Sentences with phrase «for smaller farmers»

With all these benefits for smaller farmers, one wonders why they are not the ones protesting against being denied these enabling technologies.

«That will be replaced with a dairy risk management program which allows more flexibility for smaller farmers to be a part of it,» Stefanik said.

«It's not good for our small farmers, our small companies, when the big companies get to rewrite the laws,» said Annie, a 17 - year - old Berliner who came out to the demonstrations with her classmates.

I am very happy to be here because this meeting takes place at a very opportune moment and also because it is necessary to question the prevailing model of globalisation which is extremely destructive for the smallest and the weakest in our society and particularly for the small farmers.

A change in the U.S. pricing and subsidy system might not make enormous differences for small farmers worldwide, but with many of the world's farmers living on less than $ 1 per day, small differences turn out to be significant.

Bettering the economics for small farmers in Africa, Asia, South and Central America requires a comprehensive approach, one that takes into account improving agricultural practices, enhancing supply chain infrastructures, expanding community services, boosting farmer incomes and taking advantage of evolving technologies.

Reducing food loss in supermarkets is an important issue in terms of the efforts to increase profit in supermarkets, to increase income for small farmers supplying to supermarkets, and to improve food security in urban areas, as well as avoid environmental problems caused by food waste.

«MAP's Farmhouse does just that, creating an urban food hub that providing new markets for small farmers and greater access to affordable, nutritious food for residents.»

Mango revenues alone bring millions of dollars into the Senegalese economy, and Sidy Gueye, the coordinator, said that horticulture here is big business for small farmers.

A plantation in Ethiopia's Gambela region, owned by a Saudi Arabian billionaire, diverts water from the Alwero River, according to a June 2012 report from GRAIN, a non-profit organization that advocates for small farmers.

The new crop strains were dependent on mechanization, controlled irrigation, and artificial, petroleum - based fertilizers for their astonishing productivity, making it hard for small farmers to compete and dramatically increasing the use of pesticides.

Steam engines were still much too expensive for the small farmer, but in a few short years that would change.

The design is solid but constructions such as these were too expensive for small farmers.

«We are on a constant hunt for new, low - cost, chemical - free technologies for milk preservation, especially for small farmers in low - income countries,» said Dr. Golberg.

The SFLF pilot model seems to be a very attractive option for small farmers who can significantly increase their income by harmonizing and synchronizing selected operations to achieve scale and gain bargaining power in input purchase and output sales.

With the news that the US State of Colorado has decided to make it legal for small farmers to collect rainwater - holding out the possibility that city dwellers, too, may one day be offered legal means to harvest rain - a tipping point approaches.

The Real Effect on Small Farms I can't imagine this resulting in anything more than a little paperwork and a brief headache for small farmers — they have no reason to worry about a seven figure fine.

While the new data shows how fires present a major challenge to reaching this goal, Indonesia can still make progress if the government focuses on better land planning, improved law enforcement, and alternatives for small farmers to burning land.

For small farmers and communities in rural El Salvador, water is more valuable than gold.

The report predicts that world demand for crops — whether for food, livestock feed or biofuels — will double in the next 50 years, while natural resources necessary to agriculture are becoming scarce or degraded due to the impacts of global climate change.According to the report, areas of focus include sub-Saharan Africa, with the report indicating that farm subsidies for commodities such as cotton and oilseeds in wealthier countries need to be changed as they force prices down for small farmers in developing nations.

Not exact matches

Farmers, on the other hand, prefer a much higher percentage of their compensation to be salary with a small commission built in for exceeding their goals.

Visitors will eventually tour the facilities where small farmers test, dry, cure, trim, process, and package marijuana for distribution; learn about the plant in seminars and pairing dinners; and stay at an on - site, pot - friendly bed and breakfast.

SokoText, from students at the London School of Economics, has been testing similar technology in Mathare Valley, Nairobi, by sending text messages from small - scale rural farmers to individuals in slums who want to secure wholesale prices for healthy produce once it arrives at a market.

Some years back, a small Colorado goat - cheese maker called Haystack Mountain faced its version of a classic growth challenge: National demand was growing for its chèvres and other cheeses, and the company was struggling to find enough local goat farmers to produce milk.

Not an insignificant accomplishment for a family of potato farmers from the small village of Florenceville, N.B., who built the world's largest manufacturer of frozen potatoes.

The impact will be enormous, particularly for the 25 million small land - holder farmers who grow coffee in more than 70 countries.

From farmers in South Dakota to musicians in Kentucky to small business owners in Utah, net neutrality is just as important to redditors as it is to Reddit and we will continue to advocate for and work constructively to maintain a free and open Internet.

So Gill would buy them, then resell them to farmers in his community for a small profit.

All for the sake of what is now a very small number of relatively wealthy dairy, poultry and egg farmers.

Passage of this bill will be a big win for Main Street in rural America and the small financial institutions that help our families, farmers, and small businesses thrive.»

The primary justification for the proposed tax changes was that high - income individuals (e.g., doctors, small business owners, farmers, among others) were using the tax system to reduce their income tax by incorporating CCPCs to conduct their businesses or carry on their professional practises This meant that individuals with the same income could end up paying different taxes and this, according to the Finance Minister and the Prime Minister was «unfair».

But while tractors were now cheaper than ever, they could still be $ 600 or more — too much for many smaller - scale farmers — while most conversion kits were less than half that.

Differential access to credit and markets, for example, means that small farmers and businesses can not compete with large plantations and corporations that are export - oriented.

The «small proprietors, artisans, tradesmen, and farmers» of the petty - bourgeois world were the least likely «to mistake the promised land of progress for the true and only heaven.»

And after the farmer there came small villages, the need for churches and schools.

Mario Luis Lill of Brazil's «Movement of the Landless»: «The MST is a movement for those without land, the small peasant - farmers of Brazil who are struggling principally for ownership of land.

It consisted mainly of small farmers and, near the sea of Galilee, of fishermen, with artisans like carpenters and tanners, with enough shepherds to make the symbols of the lost sheep and the good shepherd meaningful, and with small - town merchants to provide for the exchange of the few goods needed to meet the simple requirements of the people.

During the 1980s, small farmers saw the market for their food products disappear.

Many Colombians believe that they are its intended result, that the real aim of the war against insurgents and against drugs is really to get small farmers off their land in order to make room for development.

SAP creates more unemployment through the process of privatization, retrenchment of workers, the closing of local industries due to import liberalization, the displacement of small farmers due to foreign subsidized imports and cut in agricultural subsidies such as for fertilizers and water and reduction of marketing facilities.

But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

Christianity «had partaken of the fruits of slavery in the Roman Empire for centuries, and later did nothing to prevent the slave trade of Christians».32 It required of the small farmer to transfer the title to his land and his independence to its growing power.

This need calls for a reorientation of research in major universities and institutes toward the social and technical problems of assistance to small subsistence farmers.

I think an equally valid question is: «Would Jesus reduce the excise tax on sugar beet and metal - tipped shoe lace imports from the eastern Caucuses region as a means to expand trade opportunities for moderate income European farmers and small - to - mid-size shoe lace facatories?»

My best tips for eating vegan on a budget are: When possible buy in bulk, and always shop seasonally and plant a garden, big or small, take advantage of farmer's markets and stands.

This seems unsurprising given Hunt spent many years in a policy role with the Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF), a body whose reputation for attacking small - scale farmers is incrFarmers Federation (VFF), a body whose reputation for attacking small - scale farmers is incrfarmers is increasing.

Cameron Mynott of Australian Pasture Fresh says, «it is imperative for the future of sustainable, ethical, regenerative farming, that small - scale farmers be able to run under a common - sense, outcomes - based legislation.

For some years now, the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) has been monitoring APL's support for small - scale farmers, and what we have witnessed is in fact a systematic campaign to undermine the efforts of the growing number of small - scale pastured pig farmeFor some years now, the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) has been monitoring APL's support for small - scale farmers, and what we have witnessed is in fact a systematic campaign to undermine the efforts of the growing number of small - scale pastured pig farmefor small - scale farmers, and what we have witnessed is in fact a systematic campaign to undermine the efforts of the growing number of small - scale pastured pig farmers.

This follows the model of TransfairUSA (now rebranded as FairtradeUSA) in lowering standards so that plantations could get certified in a system meant for the 25 million small scale farmers around the world.

I used regular orange carrots from the store in the above picture, however if you have any farmers markets near you that sell purple carrots or other colours, these can make a great change and will certainly grab the attention of others at the table (as shown in the picture below) Instead of cutting these carrots up, as they are usually smaller, these can be roasted whole, use more carrots per person for these type too.