Brazilian oil sugar and ethanol company Cosan (CZZ) is off the list.
Some vegetables are grown locally, but dairy products, cooking oil, sugar all have to be flown in.
"Brazil was hardly touched by the credit crunch, they have had an amazing time with oil, sugar and bio fuels, " says Bellos.
The new budget law extended a tax waiver on cooking oil and sugar imported from abroad until the end of the year.
Cooking oil, sugar and Zimbabweans' staple maize porridge have become very hard to come by in Harare, harder still in the countryside.
So it is allowing up to 15 million new names to be added to the register of people eligible to receive subsidised oil, sugar, rice and tea.
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Lower commodity prices means lower costs for important resources like oil and sugar, and therefore lower import costs for China and India, both battling with high inflation.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry noted that it sent rice, sugar, oil, fruit and dairy products on 121 trucks to Gaza on Sunday via the Sufa and Kerem Shalom crossings.
The note consists of futures of contracts of seven agricultural commodities (soybeans, corn, wheat, cotton, soybean oil, coffee and sugar) and tracks the return of the Dow Jones-UBS Agriculture Total Return Sub-Index.
The company sees a big market in particular for paints, in which chemical chains of sugar and oil would replace the volatile ketones and oxygenated solvents that vaporize from both oil-based and latex paint.
The article shows how stocks have become highly correlated to commodities like gold, oil, copper and even sugar.
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Drizzle them with the olive oil and sprinkle with the sugar and pepper.
"Yogurt" pretzels whose dominant ingredients are sugar and palm oil.
Both trends have helped to propel the crop's price to dizzy heights, with the prices of other commodities from which fuel can be made, such as sugar and rapeseed oil.
"All South American countries and Africa can easily produce oil seeds for biodiesel, sugar cane for ethanol and food at the same time, " Mr Lula said on his weekly radio programme.
We are ready to import oil from Saudi Arabia but not sugar from Brazil.
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He gave it up to set up a small trading company and later a sugar and palm-oil venture with Malaysian tycoon Robert Kuok.
The algae consume sugar and excrete crude oil.
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The dhows are stacked with pasta, rice, sugar, flour and cooking oil.
So long as they buy dollars, and use dollars as a base to sell crude oil from Iran to China, or sugar from Brazil to Russia, then the dollar will remain the most important currency on the planet.
Profit gained in part on lower costs for sugar, potato starch and palm oil compared with a year earlier.
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People sell everything here - vegetables, cooking oil packed in 50ml (yes 50ml) plastic tubes, sugar by the tablespoon - anything really.
Commodities include everything from oil and gas, to gold and silver to coffee and the sugar you put in it.
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In Zambia, say, a poor person is defined as someone who cannot afford to buy at least two to three plates of nshima (a kind of porridge), a sweet potato, a few spoonfuls of oil, a handful of groundnuts and a couple of teaspoons of sugar each day, plus a banana and a chicken twice a week.
You read that right: scientists have created bugs which are able to snack on woodchips or sugar cane and produce waste in the form of easily malleable oil.
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The churro guy pushes the sweet dough into its signature rocket shape before his partner in crime drops them into bubbling oil, stuffs them into a paper bag and tops them with crunchy sugar.
No longer able to sell its sugar, nickel and oranges at vastly inflated prices, or import artificially cheap Soviet oil, Cuba plunged into severe recession.
The sugar people complain that, although the price of ethanol rises and falls with world sugar demand, petrol prices in Brazil do not adjust quickly to changes in the oil price.
Then its founders, Jonathan Wolfson and Harrison Dillon, asked themselves whether it might not be cheaper to ignore the photosynthetic step, buy the sugar that photosynthesis produces instead, and concentrate on getting the algae to turn it into oil.
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The sun is replaced by sugar, essentially, which is fed to the algae, which then produces different types of oil that can be processed into a variety of fuels, suitable for cars and planes.
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