Flint

Flint!

Captain Flint?

It's two breeding cycles for maize.

Like everyone else, we grew maize.

I'm done. The third flint fell.

Bletchley passes to Captain Marcus Flint.

So that's how Flint did it.

landbanking programs in cities like Flint, Michigan.

Wait, wait, wait. You knew Captain Flint?

Ethiopian maize farmers produced two years of bumper harvest.

I don't like them. I remember Captain Flint.

How do you think Captain Flint did it, Mom?

Flint didn't want anyone else to know but I...

led to an 80 percent collapse in maize prices in the country.

Flint and his band of renegades swooped in out of nowhere

The farmers get three to four times the yields that they would with maize.

And the most feared of all these pirates was the notorious Captain Nathaniel Flint

If you struggle any more, said the Voice, I shall throw the flint at your head.

Here comes the lady O, so light a foot Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint

In Ethiopia, for example, the variation in maize prices from year to year is as much as 50 percent annually.

Right up until Flint pulled my memory circuits... so I could never tell anybody about his booby trap!

The next three biscuits are the foods that we decide to feed to livestock, the maize, the wheat and the soya.

By 2030, if the maize, or corn, varieties, which is the dominant crop 50 percent of the nutrition in Southern Africa are still in the field in 2030, we'll have a 30 percent decrease in production of maize because of the climate change already in 2030.

Bob Moog came by and hauled a whole pile of equipment to show Greg Flint and I things about this.

Ethiopia's agricultural market is 30 percent higher than South Africa's grain production, and, in fact, Ethiopia is the second largest maize producer in Africa.

The Voice made no answer. Whizz came a flint, apparently out of the air, and missed Mr. Marvel's shoulder by a hair's breadth.

Flint wanted to make sure... that nobody could ever steal his treasure... so he rigged this whole planet... to blow higher than a Kalepsian kite!

I don't say let's go back to the Copper Canyons and live on corn and maize, which is the Tarahumara's preferred diet, but maybe there's somewhere in between.

Mr. Marvel, turning, saw a flint jerk up into the air, trace a complicated path, hang for a moment, and then fling at his feet with almost invisible rapidity.

And there was this big door opening and closing... and opening and closing... and Captain Flint wanted to make sure... nobody could ever get to his treasure... so I helped him...

They were potentially taking a nice piece of flint with them, along the landscape, so that when their current tool ran out, or got down to kind of a nub, they could make themselves a new one.

If you include not just the food that ends up in shops and restaurants, but also the food that people feed to livestock, the maize, the soy, the wheat, that humans could eat but choose to fatten livestock instead to produce increasing amounts of meat and dairy products, what you find is that most rich countries have between three and four times the amount of food that their population needs to feed itself.