A staple for cooking throughout Southeast Asia and elsewhere, palm oil is the single largest traded vegetable oil commodity in the world, and global demand is rising rapidly, the U.S. Department of Agriculture says.
Ramen soup is a good staple for cooking on the cheap.
Expecting the fuel increase to drive up food prices, residents of Yangon, the main city, rushed to buy staples like cooking oil and rice.
Mr. Isaacson said CNN would do fewer morning staples like cooking segments and outdoors concerts, though he did not rule them out.
A shortfall of international aid has forced the World Food Program to halve the food ration for 2.6 million malnourished people in Zimbabwe, and aid officials say supplies for that country of some staples like cooking oil will completely run out early next month.
Clear examples include point-of-use water disinfectants, insecticide treated bed nets, oral rehydration therapy, fortified food staples, condoms, improved cooking stoves, and basic primary healthcare services.
In Morocco, the monarchy almost doubled its subsidies for staple foods and cooking gas.
The prices of staples -- gas, cooking oil, grains, sheep -- have skyrocketed.
Meanwhile the government is priming the pump, cutting the domestic price of fuel by 25% and expanding the range of staples, such as cooking oil, sugar and tea, that it subsidises, along with rice and flour.
As a result, the price of rice and other staples like sugar, cooking oil, salt and beans has skyrocketed and there have also been runs on gasoline and pharmaceuticals.
