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Since the onset of the Zimbabwean crisis South African businesses have been maximising business in the former bread basket of Southern Africa nation.
JOHANNESBURG, 12 October 2007 (IRIN) - Record high wheat prices globally are forcing consumers in Southern Africa to dig deeper into their pockets: the price of bread has almost doubled since the beginning of the year, and according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), have already caused food riots in some parts of the world.
Dr. Wiley S. Drake asked the enemy’s “children be fatherless, and his wife a widow,” and “his children be continually vagabonds, and beg; let them seek bread also out of their desolate places ... Let there be none to extend mercy unto him,” Drake quoted, “Neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.”
More than 600,000 people in war-ravaged southern Somalia are suffering from severe malnutrition in a part of country that used to be considered its "bread basket", according to an aid agency report.
Located in southern Japan, around 8,000 Inakadate residents work together to create giant figurative pictures by carefully planting little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru-roman variety, sometimes stretching across multiple farming fields.
Southern bread pudding
