He and former American President Jimmy Carter worked with the Sasakawa Africa Association to help increase the quality and production of corn on the continent.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

They grew crops of corn, beans and squash.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

It began with this news: READER: "The Christianized Indians in some parts of Plimouth, have newly appointed a day of Thanksgiving to God for his Mercy in supplying their extreme and pinching Necessities under their late want of Corn, & for His giving them now a prospect of a very Comfortable Harvest.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

"People realized that if you fed a chicken a mixture of corn and soy, that chicken grew a lot faster."

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

Jatropha curcas can yield four times more biofuel per hectare than soybeans and more than 10 times that of corn.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

Food supplies dropped. There was little to eat except corn bread and the meat of mules.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

"But it did cause major disruptions in the availability of food-grade corn.

VOA: special.2011.03.08

There was enough rain. Huge crops of wheat and corn were produced.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

It tastes much sweeter then the starchier corn of the past.

VOA: special.2010.11.23

One group of prisoners received their usual foods, mostly corn products.

VOA: special.2010.05.18

Some energy experts and environmentalists have expressed skepticism about the benefits of biofuels, especially ethanol produced from corn.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

"Something had to be grown in rotation with corn." Scott Jackson, professor of plant genetics at Purdue University.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

High fructose corn syrup and other forms of sugar are routinely added to processed food and many beverages.

VOA: standard.2010.04.25

Finally a canal company official showed up and set fire to sheaves of green corn to literally smoke the boatsmen out of the tunnel.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

(SPEAKING) Sanou says that cotton used to be the biggest part of his farm, but now that the price has been dropping, he plants more corn.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08