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But there is no doubting the impact so far: the programme has turned Malawi into a breadbasket: in 2005, the country imported over 40% of its food; this year, it will export more than half its output, including to famine-stricken Kenya, having trebled the maize harvest in four years.Brazil also subsidised inputs, launching a programme that provided credit for 14,000 tractors in its first year.

The cobbler's children have no shoes, but when Apollonia was born her father put her to sleep in a crib fashioned from a breadbasket.

Decent governance, rule of law and a willingness to employ science, such as genetic engineering, to conduct agriculture under stressed conditions (here the European Union is complicit in Luddite folly) could foster a breadbasket.

Crucial contracts have yet to be signed.Dinka ministers in Juba talk grandly of bringing in tractors and turning virgin land into a breadbasket.

"It is supposed to be a breadbasket, but there has always been major discrimination against grain-based areas in China.

When Zimbabwe gained full independence from Britain, in 1980, the country had the potential to be a breadbasket for the rest of Africa.

White settlers turned the conquered lands into a breadbasket which made Argentina an agricultural superpower and a confident, thrusting nation in the early 20th century.

Not the least of Israel's accomplishments was the irrigation in the Jordan Valley Project that transformed the Negev into a breadbasket.

It was a breadbasket of the region.

Fourteen years ago, Zimbabwe was a breadbasket for southern Africa.

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