With its food supply cut off, the city soon surrendered.

In poor countries, food is lost due to inadequate storage and gaps in the supply chain (for example, a lack of refrigeration) in rich countries, food is also wasted in the supply chain, and consumers throw a lot of food away.

In order to improve food security, especially in some developing countries that remain food insecure, there is a need to significantly increase food supply and improve food distribution through more sustainable agricultural systems.

In the 1950s, food supply was inadequate and the standard of living was generally low.

As food supply growth slowed, demand continued to grow, and not only due to population increase.

Joint crop and food supply assessment missions (CFSAMs) are an important element in FAO WFP collaboration.

On January 12, 2004, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the USDA published new rules banning such materials from the human food supply.

Another benefit to having a basic supply of food storage in the home is for the cost savings.

It shall implement food hygiene policies and look after and inspect the country's sanitation facilities and drinking water supply

Food self sufficiency in staple cereals now stands at 28 on a calorie supply basis, with no signs of growth.

Upon the eruption of World War I, the regime severed supply lines to Palestine and caused a severe food shortage.

There is a scarcity of employment opportunity in the town, and the food supply in the camp is reportedly inadequate.

Most water is used to grow food, so, if a nation s economy is healthy, there is scope for saving water by importing a greater share of food, although every nation will want to maintain some assured food supply for security reasons.

It's because of the way the government commodifies food, and the cheap corn and cheap soy that are pushed into our food supply that makes these non nutrient foods really, really cheap.

As the food supply chain has been transformed, efforts to ensure that it is accessible to all have intensified, with the right to food serving as an important driver of bottom up change.

Food supply has not collapsed (1.5 billion hectares of arable land are being used, but another 2.7 billion hectares are in reserve).

The ECB recently published a report saying that food prices will most likely increase further, because demand is structurally higher than supply.

Checkpoint delays continued to hamper or preclude access to jobs, schools, health care, holy places, an adequate food supply and clean water.

Millions of people simply cannot afford to buy the food that they need, which could still be the case if supply were increased.

The USDA allows these antibiotics, these hormones and these pesticides in our food supply, and the USDA paid for this ad in Time magazine.

Lemurs are hunted for food by the local Malagasy, either for local subsistence or to supply a luxury meat market in the larger cities.

Of course, in very poor countries and regions, where people cannot afford to buy food on world markets, the supply side should not be neglected.

The supply of food for households has generally remained stable however, population displacements and the increase in transportation costs render this situation fragile as many host households find themselves increasingly unable to cope with the rising food prices.

It is likely that this is an adaptation to the seasonality of their food supply, which is limited in the dark winter months under the ice.

The great Indian economist, Amartya Sen, was awarded the Nobel prize for demonstrating that famine is not so much about the availability of food supply, but rather the ability to acquire or entitle oneself to that food through the market.

So I want you to imagine that these nine biscuits that I found in the bin represent the global food supply, okay? We start out with nine.

For example, they argued that, if the food supply was contaminated, the symptoms would have occurred on a house by house basis, not just in particular individuals.

The islands support limited farming, though this is insufficient to supply the needs of islanders, and a significant quantity of fresh food is brought in from Singkil.

Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness

United Nations mine action also focused on the verification and clearance of the Juba Yei corridor to resume the vital supply of food into Juba by road.

But the same economic stimuli that underpin higher food output also lead to supply problems, a decline in living standards, and massive social strains, especially in urban centers.

In the Philippines, the small political party Alliance for Rural Concerns introduced House Bill 4747 in 2008 with the aim of having aspartame banned from the food supply.

But I noticed that most of the food that I was giving my pigs was in fact fit for human consumption, and that I was only scratching the surface, and that right the way up the food supply chain, in supermarkets, greengrocers, bakers, in our homes, in factories and farms, we were hemorrhaging out food.

That water will go then to the farmers, and the farmers will be able to water their plants, and they will be able then to supply society with food.

Just as no government should outsource national security to untrustworthy foreigners, nor should any government permit the national food supply to rely on the supposed vagaries of foreign production.

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If, for example, the world s vegetable supply more than doubled, fresh, healthy food would become more affordable and accessible. Perhaps demand for corn syrup and processed foods would even decline.

The price of food has spiked because of the shortage in supply. It is unclear how patients like Biraj can get back to a normal life with the blockade around.

The strategy of destroying the food supply of the civilian population in an area of conflict has been banned under Article 54 of Protocol I of the 1977 Geneva Conventions.

Bilateral assistance from a number of countries, such as Algeria, Belgium, Italy and Spain, had always helped in the event of disruptions in supply and to enrich the food basket.

These services comprise post harvest systems in the food sector, fibre processing, product innovation and diversification for enhanced market access, and enhancing rural community livelihood through efficient agro supply chains.

In addition, a list of 200 aggregated primary food items has been identified for the purpose of compiling food balance sheets and supply utilization accounts, the statistics and indicators of which play an important role in the monitoring of the progress of the Millennium Development Goals.

However his soldiers were already running short of food and its destruction denied him a useful supply base, adding to the logistics problems caused later by the Russian scorched earth tactics.

The council explicitly notes with concern that many developing countries are experiencing problems related to decreasing catches, while supply of fish is vital for their food security and their economic development.

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