Sentence examples for feed mankind from inspiring English sources

Over the next 40 years yields need to rise by around 1.5% a year to feed mankind adequately.

And talking about those who engage in the trafficking of animal parts he will say: "Together they loot our planet, to feed mankind's ignorant craving for pets, trinkets, cures and ornaments derived from the world's vanishing and irreplaceable species".

Their urge to make profits is not necessarily aligned with the wider cause of feeding mankind.

Yet when all is said and done, the world is at the start of a new agricultural revolution that could, for the first time ever, feed all mankind adequately.

In the 1960s and 1970s the population growth rates — then of the same magnitude as those of sub-Saharan Africa today — fostered a number of controversies in the West about the capacity of the earth to feed a constantly growing mankind.

One of the biggest challenges facing mankind is to feed the 9 billion-10 billion people who will be alive and (hopefully) richer in 2050.

"Climate change does now really challenge mankind's ability to feed itself".

Ziska says that he worries about mankind's ability to feed itself in a fast-changing future.

Botanists study how plants produce food and how to increase yields, for example through plant breeding, making their work important to mankind's ability to feed the world and provide food security for future generations.

Was I doing this for mankind, or was I feeding what had become an obsession?

THE world is planting a vigorous new crop: "agro-pessimism", or fear that mankind will not be able to feed itself except by wrecking the environment.