breadbasket

The Ogallala Aquifer, which rests beneath the Great Plains and was once thought inexhaustible, now drops several feet per year in some areas, turning what was once America’s breadbasket into tomorrow’s dust bowl.

Rising temperatures, shifting precipitation, and emerging diseases are among the mélange of climate impacts changing what's grown in breadbaskets around the world.

Until then, he said, “the raids sent shock waves through the entire Central Valley,” the breadbasket of California and of the entire country.

But the more eggs you place in fewer breadbaskets, the greater the risks.

The village is in a farming region that was once the breadbasket of Sudan, but is now a vast battleground.