If the rains come too late to save America's soya harvest, a bad situation could become dire and hit the whole food sector, according to Abdolreza Abbassian of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation. Bad weather in South America has affected soya already. Rising wheat prices and a failure of America's soya harvest might scare nervy Asian countries into a rice-export ban just as during the food crisis of 2007-08.
nd in an election year Barack Obama is unlikely to risk the wrath of corn-growing swing states such as Ohio, Michigan and Iowa by doing anything that will hit prices
So the prospects for substitution are limited.
Livestock farmers have no such clout and face a tough decision. A wobbly economy makes it hard to pass on rising feed prices to customers.
Even if they do not, hopes for a sustained drop in food prices have been dashed for another year.
a. For me paper wealth and tangible wealth amount to the same thing. b. If I get more money, I have more wealth because I can spend the money for other things — real things. c. But if we all get more money overnight, as in a shower of money from helicopters, only our paper wealth increases; our collective tangible wealth doesn't change because there aren't more things to buy with the additional money. d. If it did, the government could cure poverty and increase nation's wealth simply by printing more money.
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A. Charges and countercharges mean nothing B. to the few million who have lost their home. C. The nightmare is far from over, for the government D. is still unable to reach hundreds who are marooned. E. The death count have just begun.
Concerned that the Arab rebellions would _____________ its own repressed minorities, the repressive China refused to allow the UN Security Council to be used to _____________ revolutionary changes in the Arab world.
A recent article, a …… in genome research published in Nature Journal shows that may not be the case. The sea sponges share almost 70 percent of human genes.
They failed to understand that the premiumness of the product will be compromised due to the customization. Culture is obviously very important factor for marketing a product or to understand consumer behaviour. But with the concept of globalization some companies are trying to establish a unified brand perception across the globe. _______________________________________
A paragraph is given below from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options,choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way. The Bushmen used feathers or poccupine sticks to create these marvels. One of the more important sites of these paintings is the Bleeding Nose Shelter, which was probably a ceremonial site. Drawings of an eland, small antelopes and a whole range of humans standing, dancing and shooting with bows are spread over the rock walls. This site takes its name from a painting of a man in the shamanistic 'trance' state, with blood pouring from his nose.
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A paragraph is given below from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven. If you beat children for pleasure, avow your object frankly, and play the game according to the rules, as a foxhunter does; and you will do comparatively little harm. No foxhunter is such a cad as to pretend that he hunts the fox to teach it not to steal chickens, or that he suffers more acutely than the fox at the death.
word usage: choose the incorrect usage HIT a> I was hungry, so hit into pizza as soon as it arrived b> Last year, his performance hit bottom rock c> He hits upon an excelllent idea d> he hit me with a stick
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A fire in an enclosed space burns with the aid of reflected radiation that preheats the fuel, making ignition much easier and flames spreading more quickly.