Sentences with phrase «world over the past few decades»

Due to the rising population and change in diet in some regions of the world over the past few decades, such as India and China, the demand for renewable resources increased and thus the pressure to produce as much food as possible.

Not exact matches

The increases in crop yields seen over the past few decades are starting to slow, and the world's population is still rocketing up.

This is because international trade has increased rapidly over the past few decades as the world economy has become more developed and globalized — notwithstanding the flattening of the global trade - to - GDP ratio over the past few years.

«Over the past decade, more of those admitted to the US have been Christians than those of any other faith background, so the dramatic reduction in refugee arrivals this year means far fewer persecuted Christians will have the opportunity to rebuild their lives in safety in the US,» World Relief president Scott Arbeiter said last summer.

The foundation of real reform is the recognition the world has changed over the past few decades.

In any case, even if the libertarian - minded succeed in taking control of the debate on the Right, it still won't guarantee the long - term success of their ideology: the real world is dangerously messy, and we've seen a lot of evidence over the past few decades that perfect ideas don't always work as planned when they're applied to actual people (see: markets, free).

Still, Action on Sugar does have the potential to significantly improve health in the UK, which, like much of the rest of the world, has seen steadily climbing obesity levels over the past few decades.

As the world has warmed over the past few decades, climate scientists have increasingly sounded the alarm over the potentially catastrophic impacts that warming could have on the world's weather.

Over the past few decades, the Institute of Geography has remainedone of the world - renowned scientific centres working on the problems of desertification, land degradation and drought.

In fact, that's the approach Walmart has taken in the past few decades to expand its retail chain all over the world.

Bali has been a popular tourist destination for travelers from all over the world, but especially Australians and Americans, for the past few decades.

Despite the company and its partners making some incredibly impressive showcases over the past few years with its Unreal Engine 4 middleware, founder Tim Sweeney believes that the industry is still «two decades» away from videogames that are identical to the real world.

Over the past few decades, German artist Thomas Bayrle has quietly laid the seeds for much of what fascinates us about contemporary art's engagement with the worlds of popular culture, standardisation and global culture today.

Over the past few decades, a US - based Dutch businessman, Bert Kreuk, has assembled one of the most impressive collections of contemporary art anywhere in the world.

In the past few years, the art world has begun to more graciously reward artists who have honed their practice over previous decades, while remaining inexplicably under - the - radar.

In the past few years, the art world has begun to more graciously reward artists who have honed their practice over previous decades, while remaining inexplicably under - the - radar — artists like these 10 members of The Artsy Vanguard, who are finally getting their due.

On a related issue — the temperature in Almeria, Spain (southeast corner), which has the world's greatest concentration of greenhouses, with reflective roofs (seen from space), the temperature is said to have dropped 0.3 C over the past few decades, while in the rest of Spain, it has risen 0.6 C.

Ocean Champions is one group I've seen over the past few decades that has really taken this sort of real - world philosophy and put it into action for the oceans.

Third, the world has made progress in driving down tuberculosis, with 40 percent fewer deaths compared to 1990, and global malaria deaths have declined by nearly a third over the past decade.

The entire developed world is implicated by its dependence upon fossil fuels to function yet some have over the past few decades struggled valiantly to change this while others have fought to keep the status quo.

However, over the past few decades many of the world's best zoos and aquariums have also worked to educate their visitors about conservation issues, in addition to funding and supporting programs in the field to save the ever - growing number of imperiled species.

The best available scientific evidence suggests that changes in the climate observed over the past few decades are likely to accelerate, with implications for the health and welfare of every community around the world and the performance of every sector of the economy.

«Research has suggested that average temperatures may have risen by as much as 3C in some parts of the Antarctic over the past few decades,» said Rod Downie, polar programme manager for the World Wide Fund for Nature.