food production
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffoodandproduction
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food
noun[C or U]
uk/fuːd/us/fuːd/
something that people and animals eat, or plants absorb, to keep ...
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production
noun
uk/prəˈdʌk.ʃən/us/prəˈdʌk.ʃən/
the process of making or growing goods to ...
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(Definition offoodandproductionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoffood production
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Finding answers to this question would clearly help to reverse the declining trend in localfoodproductionand agricultural biodiversity.
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Our models demonstrate that organic agriculture can contribute substantially to a more sustainable system offoodproduction.
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In some regions increased production also impinged uponfoodproduction.
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The category offoodproductionincludes commodities that are considered edible and that contain nutrients.
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But where and on what scale irrigation, fertilisers, and herbicides would be allocated forfoodproductionon newly freed up cane land remained obscure.
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This imposed a powerful restriction on the additional area that could be devoted tofoodproduction.
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The theme is the balance sheet between growth in human population and growth infoodproduction.
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The results show that in the case of the hypothetical conversion to organic farming,foodproductiondecreases in absolute numbers.
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Since most of these goods have to be imported, they are omitted from the furtherfoodproduction/food consumption comparison.
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In addition, growth in worldfoodproductionsince 1960 has exceeded the world's population growth, by an annual rate of approximately 0.6 per cent.
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Others describe organic agriculture as a useful and complex example of the way in which nature features in contemporaryfoodproductionand consumption8,9.
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This early-stage animal-product crafting was likely done in the room most often associated withfoodproduction.
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Under these difficult conditions,foodproductionpermanently lags behind demand.
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Whilefoodproductionwas burdensome, it was also the center of women's power.
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Whether the trend towards extensification of management continues in the longer term will depend on the overall pressures on national and globalfoodproduction.
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When these fluctuations affect human health orfoodproduction, they can result in anthropogenic intervention, with poorly understood consequences at wider ecological scales.
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Admittedly, this is a rough estimate, probably an underestimate, and it only deals with one aspect of theirfoodproduction.
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