Among the food company bosses present, Nestle chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe is highly critical of the rise in the production of bio-diesel, citing the pressure this puts on food supplies by using up land and water that would otherwise have been used to grow crops for consumption.
Farmers participating in these long-term studies grow coffee as their primary cash crop, along with a variety of food crops for consumption.
In various parts of South Asia including Nepal, grain amaranths have been cultivated as staple crops for consumption as an alternative to cereals by the locals.
Owing almost wholly to the efforts of Shiva and other activists, India has not approved a single genetically modified food crop for human consumption.
Heat and water stress have a devastating impact on plant growth, development, and formation of the yield components of rapeseed/canola, an important oilseed crop for human consumption and a renewable feedstock for biodiesel production.
Despite a high genetic similarity to peach, almonds (Prunus dulcis) have a fleshless fruit and edible kernel, produced as a crop for human consumption.
In other instances, shortages and price inflation occur because farmers who formerly grew crops like vegetables for consumption plant different crops that can be used for fuel.
With its former coalition partners in the Green Party out of the way for the time being Ireland's ruling Fianna Fáil Party has announced that it is reversing the country's voting stance on a key European Union decision that will remove a ban on the use of genetically modified crops for human consumption, animal feeds, and food ingredients.
In addition, the cultivation of crops for human consumption on wastewater-irrigated soil can potentially lead to the uptake and accumulation of trace metals in the edible plant parts resulting potential risk to human (Rattan et al. 2005; Xue et al. 2012; Ahmad et al. 2016; Zia et al. 2016).
Now, instead of growing crops for local consumption, farmers began growing crops for export.
