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.

Key staple food crops, such as sorghum, cassava and plantains, will be selected as appropriate to each of the three major agro ecological zones in Africa.

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.

Indigenous African food crops and other useful plants

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.

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.

Drug crops are smaller and sometimes hidden in food plantations.

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,

Prices of food, even staple foods, have shot up beyond the reach of average citizens.

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

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

The coconut palm and breadfruit tree provide the main food crops.

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All crops grown on the island are food or fodder crops, but the island is not self sufficient in these products.

They are often also responsible for producing an income or food crops.

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

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

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.

Women apos s role in maintaining bio diversity (food, crops) will be considered.

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

The special programme on food production in support of food security in low income food deficit countries sought to expand both productivity and total production of staple foods in target countries.

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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.

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.

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

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