(e) Crop production

Cultivation, production and manufacture

Biofertilizers, for example, hold great promise for increasing food productivity.

Industrial production continued to decline, and food production had fallen by 15 per cent in comparison with 1992.

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.

Same dynamic, I'll stop planting other crops.

Production of Main Crops Between 1990 and 1995

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

Another bitter irony was that, in areas that received assistance, neighboring farmers who cultivated food crops soon switched to cultivating poppy because then, too, could then qualify for aid.

After independence economic resources will be channelled into food production for the population.

Currently, efforts are aimed at increasing the production of vegetables and other food crops for local consumption.

Graph showing production of main crops between 1990 and 1995.

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

Such changes will probably be designed principally to maintain or increase local food yields.

Economic recovery has seen this partially reversed, although in most countries food production remains lower now than pre transition. Access to food and efforts to reduce malnutrition have improved in recent years, but these issues still remain significant problems in a number of countries.

The population is mainly engaged in subsistence production of foodcrops such as sweet potatoes, cassava, millet, beans, bananas and groundnuts.

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

The International Fund for Agriculture and Development (IFAD) had played a constructive role in assisting the developing countries to increase their food production capacity and to combat poverty.

The primary sector owes its dynamism to the sub sectors of cash crops, stock raising and forestry.

Although controlling demand was imperative, it was also essential to control the cultivation of drug crops and narcotics production.

Production is linked to underdevelopment it is not enough to promote substitute crops if there is no market outlet for these or if they are unprofitable.

Food riots are mounting.

In the Andean countries, the Office has supported generating agro industries with proven markets, producing cash and food crops, agroforestry productive systems and microenterprises.

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

These include growing cereals and grains engaging in terrace agriculture raising guinea pigs and producing dried bananas.

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(b) Policy options for boosting food supplies

As swathes of land began to dry up because of El Niño, many farmers found themselves unable to produce enough food crops to sell.

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.

GIEWS has been providing regular bulletins on food crop production and markets at the global level and situation reports on a regional and country by country basis since 1975.

Our culture, our cultures?

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Annual inflation fell from 27.6 per cent at end 2002 to 17.2 per cent at end 2003, owing to the fall in food prices following a favourable food harvest.

Well, again and again, what we find as we look around the world in our little tour of the world is that landscape after landscape after landscape have been cleared and altered for growing food and other crops.

Albania became less dependent on food aid.

1.150 2,000,000 food packages will have been distributed.

12. The main regions devoted to rice farming and market gardening have been severely hit, either by the direct impact of the cyclones or by the floods 70 per cent of the paddy fields are flooded, probably irretrievably.

27. Crop production increased by 27.5 per cent in 1992 in contrast to a decline of 27 per cent recorded for 1991.

There is a disintegration of cultures.

Intercropping.

Today, only 5 billion is spent annually on research to improve the seven major global food crops, and just one tenth of that is targeted to help small farmers in Africa and Asia.

States should recognize the rights of indigenous peoples to food security and the sustainable production and consumption of healthy and nutritious foods by using appropriate sustainable technology.

One in eight Americans depends on Food Stamps to eat.

The Moscow food wholesale market network

In terms of strategic perspectives, the Review action plan pointed to the cotton and food processing sectors and the port of Cotonou as providing high potential investing opportunities.