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

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

It is the key to the worldwide increase in food production since the 1960 s.

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

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

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.

More food can be grown, reducing dependency on other countries for food.

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.

The techniques are known, but Africa s farmers are too poor to get started. With increased help to African farmers to grow more food (as opposed to shipping food aid from the US), it would be possible to double or even triple crop yields.

Malawi has done this for the past three seasons, and has doubled its food production as a result.

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

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.

Likewise, in many parts of the world, tropical rainforest is being cleared for pasture land and food crops. The result is massive loss of habitat and destruction of species, yielding a tiny economic benefit at a huge social cost.

Investments in agriculture, such as subsidized fertilizers and seeds, increases food harvest and reduces food prices.

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.

Higher yields and lower production costs have reduced global commodity prices (corn, soybeans, and derivatives), resulting in higher farm income, enhanced supplies of food and feed products, and more readily available high quality calories.

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

But many poor countries can grow more food themselves, because their farmers are producing far below what is technologically possible.

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

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

He is considered the father of the fertilizer industry for his discovery of nitrogen as an essential plant nutrient, and his formulation of the Law of the Minimum which described the effect of individual nutrients on crops.

Where species, like the buff throated sunbird, breed in the dry season, it is thought to be associated with the flowering of favoured food plants.

Conscious of the huge material losses sustained to crops, homes, basic infrastructure and tourist and other areas,

Beyond food aid, we need to invest in food security, livelihoods and basic services.

Some say that the miracle stemmed from an agricultural revolution that freed a large chunk of the labor force to make things rather than grow food.

Investments in soil nutrients and water harvesting could help African farmers double or triple their food yields. Anti retroviral medicines can help save millions from death due to AIDS.

The hunger crisis can be overcome in poor countries if they get help to grow more food.

Yet, despite such shortcomings, it is clear that areas we use for roads cannot be used for growing food, and that areas we use to build our houses takes away from forests.

In addition to the massive refugee problem, the new government sought to save abandoned crops, establish security in a chaotic situation, and provide basic services.

The fact is that assessment of food requirements in Bosnia and Herzegovina representing only 34 per cent of the poverty line amount shows that food expenses account to a large extent for essential needs.

The court ruled that a series of social programs should be expanded, in order to provide a basic nutritional floor for all.

All scientific studies of such interventions prove that fortification of basic foodstuffs works.

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.

As a result, they grow food the traditional way, often earning little or nothing from their harvest, because it s not even enough to keep their families alive.

Recent inflation in many countries has been the result of higher commodity prices, especially fuel and food prices.

Investment in infrastructure for transport, storage, and marketing of food is badly needed, as are programs to train farmers in best practices.

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

In exchange for food and shelter, ants aid the myrmecophyte in pollination, seed dispersal, gathering of essential nutrients, and or defense.

The crop prices used by Iran in calculating the value of lost crops are not appropriate for estimating the value of crops that were not, in fact, produced.

With more than 9,400 fans on Facebook, its call for action on March 1 helped collect 489 donations, including clothing, shoes, sheets, pillows, mosquito nets, kitchen utensils, and staple products like rice, oil, and corn.

The interventions build on commodities and the related secondary agro processing industries with emphasis on food (e.g. fish, meat, dairy, vegetable oils) and non food (wood and non wood forest products, textiles and garments, leather and skins) products.

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.

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.

Iran estimates the alleged reduction in crop quality by comparing crop prices in the Southern Provinces in 1991 with national crop prices.