Liberia imports 90 of its rice, a staple food, and is extremely vulnerable to food shortages.

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

Rice is the staple food for more than half the world's population.

Furthermore, as rice is the preferred staple for Koreans, food insecure families can barter their rice rations for larger quantities of maize less popular staple and thus obtain more food for the family.

Noting that rice is the staple food of more than half of the world's population,

Noting that the potato is a staple food in the diet of the world's population,

Noting that the potato is a staple food in the diet of the world's population,

In Germany, the Oldenburg Model United Nations organized a special conference on rice as a staple food.

Fried rice is a common staple in American Chinese cuisine, especially in the form sold as fast food.

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

ROME The prices of many staple foods increased dramatically during 2007 2008, creating a food crisis for many poor and developing countries.

In particular, governments must invest in nutrition through budgets, introduce mandatory fortification of staple foods, curb junk food, and improve quality control.

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

Porridge, gruel and later, bread, became the basic food staple that made up the majority of calorie intake for most of the population.

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.

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

Africa Increases in food and fertilizer prices have underlined the vulnerability of poor urban and rural households in many developing countries, especially in Africa, renewing policymakers' focus on the need to increase staple food crop productivity.

Rice, a staple food in the country and most parts of Asia, accounts for one third of Singaporeans' average calorie intake, while sugary canned drinks make up a mere 3.5 percent.

This sort of manipulation is now a Kremlin staple.

Batch to batch, crust to crust ... In tribute to the beloved staple food, baking master Peter Reinhart reflects on the cordial couplings that give us our daily bread. Try not to eat a slice.

Three billion people depend on rice as their staple food, with 10 at risk for vitamin A deficiency, which, according to the World Health Organization, causes 250,000 500,000 children to go blind each year.

Governments lose their legitimacy when they cannot guarantee their populations most basic needs safe drinking water, staple food crops, and fodder and water for the animal herds on which communities depend for their meager livelihoods.

When without a stapler, a staple and a ruler will work

Rupjmaize is a dark bread made from rye, considered the national staple.

Still, many associations have come forward to provide first aid kits and staple foods.

The song became a staple in their repertoire until the band's end in 1995.

National and international trade and book fairs were used as grounds for promoting rice marketing and nutrition, stimulating interest in various rice technologies, disseminating information to the general public and increasing awareness of the role and importance of rice as a staple food.

With the fall of Calais to the French, in 1558, the staple moved again to Bruges.

Annual maize production, the basic staple, is one third of what it was several years ago.

But now the question of Europe s borders has become a staple of debate in the European Union.

To be sure, handing out vitamin pills or adding vitamin A to staple products can make a difference.

As rye bread is the staple one in Finland, the competition among the brands remains fierce to this day.

The importance of bread as a daily staple meant that bakers played a crucial role in any medieval community.

They are typically eaten as a staple in northern parts of China where wheat, rather than rice, is grown.

Of course, the reforms announced by the government were the simulated sort that have been a staple of Putin s rule.

It was only later, starting perhaps with the Eichmann trial in 1961, that the Holocaust became a staple of state propaganda.

The mobile library has become a staple in many library systems, bringing books to those who cannot access the libraries themselves.

The fleece staple length is 2 inches (5 cm) to 3.5 inches (9 cm) with a yield of 50 to 62 .

Now one third of all arable land is used to grow crops to feed livestock, not to grow staple crops for people.

Bufallo milk, a staple of the diet here, is also boiled over reed fires and turned into a thick cream to be sold.

Afghans living abroad often report peculiar nan cravings, including toothache from eating the softer sliced bread that cannot compare to their beloved staple.

In fiction Futures and futuristic alien civilizations in which some or all infectious diseases have been eradicated are a staple of science fiction.

There is West Indian Chinese food, there's Jamaican Chinese food, there is Middle Eastern Chinese food, there's Mauritian Chinese food.

So bread has become from a main staple, a source of calories associated with obesity and also a source of modernity, of modern life.

Rausing, who had studied in New York at the beginning of the 1920s, had seen self service grocery stores in the United States, which was unheard of in Europe at the time, and realised that pre packaging was part of the future in food retailing as a more hygienic and practical way of distributing staple groceries.