The 21 Americans in the crew were trying to deliver tons of food and other agricultural materials for the World Food Program, to be distributed among destitute Muslims in that Kenyan port city, and beyond.

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By and large, British savings were financing mines, railways and frontier expansion in the New World so that it could produce food for British workers and raw materials for British factories.

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Prof Elliot from QUB said the substitution of "low quality, low value materials for the true foodstuff has plagued food production for centuries".

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Rather than simply handing over money, the Saudi government is promising to pay Saudi companies for their exports of, say, food or building materials to Iraq, if Iraq cannot pay.

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He lacks ties to local political machines that dole out building materials, food or cash in return for votes.

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Many charities operated there, providing everything from food to clothes to materials to build floors for people with dirt ones.

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Input prices continued to rise, particularly for fuel, other petroleum-based materials, metals, food, and chemicals.

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Firms that sell raw materials to other food companies can benefit, for one.

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And they would have to decide not just which crops to plant but whether to use them for food, carbon capture or things like bio-industrial raw materials.

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But it's vital that any prioritization of agriculture is not at the expense of the trade in raw materials, according to Ousmane Badiane, Africa director for the International Food Policy Research Institute.

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