Word: breadbasket
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...former revolutionary has promised to make Nicaragua, a country that has experienced famine in recent years, the great breadbasket to supply all of Central America and his leftist allies further south. And he's calling on Nicaraguan farmers to rise to the challenge...
...Center for Research on Environmental Policy. With rich volcanic soils, some 443,000 hectares of fallow farm land waiting to be put back to work, and a long agricultural tradition of growing basic food products, Nicaragua "has the best conditions in Central America" to become a regional breadbasket, Otero says...
Traditionally, Castilla-León is Spain's breadbasket, its dry flatlands covered with wheat, barley and other grains that require little water. But in recent decades, farmers have begun switching to more profitable irrigated crops, unwittingly creating an alluring new habitat for the vole. "Since the late 1980s we have seen occasional cycles in which large numbers of voles, drawn by these new food sources, have appeared in the northern part of Castilla-León," says biologist Juan José Luque, a rodent specialist at the University of Valladolid. "What's extraordinary this year is that, instead...
...caused by outbreaks of livestock disease as well as severe flooding in agricultural areas. But it's not just food prices that are taxing consumers. The costs of rents and mortgages were up 4.4%, making housing the second most inflationary category after food. That kind of blow to the breadbasket means people like Kong are "raising their chopsticks to eat, but laying them down to grumble," as the Chinese saying goes...
...quake also destroyed some stretches of the Pan-American Highway, which runs along the Pacific coast and is Peru's principal highway - as well as the link between Lima and Ica. Other major roadways, like the Central Highway, which connects the capital to the country's breadbasket in the central highlands, were also damaged...