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The question addressed in this brief concerns how can governments pursue food systems transformation in the face of severe financial constraints, financial shocks and food-price crises...
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consumer behaviour management of resources
Demand for water, food, energy, land and minerals is rising substantially, making natural resources increasingly scarce and more expensive.
The majority of resources used today are non-renewable and are set to become increasingly scarce given rising demand and unsustainable consumption patterns. Global material extraction...
Globally, the absolute number of undernourished people has been on the rise since 2014, reaching an estimated 821 million people (some 11% of the population) in 2017. In 2017, some...
If present trends continue, human demand on the Earth's ecosystem is projected to exceed nature's capacity to regenerate by about 75% by 2020, and by 100% (meaning that we would...
While scarcity of resources is still a threat, we also have generativity of new ideas, technologies and alternative resources. The interplay of energy security and markets, technologies and policies...
Research for less polluting, abundant and more efficient alternative materials should be encouraged.
Virtual water and other natural resources consumption, as well as pollution impacts should be factored into the price of products (most of all imported products, which should...