Sentences with phrase «get small farmers»

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.

Not exact matches

The first person to get Google Balloon Internet access this week was Charles Nimmo, a farmer and entrepreneur in the small town of Leeston.

Regular Australians will be able to invest small amounts in different farms around the country and get it straight into the hands of the farmers.

Mostly, it's not small - scale farmers that are getting rich off the almond boom.

«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.

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.

«We work with a lot of local farmers and get our products from small farms when they are in season,» David Painter explains.

We made it with fresh farmers market apples, almonds we ground ourselves (live in crazy small town and could not get get already ground), and used the maple syrup option.

When they returned from the city they caught up on some office paperwork and then they were back in the paddocks to help their small staff organise their day and get ready for Saturday's farmers» market.

Rainforest Alliance recently announced the release of an important study outlining an overlooked benefit for farmers of achieving certification: the ability to get larger and more frequent small loans.

If you want a smaller, more low - key setting, there's a Wednesday market just called the Main St. Farmers» Market; it's where I get my produce and soap.

«As smaller farmers got out of the business, we took 15 to 20 of the largest growers and began packing and marketing for them out of our packinghouse and acting as a sales agent.»

Amafruits pitaya fruits are organically grown and sustainably harvested by small, family farmers then cubed and flash frozen, so you can be guaranteed the same freshness and rich nutritional benefits as you would get in the Amazon.

WASHINGTON - As the U.S. Senate gets set to again take up the Farm Bill in the coming weeks, New York Junior Senator Senator is saying there needs to be long - term support and a fair safety net for small dairy farmers in New York State and across the... [Read more...]

Pennsylvania created 232,000 new jobs at $ 60,000 a year plus, small communities and counties in Northern Pennsylvania are paying off their debt, farmers and other property owners are getting huge royalties and Pennsylvania is enjoying an economic boom from fracking, which cost the taxpayers nothing.

Head to the local farmers market and look for small - batch, artisanal vendors to get the best, close - to - organic quality.

This earthy Taurus new moon sends an honorable nod to the food producers of the world, encouraging us to «get our farmer on» in some small way.

Get in the habit of checking out what veggies, meat, milk, eggs, and honey you can buy locally and you'll be supporting small farmers and sustainable agriculture (plus it's often cheaper).

1st you have stated that salmon consumption should be kept at no more than a 1 lb a week, and that chicken is high in omega 6 so consumption should be limited, I buy grass fed beef from a local farmer and so I have been getting the majority of my protein from eggs, grass fed beef, fermented milk (1/2 to 1 cup a day) small amounts of grass fed pork, chicken about once a month and salmon and sardines 2 - 3 days most weeks.

Touchback sounds like it blends the Dennis Quaid baseball pic The Rookie (down - on - his - luck sports type gets a second chance) with 17 Again (lead gets transported back to a younger version of himself and starts to change his life decisions) as it finds Brian Presley as a small - town farmer / volunteer fire fighter who can't stop dreaming of the moment his football career was cut short by an injury.

While kids get fresher foods, independent farmers get large, stable contracts — no small benefit in a nation losing 2 acres of farmland to development every minute.

They were created by smaller farmers and tradesmen who didn't have the capital requirements to engage in business with the bigger banks, and who couldn't get loans.

TORONTO — Ontario home owners, farmers and small businesses will get some relief from soaring electricity prices starting in January when the provincial portion of the harmonized sales tax is removed from hydro bills.

To get to Lee Bontecou's studio, you take a train from New York, through Philadelphia, past rolling farmlands and small towns and the curious contradictions of the Pennsylvania landscape: the ominous white towers of Three Mile Island on one side, an Amish farmer plowing behind four sturdy horses on the other.

To get an idea of how the group's projects work, explore the details of the effort in Sofala, Mozambique, where farmers get a small payment for the carbon - absorbing value of adding a tree crop, cashews, to their plantings.

He is wrong that A) we have to do so by all becoming small farmers, B) that if that were desirable we could do so easily, C) that economics is not science, D) that it doesn't help to use renewable energy instead of fossil fuels, E) that government policies are irrelevant, and most of all, that F) what he says is clear, but everybody is either too stupid and lazy to get it or is deliberately lying about it.

Re subsidies: I've heard that small produce farmers don't get subsidies.

A small dairy farmer gets capital to install digesters on his farm to control methane emissions.»

Indeed, I get the impression that reducing western incomes to that of an African small hold farmer or the urban impoverished of Kolkata is the main aim of many warminista — aka pissant progressives.

In the US, a bunch of farmers got fleeced for $ millions as a wind power outfit running two small wind farms went belly up on the prairie (see our post here).

One local farmer, who is not part of the program at this point, said his biggest concern is that its funding — which comes from a large grant — will disappear somehow at some point in the near future and then you'd have these small farms who have ramped up production a bit to meet the demands of these large local chains getting stuck with a whole bunch of product they wouldn't be able to move.

Meanwhile small, family organic farmers can barely afford to renew their organic certifications and the gas it takes to get their produce to the local farmers market.

Top transport Tractors, combine harvesters, diggers, lorries... the list of vehicles and machinery that run through country lanes is enough to get any small child excited, particularly when the farmers let you sit up in the driving seat.