Sentences with phrase «as peasant farmers»

And we needed to live as peasant farmers.

Mahama Seidu added that, as peasant farmers, they could not pay their children's school fees because of the decline in agriculture.

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In this way they used the peasant - farmer organisations as alibis.

It is as a result of this that we have become part of a peasant - farmer platform bringing together ten West African countries.

We, or more specifically Fair Food Farmers, have also been invited as observers to La Via Campesina, and this is an important first step in a long process of potentially joining the world's largest peasant farmer organisation.

As early as 700 B.C., Chinese authorities were encouraging peasant farmers to move into remote regions of the plateau, citing the need to feed a large and growing population while establishing a buffer of human settlement against the threat of nomadic invaders along its northern bordeAs early as 700 B.C., Chinese authorities were encouraging peasant farmers to move into remote regions of the plateau, citing the need to feed a large and growing population while establishing a buffer of human settlement against the threat of nomadic invaders along its northern bordeas 700 B.C., Chinese authorities were encouraging peasant farmers to move into remote regions of the plateau, citing the need to feed a large and growing population while establishing a buffer of human settlement against the threat of nomadic invaders along its northern border.

Some arid regions will turn into deserts and rising seas will inundate fertile but low lying delta regions that are home to tens of millions of peasant farmers in countries such as Bangladesh and Egypt.

My parents were peasant farmers, members of the Kikuyu community, one of forty - two ethnic groups in Kenya and then, as now, the most populous.

Factor in net debt, and the excessive (annual) cash - burn rate, and Continental Farmers is worth about as much as the typical Ukrainian peasant's savings a / c...

Another important trend was the production of genre paintings with humorous portrayals of life, such as Threshing Rice (1780), in which Gim Hongdo (1745 - 1806) depicts a lazing, pipe - smoking farmer overseeing hard - working peasants.

Magazine I outlined a bit of what occurred at the meeting, and tried to describe what I see as the cultural rift that makes it difficult, well nigh impossible, for government agencies and global bodies to engage in meaningful dialogue with indigenous and peasant farmer communities.