Just to make things more convoluted, food production and distribution is now an internationalised system.
What we need is to make large-scale mechanized food production less carbon-intensive and more sustainable.
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Previous cases also involved the use of gutter oil as cooking oil or in food production.
One is population growth, which will continue to put greater demands on the food production system.
Only then will Japan's food production become competitive and its notoriously high costs fall.
The IAEA is helping countries use nuclear technology to boost food production and fight disease.
Three is the uncertainty of inflation and commodity prices that determine the cost of food production.
But taking a radical new approach to food production is not just the preserve of activists.
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Another is the uncertainty of inflation and commodity prices that determine the cost of food production.
They also say the world's food production systems must be made resilient to climate change.
It seemed half the population was engaged in either banking or artisanal food production.
Inhale's engineers were inspired by myriad sources, including snack food production and rocket science.
In the 1960s, food production was struggling to keep pace with the growing population.
As consumers we're increasingly aware of the effects on the environment of food production methods.
Efforts to boost food production are continuing, as are restraints on credit and speculative investment.
So far, efforts to increase food production in the tropics have been less than successful.
Without them the Iraqis have proved incapable of maintaining food production, let alone increasing it.
On land, the huge patterns of habitat loss have been offset by gains in food production.
We have a food distribution issue in this world, not a food production issue.
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But if the population stays flat, food production would have to rise by only a quarter.
Systems of banking, energy, transportation, food production and delivery, water, emergency services, and even cyberspace would collapse.
According to the World Bank, biotech crops could increase food production in the developing world by 25%.
Its programme of targets for 2012-17 already includes a commitment to promote and support local food production.
With food production per capita declining, the country has to rely on food imports to feed itself.
Hence nanotechnology can be used in food production, most often as nanoparticles of silver in food-preparation equipment.
While waste occurred globally, broader food production problems seem to be more prevalent in less developed areas.
Now Australia's focus is on bushfires again, and the impact it might have on export-oriented food production.
The military has taken over what used to be large-scale commercial farms to try to boost food production.
It is off-shoring its water footprint by investing in coal fields in Australia and food production in Africa.
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The rich world food production systems depend upon the agricultural commodity giants like Cargill, ADM, Bunge and Dreyfus.
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