Sentence examples for cereal output from inspiring English sources
Niger warned in September that a deficit of cereal output threatened two million people with famine.
In fractious northern Uganda cereal output is likely to fall by half.
It would take little extra water to double cereal output in many parts of Africa, Mr Molden argues.
The FAO reckons that, if this were to happen (which seems unlikely), it would divert a tenth of the world's cereal output from food to fuels.
COMMODITY PRICE INDEX Despite rising cereal output, many people will still be poorly fed in 2020, according to the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, DC.
Technological innovations in plant-breeding, fertilisers and pesticides have doubled the world's cereal output in a mere 40 years, compared with the 1,000 years that it took English wheat yields to quadruple.
Cereal outputs declined from the previous year in Nigeria and Niger, and traders' stocks are low in all three countries so cereal prices have risen steeply.
The countrys main agricultural production includes grains - - mostly rice (56percentt of total cereal outputs in 2002/03), corn (21percentt), wheat (18percentt), sugarcane, root crops, milk and water buffalo meat.
Estimates of 1999 suggested that aggregate cereal outputs in those countries were about 16percent lower than 1998 and 12percentt lower than the average over the last five years.
Civil conflicts and population displacement remain the key drivers of food insecurity in East Africa and the Near East, whereas dry-weather conditions reduced cereal outputs in Southern Africa, according to the report.
Alas, there is little sign of that happening so far.Losing out both waysAlmost all the increase in cereals output in 2008 came from rich countries: the harvest in those nations increased 11%.
