Likewise, food scarcity is a growing problem for Asian countries, with crop yields and overall food production growing more slowly than demand.

(e) Crop production

These systems in turn produced crop yields that could sustain much higher population densities than competing methods of food production.

Not only would this reduce hunger by increasing food production and lowering food prices it would also protect biodiversity, because higher crop productivity would mean less deforestation.

The projects focus mainly on fisheries, poultry production, nutrition, crop production, forestry and livestock raising.

p1 average olive oil production of the last six crop years

FAO, in conjunction with the Ministry of Agriculture, UNMIL and several international non governmental organizations, undertook a food monitoring and assessment exercise throughout the country to identify shortfalls in crop production and their implications for food security.

GIEWS has been providing regular bulletins on food crop production and markets at the global level and situation reports on a regional and country by country basis since 1975.

Iran estimates its crop losses by comparing the actual production of each crop in each of the affected provinces during 1991 with the expected production of those crops, based on a statistical analysis of crop yields over a period of 11 years from 1986 to 1996.

Food is given to the larvae by trophallaxis, a process in which an ant regurgitates liquid food held in its crop.

For the fifth consecutive year, rain shortfalls resulted in crop failure and poor livestock production.

By using high yield seeds, better soil management, and proper row planting, the community has more than tripled its crop production, and villagers who previously were hungry grain buyers are now food secure grain sellers.

Food production is not enough and diversified.

The number of farmers reached by such schemes in illicit crop production areas is still insufficient.

Joint crop and food supply assessment missions (CFSAMs) are an important element in FAO WFP collaboration.

Involving African women in decision making about crop production turns out to enable environmentally sustainable farming practices.

Changes in China's food production system are generating an awareness of food safety problems.

The livelihood component includes learning processes concerning skills development involving existing alternative sources of income such as abaca fibre production, handicraft making and cash crop production.

Government support of rapid growth in biofuel production has contributed to disarray in food production.

These are places where water is so scarce year after year that crop production is marginal at best.

Meanwhile, the benefits of GM crop cultivation include higher yields, lower use of chemical pesticides, and biofuel production.

Agriculture also created food surpluses that could support people not directly engaged in food production.

IFAD funded a program to kick start food production.

The fundamental objective of the International Year of Rice implementation is to promote improved production and access to this vital food crop, which feeds more than half the world's population while providing income for millions of rice producers, processors and traders.

An estimated one third of global food production is wasted.

The chapter on climate change and food production surveys recent scientific literature, with a view to assessing the overall impacts that global warming could have on food production.

For example, food prices are increasing alongside soaring oil prices, partly because of increased production costs, but also because farmland in the United States and elsewhere is being converted from food production to bio fuel production.

These conditions render the rural population vulnerable to the influence of drug trafficking and increase dependence on illicit crop production.

Biodiversity is essential for reliable and stable long term food production.

To facilitate food production, cities have established community based farming projects.

But chronic hunger remains pervasive, particularly in developing countries, which are affected most by crop shortages and food price volatility.

Overview The wild relatives of crop plants constitute an increasingly important resource for improving agricultural production and for maintaining sustainable agro ecosystems.

The symposium, held in Brussels, looked at the future of the rice crop in terms of improving its production and enhancing nutrition

For each crop, Iran calculates the compensation sought by multiplying the decrease in production in 1991, which it considers to be the result of Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait, by the market price of that crop.

The most important industries in Crimea include food production, chemical fields, mechanical engineering and metal working, and fuel production industries.

Our vision is local manufacturing, like the local food movement, for production.

Unlike Asia, Africa did not have a Green Revolution in food production.

Important industries in the area include food processing, textile and tyre production.

As the main component of the Central African GDP (32.2 per cent in 2002), the food crop sector, which is highly diversified, is the country's main centre of economic growth and potentially its most competitive sector, provided effective production, transformation and export measures are implemented.

As farmers, mothers, educators, and innovators, women provide a critical link between food production, consumption, and future progress on food security.

ROME Every year, we waste or lose 1.3 billion metric tons of food one third of the world s annual food production.

It allows countries that can produce food efficiently to ship it to those which face resource limitations that hinder food production.

That said, many African countries are not self sufficient in food production, relying on income from cash crops to import food.

Some of the things that emerge from it are local food projects, like community supported agriculture schemes, urban food production, creating local food directories, and so on.

With serious management of the new funds, food production in Africa will soar.