breadbasket

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

Fields have become battlegrounds in the country’s breadbasket.

They traveled west to the Middle East about 1,200 years ago, perhaps hitchhiking in soldiers’ breadbaskets.

As a result, most of America’s initial aid took the form of food — at first we were less the arsenal of democracy than its breadbasket.

In December, it captured Wad Madani, the capital of the breadbasket El Gezira state, where tens of thousands of people fled when the war started.