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- noun Plural form of
breadbasket .
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Recent estimates by a collaborative team of climate scientists, including a group from MIT, calculate that even if we implemented the most stringent greenhouse gas limits currently proposed by some of the world's governments, it is quite likely that our world's climate will warm by 6.3F or more over the next century, leading to disastrous crop failures in most of the world's productive farmlands and "breadbaskets".
Matthew Stein: The Perfect Storm: Six Trends Converging on Collapse Matthew Stein 2010
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Areas where rains remain steady or actually increase could become breadbaskets for the region.
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Try multiplying the number of breadbaskets you come in contact with each month by 300 calories, and enjoy the savings in turning them away.
The Flex Diet M.D. James Beckerman 2011
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The regions of southern Somalia devastated by famine used to be the breadbaskets major food-producing areas of the country.
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The regions of southern Somalia devastated by famine used to be the breadbaskets major food-producing areas of the country.
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Try multiplying the number of breadbaskets you come in contact with each month by 300 calories, and enjoy the savings in turning them away.
The Flex Diet M.D. James Beckerman 2011
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Important for Canada, for the province of Saskatchewan, and for PotashCorp's global customer base, all of which will benefit from more equitable potash distribution to their breadbaskets.
Sanjay Khanna: Potash Is Food Resilience: Should Canada's PotashCorp Be Sold to China? 2010
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Important for Canada, for the province of Saskatchewan, and for PotashCorp's global customer base, all of which will benefit from more equitable potash distribution to their breadbaskets.
Sanjay Khanna: Potash Is Food Resilience: Should Canada's PotashCorp Be Sold to China? 2010
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Guests sat in front of cold coffee cups, empty breadbaskets, and wine-stained tablecloths not of their doing.
What Remains II Teri Pastore 2010
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The slump in production in one of the world's most fertile breadbaskets has pushed prices up 62% since early June, and last month saw the biggest and fastest increase since 1959.
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