The government of Malawi sold its grain reserves last year.
However, often famine and rats cause grain reserves to diminish.
In 1972, moreover, when only 57 days of grain reserves were available, world grain prices doubled.
The government is moving toward bigger grain reserves, changes in agricultural practices and construction of a new dam.
In 1947 there was little of either grain reserves or gold.
At the same time, China has been increasing its imports and tapping into grain reserves.
With those measures, they could keep the budget deficit within manageable figure, and had sufficient grain reserves at its disposal.
More research is also needed on global and national systems of grain reserves.
A poor grain harvest led Iraq to dip into its grain reserves last year.
Farmers seldom kept significant grain reserves above that needed for next year's seeds.