And it will produce a food crop.

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

Together they grow their own food.

Indigenous African food crops and other useful plants

One more subject.

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

Food crops include rice, corn, ground nuts, soybeans, cassava and vegetables. 30

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

Noting that efforts are currently aimed at increasing the production of food crops for local consumption,

Extermination of illicit crops

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

As populations grow, biotechnology can help raise the productivity of major food crops.

So it could make a lot of sense growing food for people where they are going to live in the city.

Newent in the Forest of Dean big polytunnel they built for the school the kids are learning how to grow food.

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

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.

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C. Non food relief items

From morning commutes to the way fashion is designed to the way we grow food, we are consuming and collaborating once again.

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

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

The food situation is expected to be exacerbated further in 2005 because of the poor crop harvest in September October 2004.

International cooperation in illicit crop eradication and alternative development

Responsible for the sector of non food relief items.

However, it is not capable of providing food supplements.

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

The objective of the project is to help the Government in its effort to assist populations affected by the war and support the increase of food crop production.

Noting that efforts in American Samoa are currently aimed at increasing the production of food crops for local consumption,

Both of those databases are computerized and are used in regular publications, such as Food Outlook, Food Crops and Shortages and Food Aid in Figures.

Towards the end of each planting season, field missions are dispatched to assess the food supply and nutritional situation in the country, the level of food crops produced locally and the likely supplies of imported food and food aid.

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.

The purpose is to raise food crop production to the level of importance given to cash crops in most national agriculture policies.

The objective of the project was to provide to the Government, donors and the international community an updated assessment of the crop, food supply and agricultural rehabilitation needs for the forthcoming year.

And those who remain in the village can shift over to cash crops to send food to the new growing markets in town.

The establishment of a network of regional illicit crop monitoring experts based in Afghanistan, Myanmar and Peru contributed to the effective implementation of the illicit crop monitoring programme in the field.

International cooperation in illicit crop eradication and alternative development

International cooperation in illicit crop eradication and alternative development

International cooperation in illicit crop eradication and alternative development

Contributions for non food activities amounted to 20 million.

In contrast, production of tradeable goods largely based on primary commodities in Africa has tended to work against women, who predominate in the production of non tradeable food crops.

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