Even as it receives a billion pounds of free food from international donors, Sudan is growing and selling vast quantities of its own crops to other countries, capitalizing on high global food prices at a time when millions of people in its war-riddled region of Darfur barely have enough to eat.

By David Streitfeld and Keith Bradsher (The New York Times)
TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 2008
In a year when global harvests need to be excellent to ease the threat of pervasive food shortages, evidence is mounting that crops will be average at best. Some farmers are fearing disaster.