Harvests of Hunger

Turkmenistan already has a record breaking president and ever rising wheat harvests.

Forty nine sugar harvests allowed him to settle in Mañalich with more than 2,000 pesos.

But recent harvests had been lousy and farmers had little or nothing to feed their animals and themselves.

Accelerating harvests would mean higher, more reliable production with less labor a formula for stronger, more stable livelihoods.

The problem began in the late 1960's and early 1970's, when Iraq experienced a series of abysmal harvests.

We know what sort of soil his is, black as poppy seed, but he cannot boast of his harvests either.

Falling prices for its commodity exports haven t helped, but Brazil s economy was supposed to be about far more than just harvests and extractive industries.

If water can be managed through irrigation, this could be combined with multi cropping (multiple harvests per year) to produce a crop during the dry season.

Joseph prophesied that there would come seven years of plenty, with abundant harvests from an overflowing Nile, followed by seven lean years, with famine resulting from drought.

For most of this enormous country, with its 135 million people and 11 time zones, such signs of the past and the promised business future are regarded as skeptically as proclamations about record harvests under Brezhnev.

Harvests may halve and rivers on which irrigation and hydropower depend may become a mere trickle. On the other hand, too much rainfall can be as bad as too little, especially when it comes out of season.

Fourth, many cash strapped developing countries fear that social safety nets, once put in place, may become fiscally unsustainable, owing to a sudden loss of export revenue, poor harvests, or sharp increases in prices for food imports.

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.

The costs of the government s failure to support farmers can be seen in the stunted bodies of children and the poor diets of adults, even in a year when Malawi is witnessing bumper harvests of corn, the country s staple.

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The solution is to increase grain yields to at least two tons and in some places to three or more tons per hectare. If water can be managed through irrigation, this could be combined with multi cropping (multiple harvests per year) to produce a crop during the dry season.

All the questions as to why they had bad harvests, for instance, or why the natives kept to their own creeds and so on, questions which without the convenience of the official machine don't get solved and can't get solved for centuries, had received clear and certain solutions.

For most of this enormous country, with its 135 million people and 11 time zones, such signs of the past and the promised business future are regarded as skeptically as proclamations about record harvests under Brezhnev. All of these are seen as Kremlin games, hypothetical and hypocritical, bearing little relation to reality.

The celebrated pipeline between Chad and Cameroon caused water pollution, devastated pygmies' hunting grounds, destroyed harvests, and spread AIDS perhaps the inevitable result of ill educated migrant workers toiling thousands of miles from home, with a horde of prostitutes following them. Projected annual revenues from this project for oil companies such as Chevron, Exxon, and Petronas, and lenders like the World Bank and the European Investment Bank, are estimated at 4.7 billion.