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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The website Caritasgoma.org, for example, highlights some of the local population's distrust of newcomers to the country The Nakivale camp is close to Ugandan villages where farmers grow staple crops.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

This sort of manipulation is now a Kremlin staple.

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.

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.

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.

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.