None of this is to deny that the situation in south Somalia the country's breadbasket is anything other than dire.
And Zimbabwe is a classic example of a country that should be the breadbasket for an entire region.
Though Shih grew up in Lukang, a town in Taiwan's breadbasket county of Changhua, he had little exposure to farming.
With IT spending down in the breadbasket markets in the West, the majors are all looking to growth in India.
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Pre-monsoon showers already have damaged some of the newly-harvested wheat crop in the breadbasket state of Punjab in western India.
This week the wheat and soya crops in the pampa humida, Argentina's breadbasket, west of Buenos Aires, were in danger.
Heartland, breadbasket, center of the nation, the warm symbolism of all that.
They mostly come from the fertile Rift Valley of Kenya, the breadbasket of the country, putting more pressure on already skyrocketing food prices.
Ever since land reform, Zimbabwe, which used to be the regional breadbasket, has been unable to produce enough food to feed its own people.
Zimbabwe, once a breadbasket of Africa, has slid into increasing chaos under the long rule of Mugabe, who has led the country since 1980.
Emilia-Romagna has the unique distinction of being the breadbasket of Italy, and arguably the single most important gourmet food production region in the world.
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In power for decades, he has been sharply criticized for rights abuses and turning the nation from a breadbasket into a financial basket case.
Zimbabwe, ruled for almost 30 years by Robert Mugabe, has degenerated from a breadbasket of southern Africa into a basket case of violence, hunger and cholera.
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the group he led, created a program called Operation Breadbasket that called for companies to hire a certain number of blacks.
Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa, is now a net importer of food and facing acute shortages of most essentials such as fuel, electricity and medical drugs.
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So did China and South Korea, countries not usually associated with water shortages but where agricultural expansion has been draining dry breadbasket areas like the North China Plain.
Not only does this threaten the whole of the Nile delta, once the breadbasket of the Roman world, it also means that the dam, like so many others, cannot last.
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.
Romania, once a breadbasket, could with its 23m people be a powerhouse of south-eastern Europe, just as Poland with nearly 40m has emerged incontestably as the new dynamo of east-central Europe between Germany and Belarus-Russia.
In less than three decades the country has gone from being a food importer to a global breadbasket, exporting everything from soybeans to sugar, beef and orange juice, often at the expense of the environment.
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