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As a result, most Africans use biomass (animal and vegetable wastes and firewood) for lighting, cooking, and heating.
Haiti’s fortification project will focus on enriching wheat flour with iron and folic acid, vegetable oils with vitamin A, and salt with iodine.
By 2030, more than 50% of Africa’s 1.4 billion inhabitants are expected to live in cities.Urbanization brings with it opportunity, as consumer demand will most likely shift towards higher-value processed foods, including fruit, vegetables, vegetable oils, fish, and dairy products.
It knows that the bureaucratic apparatus remains outrageously large, and that civil servants retain numerous expensive perks - cars, dachas, medical services, and more - while most ordinary Russians scrape by on meager wages and vegetable gardens.
The Politics of Revolutionary SurpriseDURHAM – In setting himself ablaze following a humiliating encounter with the police, the university-educated Tunisian vegetable seller Mohamed Bouazizi triggered a wave of protests across the Arab world.
For example, in Kenya, one vegetable grower turned her kitchen garden into a vertical farm to increase its output.
“All I lose is an indefinite number of years of being a vegetable in a hospital setting, eating up the country’s money but having not the faintest idea of who I am.”
This does not capture the full picture: for example, meat accounts for about 4% of food wastage but 20% of the costs, while 70% of fruit and vegetable output is wasted, accounting for 40% of the total cost.
As a result, fruit and vegetable prices are twice what they would be otherwise, and milk costs 50% more than it should.
As a result, if current biofuel-policy trends continue, the price of coarse grains could increase by an average of 13% per year from 2013-2017, while the price of oilseed could rise by 7%, and that of vegetable oils by 35%.
For example, in Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia, local extension services are delivering real-time weather data to vegetable farmers via SMS.
Highly efficient drip irrigation can boost the region’s fruit and vegetable production, without excessive water use.
Nor did climate change feature prominently in his argument, although many experts suggest that this may be the cause of the droughts and floods that have ruined wheat harvests in Australia and vegetable oil production in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Over the last decade alone, vegetable production in the Asia-Pacific region, where more than three-quarters of the world’s vegetables are grown, increased by one-quarter.
A lab built to certify that beef does not have foot-and-mouth disease is of little use in verifying that fruit and vegetable exports are similarly disease-free.
In other words, any kind of fruit or vegetable can be grown anywhere, year-round (with a lead time of a few weeks).
If, for example, the world’s vegetable supply more than doubled, fresh, healthy food would become more affordable and accessible.
Similarly, Twiga Foods in Kenya is using technology to optimize its supply chain by matching rural fruit and vegetable growers with small- and medium-size vendors in Nairobi.
To survive, many North Koreans forage for edible roots and leaves and make soups from cabbage stalks and vegetable waste.
As I write this under a vine in my vegetable garden, I look west across wooded hills and cannot see another building.
Between 2006 and 2011, for example, we doubled the agriculture budget, distributed more than 2,000 cows to low-income families, and expanded milk delivery and fruit and vegetable gardens across the country.
If that prediction is borne out, biofuels will consume 12% of the world’s coarse grain, 28% of its sugar cane, and 14% of its vegetable oil.
In Vietnam, a cooperative program has improved the quality of produce for urban consumers, and boosted tea, fruit, and vegetable revenues by nearly one third.
Bolivia prohibited the export of corn, rice, meat, and vegetable oil.
For example, Russia has had "shti" (cabbage soup), "ukha" (fish soup), "pokhlebka" (everything soup), "selyanka" (peasant soup), "botviniya" (cold beet soup), "okroshka" (spring vegetable soup).
The WFP is meeting emergency food needs for nearly 700,000 Rohingya, supplying nutrient-rich biscuits to new arrivals and feeding registered residents with regular distributions of rice, vegetable oil, and lentils.
Apart from an on-again, off-again private market in the capital, Pyongyang, as well as the occasional side-of-the-road vegetable market, there are scant signs that North Korea is reforming, or that anyone in the leadership is (or was) pushing for it.
Measures to reduce risk factors other than smoking – high intake of saturated animal fat, obesity, binge drinking of alcohol, physical inactivity, and low fruit and vegetable consumption – have had little success.
The damage may cause a 15% drop in this year’s harvest of canola, the continent’s primary source of vegetable oil used in food and biodiesel.
The struggling fruit and vegetable vendor Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia set himself on fire – triggering the country’s popular uprising – because he could not get anywhere in this system.
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