Sentences with phrase «by plantation»

One advantage was that if a labourer was evicted by a plantation owner or had to go elsewhere for work, the home could easily be dismantled and moved.
The work is completed by a text adapted from one written by a plantation inspector and selected for its perverse romanticisation of a woman's enforced labour.
Using art objects commissioned by plantation owners for their mansions — among them the first landscape images painted in the region — the show also explores the culture of tobacco, its workers, its marketing, and its associations with modernity.
The Cobblers Cove main house, now known as the Great House, was built in 1943 by plantation owner Joss Haynes and has undergone extensive renovations and expansion works over the years to complete its transformation from a family beach house to a luxury boutique resort hotel.
Interiors will be characterised by plantation shutters, diaphanous - draped four - poster beds, and a laid - back modern coastal vibe.
Thus, we see how the sexualization and rape of sisters by plantation owners and their being forced to mate with strangers for breeding purposes rather than for love when added to the inability of emasculated brothers to protect their females have contributed to a distance and distrust still in evidence.
Solomon is purchased by plantation owner, Mr. Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch, Star Trek Into Darkness), a complex character who seems appalled by the harsher aspects of slavery, but not so much that he'll stop buying slaves.
Israel was of course formed by plantation just after World War 2, with the jewish holocaust acting as a catalyst.
Currently european and north american nations are being de-Christinized, not only by attacks from science and the arts, but also by the plantation of immigrants with other faiths, most notably Muslim and Hindu beliefs.
The socio - economic change in motion by the plantations, diseases and epidemics, created a crisis of confidence in adjusting to or adapting with existence and environment.
The house is built on the dunes overlooking Paindane Beach, surrounded by plantations of coconut palms, and a 4x4 vehicle is required to reach the resort.
The magnificent coast hemmed by white sand beaches, stunningly beautiful cliffs and by plantations of coconut palms is arranging unforgettable viewpoints on the three Gili islands.
Cities are smaller and they are surrounded by plantations or dense jungle.
Any free O2 has got to be made by plantations and therefore is associated with biomass.
A report from Grain also shows that employment generated by plantations often goes to foreign migrants, not locals, and that most of the jobs are seasonal, poorly paid and dangerous.
Also unclear is just how much biomass would have to be turned into biochar to make a meaningful dent in global warming, and what environmental and social impacts this might have — for example, by encouraging the clear - cutting of forests and their replacement by plantations of trees destined for biochar production.

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After three months, employees qualify for free health care, provided by a full - time nurse and a part - time doctor at the plantation's infirmary, along with 15 paid vacation days a year.
The plantation mixes centuries - old traditions — most of the work is done by hand — and the latest agricultural methods.
Sandalwood producer TFS Corporation has confirmed a $ 65 million capital raising to buy - out plantations owned by managed investment schemes.
Redone rooms feature little extras, ranging from flat - panel TVs and iHome clock radios to canvas artwork by famed artist Aldo Luongo and white plantation shutters that add abundant natural light.
«Tea is a category that is not typically affected by economic downturns,» Caroline Russell, CEO of Boh Plantations, told CNBC's «Managing Asia.»
Here is a coffee plantation virtual reality video shot by Nescafe to give you an example of what you may expect.
By the turn of the 20th century Gros Michel was exported from the Caribbean and Central America, where large - scale plantations were carved out of virgin rainforest.
Too late for the tour and the history lesson, too late in the season on this southern plantation, and the ancient, front - line cedar soldiersbacked up by a strong regiment of holliesare not telling what they know.I walk on the old brick, caulked with thin moss, but soon overlaid with a thickening....
When colonial governments in Africa found that natives were reluctant to work on plantations or roads, they required them to pay taxes in cash, which they could obtain only by wage labor.
The Fultons are expected to serve their year - long sentence by doing plantation work and paying an $ 8,600 fine.
Well, there was a nun from Brazil who heard of my arrival to a parish that had not had a priest before and came to welcome me very sweetly but also said, «By the way, it is forbidden for you to enter the sugar cane plantations of the Vicini family.»
There's so much room for abuse by power - players that the free - market functions more like a plantation with a captive work force.
You are touting the foolish liberal idea that is used to keep the poor down on the plantation by keeping them victims who earn next to nothing.
Here was the inception of the largest exploitation in all history of one race by another — with the heartless barbarity of the tribal wars whose victims were sold to the European slavers, the incredible suffering of the trans - Atlantic passage, and the cruelties inflicted in the plantations of the New World.
Over the past few days, Feronia Inc., a Canadian - based company majority - owned by European and US development banks, has been pressuring local communities to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that would endorse the company's continued operation and expansion of oil palm plantations within their territories.
There we were met by Marie and Gerry Sharp, a genial couple who gave us a guided tour of their plantation and their Melinda's hot sauce bottling operation.
By Kathryn Jones lthough corporate - run poultry plantations continue to infiltrate the market, Armstrong Egg Farms in Valley Center, Calif., remains steadfast in its post as a leading family owned egg farm in southern California.
This interesting sauce is the Caribbean oil - based variation on the African sauce from Angola, which was transferred to the region by Portuguese immigrants working the cacao plantations in Trinidad and Guyana.
Our certifications verify the palm plantations we source from are not developed by removing rain forests, but by converting pre-existing agricultural land to palm oil production.
By preserving the cascara, FutureCeuticals brings opportunity and revenue streams to family plantations, and reintroduces coffee fruit nutrition to the world.
If this conversion occurs, will robusta be grown under shade, or will shaded arabica coffee plantations or forests be replaced by robusta grown in sun monocultures?
The process of producing NUCO Organic Refined Coconut Oil begins with gathering fresh organic coconuts from pristine Philippine Coconut Plantations untouched by fertilizers or pesticides.
Hi, In today's coffee chain, are the coffee plantation owned by the retail chains like starbucks, peets etc..
The trees, simply called Brazil nut trees, need to be pollinated by bees and can only do so in pristine conditions, which is why they do poorly on plantations.
The coffee is certified by Australian Certified Organic, and grown and processed on the plantation.
RSPO's plans for 2018 build on a milestone 2017, where the first ever RSPO Next — that is, a stricter variation of RSPO rules that prohibit deforestation and peatland development, among other things — was attained by Malaysian firm United Plantations and Colombian company Daabon; and zoos and aquariums all over the world started a movement to educate consumers on sustainable palm oil.
The likelihood that Maunsel White and Edmund McIlhenny were more than mere acquaintances is certainly enhanced by the fact that prominent New Orleans banker Edmund McIlhenny married plantation owner Daniel Averys daughter, Mary Eliza Avery, on June 30, 1859 in St. James Episcopal Church in Baton Rouge.
John Marsh was assisted by his second son, George Marsh (d. 1859) in operating the islands sugar plantation.
Kellogg said it will require all global palm oil suppliers to trace palm oil to independently verified plantations, and comply with the principles of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) by the end of 2015.
Amnesty International has uncovered «systemic» cases of child labour and labour rights abuses in Indonesian palm oil plantations operated by Wilmar, tracing the palm oil back to firms including Nestlé, Unilever and Kellogg — companies that all claim to...
Sustainable palm oil is defined by the eight principles and criteria against which oil palm plantations are certified.
Research carried out by the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Centre in Colombia and Mexico showed over 90 percent fewer bird species in sun - grown coffee plantations as opposed to shade - grown coffee59.
By maintaining abundant forest cover in shade coffee plantations, they can function as buffer zones and can form the backbone to the biological corridor linking the two national parks and other forest fragments.
Therefore, our updated commitment is to purchase only sustainable palm oil that is fully traceable to the plantations by 2019.
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