Sentences with phrase «breadbasket for»

For Americans, who live in a country that has been the world's breadbasket for more than half a century, a country that has never known food shortages or runaway food prices, the world is about to change.

Its fertile land mean that it was a major agricultural source for the Incas and it continues to serve as something of a breadbasket for Cusco today.

It continues to serve as something of a breadbasket for Cusco today.

It ain't known as the nation's breadbasket for nothing.

Not exact matches

Even our present quantum theories are mechanistic in a sense (a dance of algorithms with unexpected surprises for breadbasket - common sense).

Whatever the final outcome, the events could signal a once - in - a-generation change for the former British colony, a regional breadbasket reduced to destitution by economic policies Mugabe's critics have long blamed on him.

Two techniques show promise for helping farmers conserve scarce water in Punjab, India's breadbasket

SciDevNet — The initiative known as Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) is focusing on eight priority areas — self - sufficiency in rice, intensification of cassava, food security in the Sahel, transforming savannas as a breadbasket, restoring tree plantations, expanding horticulture, increasing wheat production and expanded fish farming.

For example, you can decide whether to eat out or stay in, but after you have eaten the first piece of bread from the restaurant breadbasket, your instincts take over and make you eat several pieces until you are satisfied.

As The Big Roundtable gets off the ground Shapiro and his «readers» will be looking for long - form nonfiction, which is something bigger than a breadbasket and smaller than an elephant.

The Santa Barbara Channel and it's Islands provides a breadbasket of seafood, with harvest strictly managed for environmental sustainability.

In coming years, it seems likely that the llanos will become both an agro-industrial breadbasket and a major energy corridor for Colombia.

The consequences of climate change paint a bleak picture for the Southwest and much of America's breadbasket, the Great Plains.

If we could see ahead to 2111, when the temperature (anomaly) is 3º C instead of 0ºC and the CO2 concentration is approaching 600 ppm, when the ice caps are gone and Greenland is called whatever might be the Chinese word for breadbasket, we couldn't tell whether the climate change was natural or anthropogenic.

As the NOAA / NCDC climate record reveals, the breadbasket areas of American have been cooling for a longer period - 17 years.

Amazingly, over the shorter term, the global warming predictions for the U.S. breadbasket have been even worse, in fact, astoundingly atrocious - instead of warming, growing areas have cooled considerably.

The UK's Special Representative for Climate Change, Sir David King, warns us that with current climate policies we risk simultaneous collapses of basic crop production in the major breadbaskets of the Northern Hemisphere.

Mitt Romney has pledged that he would approve the pipeline on Day 1 of his administration, opening the spigot for 900,000 barrels of the world's dirtiest oil to flow down through the country's breadbasket to the Gulf every day.

But according to the World Wildlife Fund, improvements to irrigation practices in just one Turkish agricultural region could remove much of that uncertainty, saving enough water annually to meet Istanbul's needs for up to three years.This month, a joint project by WWF and Turkish cookie and cracker manufacturer ETİ Burçak will begin training farmers in Konya, a fertile region of central Anatolia known as «Turkey's breadbasket,» to use modern drip - irrigation methods that reduce water consumption by one third to one half.