency in food production and water use will be needed in a world of growing populations seeking decent lives.

This is a risk I want to explore on Dot Earth because it's one of the potential «hard knocks» we face in a world of growing populations and mobility.

Not exact matches

The 34 - year - old married mother of a one - year - old girl had doubts about the government's ability to fund retirement for Japan's growing ranks of elderly in the world's oldest population.

And India and Indonesia, in particular, are key markets for Google — India recently displaced the US to become the second - largest smartphone market in the world in terms of shipments and still has plenty of room for growth; in Indonesia, internet usage is poised to grow, as only 25 % of the country's population currently uses the internet.

Half of the world's population live in cities, and that share is growing rapidly.

Subsidies could also impact your grocery bill in the near future: the diversion of soybeans, corn and other edibles to ethanol production leaves less farmland to feed an every - growing world population.

As the world's population grows, the demand for all forms of energy will increase, including demand for oil and natural gas.

The World Bank reckons that about 4 % of the world's population will still be poor in 2030 if economies continue to grow as quickly as they have in the past ten years and poor people's incomes grow at the same rate as everyone elWorld Bank reckons that about 4 % of the world's population will still be poor in 2030 if economies continue to grow as quickly as they have in the past ten years and poor people's incomes grow at the same rate as everyone elworld's population will still be poor in 2030 if economies continue to grow as quickly as they have in the past ten years and poor people's incomes grow at the same rate as everyone else's.

More and more Canadians appreciate the growing importance of a region that has more than half the world's population, two of its three largest economies, and a widening share of the global...

The combined population of this group represents about 27 % of the world population and it is forecast to grow to a total of almost three - billion people by 2050.

More and more Canadians appreciate the growing importance of a region that has more than half the world's population, two of its three largest economies, and a widening share of the global middle class.

The Third World is in the process of growing according to the principle that misery creates more population.

Margaret Mead has observed that parents of today's youth are parents of the first generation that has grown up entirely in the new world that emerged between 1940 and 1960 — the world of the bomb, the population explosion, the environmental crisis, and the planet - spanning communication grid.

And when it comes to «family values,» we're weary of battles to «protect» marriage from gay couples, when so many young evangelicals have grown up in broken homes, witnessing our parents divorce and remarry at rates just as high as in the non-evangelical world (more than 33 % of marriages among born - again Christians end in divorce, the same as in the general population).

Nasser, while criticized for his politics specifically toward a then growing Israeli population, is widely considered the most successful champion of Pan Arabism, the idea of unifying all countries of the Arab world, from Morocco on the Atlantic Ocean to Oman on the Arabian Sea.

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

Even as I write these words, the newspapers are full of reports that the world is on the very edge of a chasm between food production and the growing population.

An example being how we are to maintain a healthy world economy when fewer and fewer percentages of our population are needed to grow all the food, manufacture all the goods, and service all the needs of society during a time, within the next 60 years, of ultimately a shrinking population.

And Whitman's gnawing fear was expressed in imagery almost identical with that of Jefferson: «If the United States, like the countries of the Old World, are also to grow vast crops of poor, desperate, dissatisfied, nomadic, miserable - waged populations, such as we see looming upon us of late years — steadily, even if slowly, eating into them like cancer of lungs or stomach — then our republican experiment, notwithstanding all its surface - successes, is at heart an unhealthy failure.

«When you think about... the increasing population in the world and our need to grow more food, I think there's lots of opportunity,» he says.

Scientists are concerned production will not keep up with a growing population and the poorest nations will see the greatest consequences of the decline in world's food supply, The Guardian reports.

It is one of only a handful of distilleries in the UK to prepare its own neutral spirit on site and claims to be the only distillery in the world to use populations of sustainably grown ancient heritage grains.

As the world population grows, farmers will not only need to meet increasing demands of food, but also keep nutritional values high.

The food industry widely recognizes a looming mountain it must climb: By 2050, the world population will grow by more than 2 billion, which will require upward of a 70 percent increase in food production.

«It continues to be the largest growing consumer market in the world and so it has the power of population, but that population is growing more affluent, as well.

The population of Bangladesh has grown by more than 10 % in the last 10 years, reaching more than 160m people, and it now accounts for more than 2 % of the world's total population.

In a world where food security is one of the most pressing development challenges, finding immediate ways to address the needs of a growing and rapidly urbanising population, while limiting food losses and waste, is becoming a key priority for our sector.

That's the inference of a new report that says our growing global population will send greenhouse gases into overdrive unless something is done to curb the world's appetite for meat — and links the environmental, health and economic cases for doing so.

As the world population continues to grow, there is a greater need to set goals and develop initiatives to reduce the amount of food wasted.

With 11.2 % of Australia's population now vegetarian, and Australia being the world's third - fastest - growing vegan market, the desire for animal - free packaged foods is changing what consumers select from the retail shelf.

In a world of rising population, increasing cost of food, concerns about inequality and growing food insecurity, food waste is one of the greatest challenges of our time with 30 percent (1.3 billion tons) of food produced being wasted each year.

A growing section of the world population (1.3 billion) depend on fisheries and aquaculture for food and as a source of income, but harmful practices threaten the sector ’s

«The world's growing population has implications for land, environment and resources, so ensuring food systems are fit for the future is one of the biggest challenges of our time.

Irit Tamir of OxFam America outlined seven investments the world needs to make to feed our growing populations, such as investing in women, supporting small - scale farmers and securing everyone's right to water.

It makes the field more diverse and is a worthwhile effort of trying to «grow the game» in different populations around the world.

The Global Food Security programme is the UK's main public funders of food - related research and training are working together through the Global Food Security programme to meet the challenge of providing the world's growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of safe, nutritious, and affordable high - quality food using less land, with lower inputs, and in the context of global climate change, other environmental changes and declining resources.

The World Health Organization Global Network of Age - Friendly Cities and Communities began as an international effort to help communities prepare for a growing aging population.

«It is also a general attack on scientific advances aiming to meet one of the world's biggest challenges - providing safe and nutritious food for a growing global population, whilst reducing the environmental impact of production.»

In Africa alone, the continent with the highest fertility rate and lowest use of modern contraceptives, 26 countries will double their population by 2050, according to the U.N. «Fundamentally if you're looking at World Population Day, it is at heart a women's rights issue,» said Roger - Mark DeSouza director of population, environmental security and resilience at the non-partisan policy Wilson Center, based in Washington, D.C. World Population Day is meant to draw attention to the challenges we face with a human population that is constantly growing.

Ghana has one of the youngest and most rapidly growing population in the world and preparing them for productive jobs was a social and political priority for the Mahama administration.

They want to feed the growing world population, boost our reliance on renewable energy or reduce the burden of global disease.

Rainfall shifts caused by climate change plus the escalating water demands of a growing world population threaten society's ability to meet its mounting needs.

Given that the world population is still growing by about 200,000 people a day, and the ecological footprint of the human race already lies beyond the limits of sustainability, fewer European mega-consumers will be a blessing for the health of the planet — and fewer North Americans would...

Perhaps not enough mileage is made of biotech's low - tech origins — people have been brewing and baking for thousands of years, after all — or that a major driving force for the industry is a growing and ageing world population and its burgeoning need for food, health care, and energy supplies.

Agricultural investments of US $ 30 billion per year are needed to feed the world's growing population

In a world where more than one billion people do not have enough to eat, and our future food security is threatened by climate change and an ever - growing population, it is essential to improve the control of crop diseases like fusarium ear blight around the globe.

Although the actual absolute numbers have increased when compared with 2009 (the year for which there are World Health Organization mortality data for most EU countries) due to the growing numbers of elderly people, the rate (age - standardised per 100,000 of the population) of people who die from the disease has declined from 148.3 male and 89.1 female deaths per 100,000 in 2009 to 138.1 deaths and 84.7 per 100,000 predicted for 2014.

As Hockfield moves into her role as AAAS president, she often makes the point that the challenges facing the world as the population grows to more than 9 billion by 2050 — including the need for improved access to sufficient food, clean water, sustainable energy and health care — can only be met through fundamental scientific and engineering research, accompanied by the translation of that research into market - ready applications.

Amirav's goal is to tweak this process to better suit the energy needs of a world population that by 2050 is expected to reach 9 billion, a growing percentage of which will want to drive their own cars.

The study says that if the world's population grows from 6.8 billion to 9 billion people by 2050 — the UN's «medium - growth» scenario — an extra 1 - 2 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide is likely to be emitted each year, compared with a «low - growth» scenario that leads to 8 billion people by 2050.