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Consumption of wheat, rice and maize roughly tracks population growth but at a higher level, so demand for them will add about a billion tonnes to the 2 billion produced in 2005-07.
ECONOMIST: The answer is less straightforward than it seems
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About 20 percent of Blackburn's population is Muslim, and Rice had been invited to visit the mosque.
CNN: Rice: Thousands of errors in Iraq
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For the first time since the 1960s the yields of the world's most important crops, wheat and rice, are rising more slowly than the global population (see special report).
ECONOMIST: The future of food
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So are Chinese across the country: Rice is the staple food for most of the population, so widespread cadmium exposure is another wake-up call that unaccountable government causes public health disasters.
WSJ: Review & Outlook: China's Toxic Rice Bowl
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The direction of prices is important because rice is the main staple of more than half the world's population, making its price a focus of attention for world economists.
WSJ: China Rice Imports Upset Global Market
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New cafes are opening, sniper screens are coming down and shops are selling exotic fruits once again, but most people living in the city are unemployed and 70% of the population are wholly or partly dependent on aid supplies of flour, pasta, beans and rice.
BBC: 1996: Siege of Sarajevo is lifted
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That's nearly half the population, who must be resettled before the winter rainy season if they are to plant the single annual rice crop.
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