Military supply has always had the basic aim of providing military forces the material needed to live (food, water, clothing, shelter, medical supplies), to move (vehicles and transport animals, fuel and forage), to communicate (the whole range of communications equipment), and to fight (weapons, defensive armament and materials, and the expendables of missile power and firepower).
Close to a million people need crop and livestock assistance such as seeds, food for animals, fuel and repair of irrigation pumps.
Main exports: Ores and metals; wool, food and live animals; fuels, transport machinery and equipment.
"Poaching and wildlife trafficking don't just terrorise animals; they fuel terrorism and instability around the world," said Wayne Pacelle, president and chief executive of the Humane Society in the US.
Like all multicellular animals, insects fuel their metabolism by taking in oxygen.
Women were generally the losers in watershed development as they lose the access to common lands for grazing of animals and fuel collection (Meinzen-Dick et al. 2004).
Rather, she said, it seemed to be the sort of place where people, especially children, develop a passion for animals that fuels a lifetime interest in conservation.
For more than five millennia, tribal groups of Marsh Arabs lived sustainably in this water world, using the dominant plant, a giant grass called Phragmites australis, for housing, animal feed, fuel, and commerce.
The aim of the meat industry is to use every part of the animal, whether it's high-demand cuts of steak; trimmings for hamburgers, hot dogs, and sausages; or hides for leather products or byproducts that can be used for animal feed, fuel, fertilizer, or even pharmaceuticals.
Main exports: Food and live animals, mineral fuels, cereals, machinery.
Today we harvest crops for four main purposes: to feed animals, feed humans, generate fuel, and make paper and construction materials.
