Sentences with phrase «agrarian community»

The phrase "agrarian community" refers to a group of people who live primarily by farming or agriculture. In an agrarian community, farming and the cultivation of crops are the main sources of livelihood and the basis of the local economy. Full definition
What's needed now is the educational equivalent to Paul Polak's work fostering progress in rural agrarian communities in poor places.
He said that the bandits invaded the sleepy agrarian community in the early hours of Sunday.
The film opens in a small agrarian community in 1897.
As a cultivated crop, corn had a large influence in transforming nomads into agrarian communities, which planted rows of the grain and tended the crop until it was time for harvest.
The group alleged that the invasion of Umuohie village farm lands by herdsmen portends grave consequences for the totally agrarian community.
Symbolising the complex social and political realities facing contemporary agrarian communities in Asia, immense, wing - like sculptures made from hand - forged sickles are hung and counter-balanced by sacks of rice, alongside photographs of farmers with video, sound and drawings.
On a social level, genetic modification of cotton seeds has wreaked havoc in traditionally agrarian communities.
Companies that come into confrontation with agrarian communities can face worse than just work stoppages — a small number of disgruntled ejidatarios have been known to resort to oil theft from pipelines.
The three day duration of the crusade has always turned out to be very rewarding for the residents of the community and its environ as it provides them an opportunity to mingle, hobnob and exchange pleasantries with quality foreign and local visitors attracted to the sleepy agrarian community.
That was well suited to a sparsely - populated, atomised network of small agrarian communities, where there were no professional judges and, until the high medieval period, very few accessible lawyers.
Speakin shortly after he inspected ongoing work on the road, Ekweremadu noted that the project would boost economic activities in some rural, agrarian communities in the state.
In April, in Enugu State, herdsmen invaded Ukpabi Nimbo, an agrarian community in the Uzo - Uwani Local Government of the state, and killed not less than 20 persons in one attack.
Two weeks ago, Commissioner of Police in the state, Abiodun Odude, held a peace meeting with herdsmen, farmers and leaders of the agrarian communities of the state in the command headquarters in Eleyele, Ibadan.
Even the weather reflected the mood of Oyomon quarters, Ineme - Ugboha, an agrarian community in Esan South - East Local Government Area of Edo -LSB-...]
Founded in 1868, Dickens, like most California towns except for Irvine, which was established as a breeding ground for stupid, fat, ugly, white Republicans and the chihuahuas and East Asian refugees who love them, started out as an agrarian community.
Since my previous visits I've learned that this agrarian community is home to a deep dark secret: The area is known for its dog factories, puppy mills, torture houses — call them what you will — and the sign was evidence, however slight, of what goes on there.
Originally an agrarian community, the city was renamed Bartlett after it was incorporated in 1866.
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