In China, southern people eat rice as staple food northern people eat wheaten food as staple food.

So out went the green scrubs and in came the polyester and floral prints.

When without a stapler, a staple and a ruler will work

This is a typewriter, a staple of every desktop for decades.

Rice is the staple food for more than half the world's population.

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.

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,

And that is bread something which is as simple as our basic, most fundamental human staple.

And I have to say, this really proves that storytelling, it's a commodity, it's a staple.

Annual maize production, the basic staple, is one third of what it was several years ago.

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

In particular, governments must invest in nutrition through budgets, introduce mandatory fortification of staple foods, curb junk food, and improve quality control.

So bread has become from a main staple, a source of calories associated with obesity and also a source of modernity, of modern life.

It's a strange business model. I can come into work everyday and staple five pieces of paper and just stare at it with my latte.

And that meant that everyone in the family had to sign up to take her to have her hair dyed, you know, that peculiar color of blue that matches her polyester pants suit, you know, same color as the Buick.

We can prevent millions from dying from malnutrition simply by distributing vitamin supplements. These are not space age technologies, but staple goods that the world needs.

However, in 2019, Thomas and many farmers like him plan to switch production to the staple crops in the former U.S. agricultural region, such as corn and wheat.

'Not one month, one day,' his roommate Hilary Kibagendi Onsomu, who was cooking ugali, the spongy white cornmeal concoction that is the staple food in the country, cut into the conversation.

Production of paddy rice, the main staple crop, has increased by 20 per cent over the past two years but has reached only 50 per cent of the pre war level.

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.

Batch to batch, crust to crust ... In tribute to the beloved staple food, baking master Peter Reinhart reflects on the cordial couplings that give us our daily bread. Try not to eat a slice.

Furthermore, lower levels of mycotoxins in pest resistant corn mean fewer birth defects, such as spina bifida, and less toxicity to livestock. Such staple food crops also can be modified to contain additional nutrients.

In the measure that you have the source code, as all of you know, you can change the source code, and you can reprogram life forms so that this little thingy becomes a vaccine, or this little thingy starts producing biomaterials, which is why DuPont is now growing a form of polyester that feels like silk in corn.

So if you affix some wires and switches to those tiles rather than to the staple strands, you affix them to the tiles then they'll self assemble the somewhat complicated circuits, the demultiplexer circuits, that you need to address this memory.

National and international trade and book fairs were used as grounds for promoting rice marketing and nutrition, stimulating interest in various rice technologies, disseminating information to the general public and increasing awareness of the role and importance of rice as a staple food.

So I loved writing so much that I'd come home from school, and I would take out pieces of paper, and I would staple them together, and I would fill those blank pages with words and pictures just because I loved using my imagination.

A large number of complaints were received by the Government regarding the importation of inferior quality rice from January to March 2005, and many people refused to purchase the substandard rice, which resulted in a huge rise in the price of the staple butter rice.

The Enola controversy is a stark illustration of the danger of patenting life, and the power of patents to block agricultural imports, disrupt or destroy developing countries export markets, hijack staple food crops that are the cultural heritage of millennia, plunder collective knowledge, and threaten food security.

Of course, in very poor countries and regions, where people cannot afford to buy food on world markets, the supply side should not be neglected. Boosting yields of locally grown staple foods (rather than cash crops) would increase self sufficiency and strengthen resilience when international food prices are high.

LONDON Fiscal austerity has become such a staple of conventional wisdom in the United Kingdom that anyone in public life who challenges it is written off as a dangerous leftist. Jeremy Corbyn, the current favorite to become the next leader of Britain s Labour Party, is the latest victim of this chorus of disparagement.

In the past, cattle, sheep, and goats fed on grass and other energy sources unavailable to humans, while pigs and chickens fed on waste, thus contributing overall to total food availability. Now one third of all arable land is used to grow crops to feed livestock, not to grow staple crops for people.

Subsistence activities, such as upland and swamp cultivation of the staple food crops, fishing, hunting of wild animals in nearby forests for domestic consumption and sale and other income generating activities, including domestic fuel production and gold and diamond mining, constitute another major preoccupation of 60 to 80 per cent of Liberia's rural poor.

Working long days might be only a marker for being at higher risk of heart disease. For example, it could be that highly stressed people with Type A personality who think that bacon cheeseburgers and creamy sauces are staple foods, and who already have an increased, long term risk of heart disease, also tend to work longer hours.

Rather than risking mockery with outlandish claims a staple of Soviet propagandists that Russia will one day surpass the West economically, Surkov taps a deeper and safer emotion fear. Whatever Russians think of the country s economic malaise GDP is expected to contract by 3.8 this year, while inflation could top 15 they are assured that they would be much worse off without Putin.

More research is also needed to improve the nutritional quality of staple foods by fortifying them with iron, vitamin A, and zinc to help solve widespread micronutrient deficiencies. We must also strengthen food safety from production to consumption, including improvements in our understanding of the interaction between the food system and human health, particularly zoonotic diseases and the effects of pesticides.

The resolution submitted by 43 Member States, noted that rice is the staple food for more than half the world's population and affirmed the need to focus world attention on the role that rice can play in providing food security and eradicating poverty in the attainment of the internationally agreed upon development goals, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration.

Indeed, since late 2003, when the Fed first cut interest rates to 1 , triggering the US housing bubble, dollar reserves in emerging markets have increased six fold, reaching 7 trillion by 2011. The resulting expansion in emerging markets monetary base has led to much higher inflation in these countries than in the US, and to global commodity price bubbles, particularly for oil and staple foods.

Counter terrorism against groups such as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (which now calls itself simply the Islamic State ) whether by drones, small raids, or the training and arming of local partners must become a staple of policy. It is time to recognize the inevitability of Iraq s break up (the country is now more a vehicle for Iran s influence than a bulwark against it) and bolster an independent Kurdistan within Iraq s former borders.

The third major challenge is using PPP estimates, measured in national currencies, to convert survey data into global poverty estimates that account for cost of living differences between countries. Given that the conversions that the World Bank currently uses are based on an international exercise that was conducted for 2005, they fail to account for recent factors that are significantly affecting the poor and vulnerable, such as much higher prices for staple foods.