Sentences with phrase «driven by farmers»

In the end, however, sustainable transformation will not only be driven by farmers or by conservation organizations like ours.

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And it's likely that the Sinaloa cartel is driving much of that production: In 2014, it is believed that the production of opium increased 50 % in Mexico, and in Guerrero state, a hotbed for heroin production, farmers and officials told The New York Times that the trade is controlled by the Sinaloa cartel — whose opium and marijuana fields in the country reportedly cover 23,000 miles, an area larger than Costa Rica.

The event will be attended by thousands of victims from all walks of life - soldiers who lost limbs clearing landmines, mothers whose children were forcibly recruited by the rebels, never to be seen again and farmers driven off their land by right - wing paramilitary groups.

We'd have to multiply that timeline of accomplishments and expansion by 5,000 times to approach the time it would take for our species to evolve... so are you arguing that we have been here 5,000 times the thousands of years we took already to climb from dirt farmers to technology - driven cultures?

They violate health codes, torture animals, pay minimum wages with minimum benefits, prevent workers from unionizing, import plastic crap from China (Walmart), pollute the environment (Tyson), drive once proud poultry farmers into becoming wage slaves (Tyson), sell cheap products with high - profits produces by «modern slaves» in China and other third - world countries (Walmart),... WWJB?

This hackathon is unique not only because of its focus on agricultural technology, but also because it is driven by IRRI's mission: • reduce poverty and hunger • improve the health of rice farmers and consumers • ensure that rice production is environmentally sustainable.

It will be interesting to see whether farmers will be driven purely by price or other factors will come into play, such as preferring to be part of an Australian - owned operator such as Bega Cheese, which has been widely tipped in the media as an interested party for a full takeover or some key assets.

The launch is part of Arla's drive to support its farmer owners and become a leading household brand by adding value to its milk, through the development of innovative products, with a focus on the inherent naturalness of dairy.

Also the milk price received by many dairy farmers is not as high as winter when peak milk prices are often paid to drive winter production.

NSW's Liverpool Plains has seen some strong farm sales driven by miners but in the latest deal farmers won the bid at auction.

To the free trade dogma, Graham adds the «free market dogma [which] has given Australia the duopoly of Woolworths and Coles who have driven farmers from the land by reducing profit margins for producers to miniscule levels and requiring them to use every technical device available to maximise yields.»

«The merger will create the strongest mission - driven certification program in the country,» said CCOF Executive Director Cathy Calfo, «supported by a trade association of nearly 4,000 certified farmers, ranchers, and processors, and a robust educational foundation.»

Spot Goes to the Farm, by Eric Hill Suspend your sense of reality for a few minutes as you read about Spot, a cartoon dog who drives a tractor and shows his farmer dog dad that he can find the new baby chicks.

They are the product of a narrow, top - down approach driven not by the needs of farmers, consumers or the environment, but of seed and chemical companies driven by profit.

Farmers make the fuel by chemically treating corn kernels to isolate the sugars and then feeding the sugars to yeast, which digests them and secretes ethanol.Not only do the corn husks and stalks go to waste, but ethanol production has driven up the price of the corn that is used for food by reducing its availability.

For example, when you read the sentence, «The farmer drove the tractor to the barn,» you understand that sentence by using your experiences with farmers, driving, and barns to simulate the action described in the sentence.

The water crisis is being driven by several factors: climate change, an expanding population, local mismanagement and a greater demand on farmers.

For Mr. Afsar Ali Miah, a Bangladeshi farmer, «Nothing comes in free anymore, without its consequence, especially if it is driven by profit motives.»

We're a mission - driven cooperative, owned by family farmers, and we've been leaders in organic agriculture from the very beginning.

Instead we decided to go to a local market and pick out our fall décor.Cirian's Farmers Market in Omaha is just a few blocks away from our house and I drive by everyday on my way home from work, admiring the beautiful flowers and plants they always have outside.

We battled the wind, we could see the lightning in the distance, the farmer drove by in his tractor (probably shaking his head at the crazy person dressed up in a «costume» taking pictures) and there were a lot of outtakes owing to hair being tossed about - but at least I wasn't wearing a circle skirt!

«The Grapes of Wrath»: Released a year after John Steinbeck's 1939 landmark novel, the John Ford - directed drama stars Henry Fonda as Oklahoma parolee Tom Joad, whose family of farmers are driven out of work by the Great Depression.

In the late»80s, four - wheel - drive vehicles were simpler machines, often owned by hunters, farmers, and ranchers who didn't mind putting a knee in the dirt to twist their truck's hubs to lock the front axle, but the increased popularity of SUVs and crossovers has led to the democratization of all - wheel drive, giving laypeople the ability to tackle tough terrain as well as the IKEA parking lot.

A Farmers Insurance Group survey found that 69.2 percent of respondents admitted to exceeding the posted speed limit on the highway; 36 percent said they regularly exceed the posted speed limit by five or more mph; and 22 percent said they repeatedly drive 10 or more mph in excess of the speed limit.

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Over time, Bullenbeissers lost their jobs on estates and began to be used by farmers and butchers to guard and drive cattle.

They are thought to have descended from a variety of European herding breeds, and were developed by sheep farmers to herd and drive sheep to market.

Sheepmen and cattlemen developed breeds to herd and drive, farmers and businessmen founded breeds to hunt vermin and guard the hearth, shooters designed the ultimate bird dogs and spent hours by the fire debating the virtues of this or that setter or retriever.

On just a short drive to Castle Bran (Dracula's Castle), you'll encounter horse - drawn carriages and farmers working the fields by hand.

Blizzard hopes this system will help drive gold farmers out of business by giving players a secure way to purchase in - game currency.

Support your Local Artist — similar to how people want to support their local farmer or buy from a boutique, mom - and - pop shop (even if they don't know who they are), we found buyers wanted to do the same with artists (this was also driven by wanting a picture of the local landmark or landscape), but like local farms they didn't have the time to go to open studios or art fairs.

It suggests three major changes: 1) project and policy preparation need to reflect higher risks, where vulnerability assessments and greater use of climate scenario modelling are combined with a better understanding of interconnections between smallholder farming and wider landscapes; 2) this deeper appreciation of interconnected risks should drive a major scaling up of successful «multiple - benefit» approaches to sustainable agricultural intensification by smallholder farmers; 3) climate change and fiscal austerity are reshaping the architecture of public international development finance.

«We are proud of this recognition by ACR of our nine years of work with Midwest farmers to create and implement market - driven solutions to build environmental resilience, such as the Delta Nitrogen Credit Program,» said Delta Institute CEO Jean Pogge.

While only a fraction of this cultivation currently occurs in the Amazon rainforest, production in neighboring areas like the cerrado grassland helps drive deforestation by displacing small farmers and cattle producers, who then clear rainforest land for subsistence agriculture and pasture.

As many as half of all land transfers from subsistence farmers to agro-businesses are driven by biofuels.

Australia's food supply chain is highly exposed to disruption from increasing extreme weather events driven by climate change, with farmers already struggling to cope with more frequent and intense droughts and changing weather patterns.

It seems the rest of the country is forgetting that the Occupy movement is a spin - off of the spontaneous several - months - long occupation of the Wisconsin State Capitol, driven by the entire democratic caucus of the state senate leaving the state and a massive outpouring of support for them, not just from liberals and hard - left malcontents, but from farmers, laborers, police, firemen, and teachers.

The Oakland Institute has been talking for years about increasing food security by increasing food sovereignty in poor nations, rather than fighting hunger by dumping cheap, overproduced food from rich countries, driving local farmers in those poor countries out of business.

Whether that's increasing farmers» income by improving the quality of its product, or cutting overhead costs at McDonald's restaurants through energy efficiency measures, these actions are driving progress.

He also knows that with increasingly common extreme weather causing droughts for Delaware farmers and driving violent storms toward its coasts, climate change is a real threat that must be addressed by innovating away from reliance on fossil fuels.

«A lot of [of Mexican migration] is being driven either by vulnerability to crop loss, or wage laborers losing their jobs because farmers can no long afford to hire them,» said Arizona State University development economist Valerie Mueller.

It is a disparity that may not be so apparent in the Northeastern states, where families generally earn more, drive shorter distances or have better access to public transportation.Benefits of Mule Power But with gas approaching $ 4 a gallon, T.R. and Danny Raymond, two farmers on a 40 - acre farm in McMinnville, Tennessee, have now switched over by modifying their equipment to shift the weight equally between two mules.

Organically grown food, while a preferable choice for green shoppers in grocery stores and farmers markets, isn't necessarily the same thing as food grown using smart carbon farming practices, and though the two aren't mutually exclusive, demand for organics is driven more by marketing, while the other is still a bit of a mystery to the average person.

It is most often the farmers that are forced to lower their price because they fear being stuck with a spoiled perishable product or they risk losing their buyer who, driven by price, buys from another farm.

In Greenland, we know that Viking farmers settled in what was a much warmer period in Greenland than we have today (thus the oddly inappropriate name for the island) and were eventually driven out by falling temperatures.

Then the transport driven by soccer moms and Bangkok farmers will be made by «someone else» and we may become economically irrelevant.

Summary: The plaintiff, a farmer, was injured while driving an uninsured all - terrain vehicle (ATV) on a public road when he was struck from behind by a