This document discusses several factors that have contributed to increasing global food prices, including population growth outpacing food production, natural disasters negatively impacting supply, and the increasing production of ethanol fuel which uses crops that could otherwise be used for food. It notes that some experts have predicted global food shortages if these trends continue and solutions are not implemented. The document provides background on these issues and their economic impacts on the supply and demand of food worldwide.
The future of food and agriculture: Trends and challengesFAO
Description: the presentation features main findings and highlights of the report “The future of food and agriculture: Trends and challenges”. The report sheds some light on the nature of the challenges that agriculture and food systems are facing now and throughout the 21st century. It provides some insights as to what is at stake and what needs to be done.
http://www.fao.org/3/a-i6583e.pdf
Food is life and the global food sustainability is essential to human being survival. The global food system is highly
complex and is driven by various factors including environment, cultural, social and economic drive. It is vital to understand
these drivers and their interaction in order to help to improve the public food sustainability policies. Global polices and projects
desperately required in order improving the global food sustainability. Food sustainability is one of the unsolved global issues
and great commitment is required starting from global policy makers, national governments, and every individual home. This
research paper includes analysis and study of various elements such as global change science, policy, food crisis, factor affecting
and challenging food security, data on status and future projection and potential ways of solving problems. The goal of food
sustainability is to enable all people throughout the world to satisfy their basic needs and have a reasonable quality of life without
compromising the quality of life of future generations. Agriculture sustainability is the best solution which can feed the world
without compromising the environment or threatening human health. Scientific evidence that global environment has changed
is overwhelming and indisputable. These phenomena have a direct impact on agriculture which in turn affects food
sustainability. The food price is always toward upward trend which is validated by the periodic average global food price
monitoring report released by the Food and agricultural organizations. The factors affecting and challenging the food security
are many including increased food consumption due to population increase, uneven distribution, changes in living styles, limited
resources, environmental problems, economic problems and others. The potential ways to solve food sustainability need to be
established and implemented effectively across the world.
Global food crisis-a most devastating phenomena: causes, severity and outlook...Vijay Keraba
global food crisis is becoming a very serious and most devastating phenomena of mankind. it need to be stopped, or else our next generation will witness a viral evil, food crisis.
A short presentation to accompany a lesson on global food and water security. Blog post with more information about the lesson can be found on eternalexploration.wordpress.com
The future of food and agriculture: Trends and challengesFAO
Description: the presentation features main findings and highlights of the report “The future of food and agriculture: Trends and challenges”. The report sheds some light on the nature of the challenges that agriculture and food systems are facing now and throughout the 21st century. It provides some insights as to what is at stake and what needs to be done.
http://www.fao.org/3/a-i6583e.pdf
Food is life and the global food sustainability is essential to human being survival. The global food system is highly
complex and is driven by various factors including environment, cultural, social and economic drive. It is vital to understand
these drivers and their interaction in order to help to improve the public food sustainability policies. Global polices and projects
desperately required in order improving the global food sustainability. Food sustainability is one of the unsolved global issues
and great commitment is required starting from global policy makers, national governments, and every individual home. This
research paper includes analysis and study of various elements such as global change science, policy, food crisis, factor affecting
and challenging food security, data on status and future projection and potential ways of solving problems. The goal of food
sustainability is to enable all people throughout the world to satisfy their basic needs and have a reasonable quality of life without
compromising the quality of life of future generations. Agriculture sustainability is the best solution which can feed the world
without compromising the environment or threatening human health. Scientific evidence that global environment has changed
is overwhelming and indisputable. These phenomena have a direct impact on agriculture which in turn affects food
sustainability. The food price is always toward upward trend which is validated by the periodic average global food price
monitoring report released by the Food and agricultural organizations. The factors affecting and challenging the food security
are many including increased food consumption due to population increase, uneven distribution, changes in living styles, limited
resources, environmental problems, economic problems and others. The potential ways to solve food sustainability need to be
established and implemented effectively across the world.
Global food crisis-a most devastating phenomena: causes, severity and outlook...Vijay Keraba
global food crisis is becoming a very serious and most devastating phenomena of mankind. it need to be stopped, or else our next generation will witness a viral evil, food crisis.
A short presentation to accompany a lesson on global food and water security. Blog post with more information about the lesson can be found on eternalexploration.wordpress.com
Great Report on the status of British Food production - complied by some of the UK Thought leaders on the Global Food System
In Conclusion :
The quote fro Prof Tim Benton - Head of Strategic Research University of Leeds
"A globalised food system drives efficiency, scale and specialisation and, in turn, drives diets towards the commodity crops – calorie rich but nutrient poor – with its implications for health. Increased productivity has led to the degradation of soils, loss of biodiversity, and homogenisation of the countryside. Increased imports means that often, in return for cheaper food, we ‘export’ the environmental costs of production. Furthermore, over-reliance on global markets has led to a situation in which there are some inherent systemic risks in the system the magnitude of which are only just coming to light."
• This will protect our farming economy, our environment, and lead to more clarity about where our food comes from.
• The UK can never – and should not aim to be – self- sufficient in food production.
Conclusion
• However, it makes sense to hedge our bets and build a more resilient system, by growing our local production to provide more food, and more diverse food, to the nation.
Prof Kym Anderson's talk from the Australian Agricultural & Resource Economics Society's event "Reframing the Food Agenda: Setting the Scene for Australia" held August 19, 2011
"The world's 200 wealthiest people have as much money as about 40% of the global population, and yet 850 million people have to go
to bed hungry every night."
Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s socialist president: “The problem is not the production of food … it is the economic, social and political model of the world. The capitalist model is in crisis.”
Protein is critical to Human health . An estimated 2 billion people suffer from undernutrition - a lack of access to key micronutrients
- Resulting in major health risks .Those in the worlds poorest countries remain vulnerable to malnutrition .
The Protein Challenge an Initiative of the WWF ( world wildlife fund) , Gain (The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition ) , industrial partner Quorn - Volac - Hershey - Target- Waitrose
Former Senator Richard G. Lugar's remarks for the 2009 BASIS Conference on "Escaping Poverty Traps: Connecting the Chronically Poor to the Economic Growth Agenda."
Explains the concept of food security,describes the challenges it is facing at global level and comes up with a set of recommendations to respond to these challenges at country level and at the global level
Very much interested in public policies as it affects community members greatly. This slide explains policy options that can be taken to address food security in the country.
Great Report on the status of British Food production - complied by some of the UK Thought leaders on the Global Food System
In Conclusion :
The quote fro Prof Tim Benton - Head of Strategic Research University of Leeds
"A globalised food system drives efficiency, scale and specialisation and, in turn, drives diets towards the commodity crops – calorie rich but nutrient poor – with its implications for health. Increased productivity has led to the degradation of soils, loss of biodiversity, and homogenisation of the countryside. Increased imports means that often, in return for cheaper food, we ‘export’ the environmental costs of production. Furthermore, over-reliance on global markets has led to a situation in which there are some inherent systemic risks in the system the magnitude of which are only just coming to light."
• This will protect our farming economy, our environment, and lead to more clarity about where our food comes from.
• The UK can never – and should not aim to be – self- sufficient in food production.
Conclusion
• However, it makes sense to hedge our bets and build a more resilient system, by growing our local production to provide more food, and more diverse food, to the nation.
Prof Kym Anderson's talk from the Australian Agricultural & Resource Economics Society's event "Reframing the Food Agenda: Setting the Scene for Australia" held August 19, 2011
"The world's 200 wealthiest people have as much money as about 40% of the global population, and yet 850 million people have to go
to bed hungry every night."
Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s socialist president: “The problem is not the production of food … it is the economic, social and political model of the world. The capitalist model is in crisis.”
Protein is critical to Human health . An estimated 2 billion people suffer from undernutrition - a lack of access to key micronutrients
- Resulting in major health risks .Those in the worlds poorest countries remain vulnerable to malnutrition .
The Protein Challenge an Initiative of the WWF ( world wildlife fund) , Gain (The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition ) , industrial partner Quorn - Volac - Hershey - Target- Waitrose
Former Senator Richard G. Lugar's remarks for the 2009 BASIS Conference on "Escaping Poverty Traps: Connecting the Chronically Poor to the Economic Growth Agenda."
Explains the concept of food security,describes the challenges it is facing at global level and comes up with a set of recommendations to respond to these challenges at country level and at the global level
Very much interested in public policies as it affects community members greatly. This slide explains policy options that can be taken to address food security in the country.
Конференция Реммерс: Юрген Виллен («Willen Associates») - "Новейшие архитекту...Remmers Russia
Юрген Виллен (Juergen CB Willen, управляющий архитектурного бюро «Willen Associates») представил доклад о новейших архитектурных требованиях в защите памятников архитектуры.
5 октября в рамках выставки «denkmal, Москва» 2015 прошла международная конференция по охране памятников архитектуры в России, организованная компанией Remmers на тему: «ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННЫЙ И МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫЙ ОПЫТ В СФЕРЕ СОХРАНЕНИЯ И РЕСТАВРАЦИИ ОБЪЕКТОВ ИСТОРИКО-КУЛЬТУРНОГО НАСЛЕДИЯ РОССИИ».
Конференция Реммерс проходила при поддержке Департамента культурного наследия г. Москвы, Департамента внешнеэкономических и международных связей г. Москвы, Академии архитектуры и строительных наук, АНО «Национальная Гильдия Хранителей Наследия».
Конференцию посетили ведущие российские и мировые эксперты в области архитектуры, представители правительства Москвы, проектировщики, реставраторы, а также общественные деятели государственных организаций.
www.remmers.ru
Digi Office työpajan 3, jonka aiheena oli resurssit, yhteenveto kommentoitavaksi. Työpaja pidettiin 6.6.2016 ja yhteenveto on kommentoitavana 13.6.2016 asti.
Global food crisis: causes severity and outlookVijay Keraba
Most immediate are the urgent hunger needs in over 37 developing countries, 20 of which are LDCs.
The global food crisis undermines one of the most fundamental human rights – “The right to be free from hunger and malnutrition.”
The 3 billion people living on $2 or less spend between 50 - 80% on food.
Food prices have increased by 83% in just three years.
The price increase has been observed particularly very sharp for staple food crops.
In June-Sept, 2012,
Price of maize increased by 50%
That of wheat increased by 45%
And price of soybean by 40%
“Rebellion of the Hungry”
From Mexico to Pakistan, food prices have doubled in three years and have sparked riots in numerous countries.
Cameroon, Africa- a strike over high fuel prices changed to protest about food prices, 20 people dead.
Egypt - at least 70 people killed, riots due to high price of bread.
The Sunday Herald described the world’s food situation as:
” The Biggest Crisis of the 21st Century”
A description of the disparity that exists in the current global food market and how this system results in scarcity and abundance in various parts of the world. Highlights inefficiences and unfairness in the agricultural industrial model and suggests remedies to this model.
The food price crises amplifies preexisting inequalities in food distribution and quality globally
Beyond temporary shocks, the food system is undergoing long-term changes that affect everyone, particularly the poor.
Read more about Bioversity International’s work on diet diversity for nutrition and health
http://www.bioversityinternational.org/research-portfolio/diet-diversity/
The Food Movement, RisingJUNE 10, 2010Michael Pollan.docxarnoldmeredith47041
The Food Movement, Rising
JUNE 10, 2010
Michael Pollan
Getty Images
Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
by Joel Salatin
Polyface, 338 pp., $23.95 (paper)
All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America?
by Joel Berg
Seven Stories, 351 pp., $22.95 (paper)
Eating Animals
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Little, Brown, 341 pp., $25.99
Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable Food Communities
by Carlo Petrini, with a foreword by Alice Waters
Chelsea Green, 155 pp., $20.00 (paper)
The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society
by Janet A. Flammang
University of Illinois Press, 325 pp., $70.00; $25.00 (paper)
1.
Food Made Visible
It might sound odd to say this about something people deal with at
least three times a day, but food in America has been more or less
invisible, politically speaking, until very recently. At least until the
early 1970s, when a bout of food price inflation and the appearance
of books critical of industrial agriculture (by Wendell Berry, Francis
Moore Lappé, and Barry Commoner, among others) threatened to
propel the subject to the top of the national agenda, Americans have
not had to think very hard about where their food comes from, or
what it is doing to the planet, their bodies, and their society.
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Michelle Obama at a farmers’ market near the
White House, September 17, 2009
Most people count this a blessing. Americans spend a smaller
percentage of their income on food than any people in history
—slightly less than 10 percent—and a smaller amount of their time preparing it: a mere thirty-one
minutes a day on average, including clean-up. The supermarkets brim with produce summoned from
every corner of the globe, a steady stream of novel food products (17,000 new ones each year) crowds
the middle aisles, and in the freezer case you can find “home meal replacements” in every conceivable
ethnic stripe, demanding nothing more of the eater than opening the package and waiting for the
microwave to chirp. Considered in the long sweep of human history, in which getting food dominated
not just daily life but economic and political life as well, having to worry about food as little as we do,
or did, seems almost a kind of dream.
The dream that the age-old “food problem” had been largely solved for most Americans was sustained
by the tremendous postwar increases in the productivity of American farmers, made possible by cheap
fossil fuel (the key ingredient in both chemical fertilizers and pesticides) and changes in agricultural
policies. Ask.
Agricultural biotechnology and the economics of food security and climate cha...ExternalEvents
Agricultural biotechnology and the economics of food security and climate change mitigation presentation by "Daniel Sumner, University of California Davis, Davis, United States of America
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Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Goodbye Windows 11: Make Way for Nitrux Linux 3.5.0!SOFTTECHHUB
As the digital landscape continually evolves, operating systems play a critical role in shaping user experiences and productivity. The launch of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 marks a significant milestone, offering a robust alternative to traditional systems such as Windows 11. This article delves into the essence of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, exploring its unique features, advantages, and how it stands as a compelling choice for both casual users and tech enthusiasts.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
Join us as we explore breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges – from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
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