Crops and food supplies have dwindled, leaving nothing but desperation behind.

Such staple food crops also can be modified to contain additional nutrients.

They are often also responsible for producing an income or food crops.

Likewise, modern energy crops increase deforestation, displace agriculture, and push up food prices.

Millet, rice, corn, and sorghum are the primary food crops grown in Senegal.

Encouraging a shift to legal cash crops and food requires time and heavy investment.

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

Leguminous crops harvested green for food, such as snap peas, snow peas, and so on, are not considered beans, and are classified as vegetable crops.

One more subject. Genetically engineered food crops, in my view, as a biologist, have no reason to be controversial.

Some studies show that women are responsible for 25 of the production of major crops and 30 for food.

This world trading of goods, plants, animals, and food crops saw exchange in the Old World and the New World.

Besides commercial fertilizers and food waste, biogas plants increasingly process energy crops such as cereals, maize (whole plants) and grass.

The 2008 winter planting yielded 5 million in bean crops, helping to improve food security and the incomes of poor farmers.

It will eat a wide range of food plants, depending on availability, including shrubs, pasture, agricultural crops, and native and exotic vegetation.

ROME A severe food crisis currently threatens southern Sudan. In East Africa, where millions of people already are dependent on food aid, a sharp rise in the cost of staple crops looms.

We shall not find a single foot of earth that can be planted with crops to raise food. So it is no use.

In East Africa, where millions of people already are dependent on food aid, a sharp rise in the cost of staple crops looms.

CHICAGO Even as the world becomes more integrated, the word security crops up again and again, as in food security or energy security.

Increased production of agricultural crops for non food purposes offers the opportunity to utilize land that would have otherwise been an unexploited resource.

Undocumented workers pick America s crops, clean Americans houses, and serve Americans their food, but their fate simply does not matter to many US citizens.

Boosting yields of locally grown staple foods (rather than cash crops) would increase self sufficiency and strengthen resilience when international food prices are high.

In the Andean countries, the Office has supported generating agro industries with proven markets, producing cash and food crops, agroforestry productive systems and microenterprises.

CABDA proceeds through specific areas of intervention such as the introduction of drought resistant crops and new methods of food production such as agro forestry.

Meanwhile, vertical farm experiments which aim to augment urban food supplies by cultivating crops in skyscraper greenhouses are proliferating from the American Midwest to Osaka, Japan.

Before independence from Portugal in 1975, Angola had a flourishing tradition of family based farming and was self sufficient in all major food crops except wheat.

Ethiopia noted that the growth of its economy is highly influenced by climate variability, particularly drought, so one of its agricultural policies is to increase production (both quality and quantity) of food crops to ensure food self sufficiency.

Breakthrough crops, fertilizer subsidies, and aid campaigns may grab the headlines, but it is the right to food movement that holds the greatest promise for ending hunger.

Less than two years ago, Haiti was devastated by a hurricane that caused about 220 million in damage to food crops at a time when the population was also struggling to feed itself because of high world food prices.

Genetically modified crops (GMCs, GM crops, or biotech crops) are plants used in agriculture, the DNA of which has been modified using genetic engineering techniques.

Several factors contributed to the crisis, including high oil prices, high demand for crops from the bio fuel sector, falling global stockpiles of food commodities, and lower cereal production.

In 1995 1996, the size of areas devoted to rapeseed growing for fuel reached 615,000 hectares, representing a large part of the 968,000 hectares devoted to non food crops.

According to other information received, rising unemployment and falling incomes, along with restrictions on movement and the levelling of crops and seizure of agricultural land, had resulted in an increase in food insecurity and a decline in food consumption and nutrition levels.

And I'm very excited about this, because one thing we're working on is transforming the technologies that are very available in the food industry to be available for traditional crops.

They started by boiling crops. When the crops finished, they would boil grass and plants...then insects.

But they might also adopt such strategies as reducing agricultural areas under cultivation or switching to less labour intensive but less nutritious crops, thus affecting the food security of the household.

And crops and noble sites

And crops and noble sites

And do they not see that We do drive rain to parched soil ( bare of herbage ) , and produce therewith crops , providing food for their cattle and themselves ? Have they not the vision ?

Fiber crops are field crops grown for their fibers, which are traditionally used to make paper, cloth, or rope.

Tomato soup, peanut butter, chocolate, noodles any processed food that you're eating contains insects, because insects are here all around us, and when they're out there in nature they're also in our crops.

Mushrooms are not among common crops in Syria, and are rarely featured in local cuisine, but their relative benefits have made them an appealing source of food for many in besieged Eastern Ghouta.

For reuse on food crops, waste water may require advanced tertiary treatment, which can be substantially more costly than the secondary treatment needed for safe discharge into watercourses or other less sensitive uses.

And critics have expressed concern about the environmental impact of corn and other crops grown for industrial purposes, such as plastics and ethanol production, not to mention the potential effects on global food prices.

Have they not seen how We drive water ( rain clouds ) to the dry land without any vegetation , and therewith bring forth crops providing food for their cattle and themselves ? Will they not then see ?

Coca crops in Latin America need to be replaced with agricultural crops, and cocaine use in affluent Europe must be reduced.