Essays about: "Food Security and over population"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 25 essays containing the words Food Security and over population.
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11. Climate Adaptation Strategies and Projections on Water Discharge in the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Teknisk vattenresursläraAbstract : The main aim of this thesis is to analyse the climate adaptation strategies regarding water resources in the regional context of the three major riparians of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers: Turkey, Syria and Iraq. The objectives are: to base the analysis on the criteria benefit, consequences and limits to the social as well as the technical factors affecting the water availability and to use WW-HYPE, which is a HBV based model, to support literature on climate projections in the area. READ MORE
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12. From Recognition to Adaptation: How does Forecasting relate to International Aid Funding in Food Security?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och SamhällssäkerhetAbstract : The importance of early adaptation to reduce the impact of recognized risks has been underlined in recent years as featured aspect of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Sendai Framework for Action. The aim of this study is to analyze the relationship between forecasted food insecurity levels and allocated funding directed at food security. READ MORE
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13. Feeding the 45 million : substituting soybean protein with insect protein within EU poultry and egg production
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EcologyAbstract : A global population increasing both in number and in resource consumption per capita has resulted in food, livestock feed and energy crop demands that are increasingly difficult to meet on rapidly degrading soils within a diminishing available area of arable land. With further expansion of agricultural land infeasible and yield increases through further intensification insufficient to meet the scale of predicted crop demand, the use of insects as an animal feed has gained traction as a method of not only reducing competition for arable land, but also some of the detrimental environmental consequences of livestock and conventional feed production. READ MORE
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14. Can urban agriculture become a planning strategy to address social-ecological justice?
University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknikAbstract : Last century witnessed an unprecedented growth of cities which has led to the consolidation of an eminently urbanised world population. Meanwhile, agriculture has adopted industrial methods of production in the shape of large-scale, chemical-laden crops in the countryside, which, together with the liberalisation of global trade, have undermined the livelihood of small-scale peasants throughout the world, forcing many of them out of business. READ MORE
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15. Spatial assessment of NDVI as an indicator of desertification in Ethiopia using remote sensing and GIS
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskapAbstract : Desertification is a serious environmental and socio-economic problem occurring at global, regional and local scale. According to Article 1(a) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), define the term “desertification” means “land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid (dry lands) areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities”. READ MORE
