Sentences with phrase «large plantations»

He even served as a medic in the Confederate army during the Civil War, but was disheartened to learn how the sons of large plantation owners had been exempted from the military draft.

Rice has called on the Australian government to sponsor large plantations in north Queensland.

As with many traditional forms of agriculture around the world, the cacao industry in Belize was almost extinct due to the industrial agriculture practices of deforestation and growing cacao on large plantations.

The second strategy takes the opposite tack, creating large plantations of cacao trees in Bahia, Brazil, at higher altitude — out of the traditional pest and disease ranges — in the full sun and irrigating them with fertilizer - enriched water for maximum productivity.

Shouldn't the title of this article be «Rainforest Alliance Lowers Standards to Seek Greater Licensing Fees from Large Plantations»?

Step inside the colonial - era great house owned by Jamaica's largest plantation owner in the 1700s.

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.

Malaysia's Felda Global Ventures Holdings, the world's third largest plantation operator, said on June 6 that it had suspended its chief executive and chief financial officer pending the investigation of «certain transactions» at one of its subsidiaries.

Transfair fought the farmers year after year and finally just did this anyway, allowing large companies here and large plantations there to get in on the fair trade markets.

Large plantations bribe local officials to give them additional land titles, making it hard for others to obtain them legally.

In 1986, Equal Exchange was founded to challenge the existing trade model, which favors large plantations, agri - business, and multi-national corporations; support small farmers; and connect consumers and producers through information, education, and the exchange of products in the marketplace.

In fact there are quite large plantations both in Canada and US, but its not at the level from Europe, where the demand is growing.

When I think of «The South» I envision large plantation homes with wrap around front porches, oak trees covered in Spanish Moss and a tall glass of ice tea.

I also never appreciated that the women who were brought up as southern bells found themselves in a position of having to run large plantations without any prior knowledge of how to accomplish this.

The sweet fruit were grown out of large plantation estates, which serve as the inspiration for Plantation at Paradise Point whose lavish architecture is inspired in part by those same historical sites.

Traveling through rural Tanzania (where part of my family still lives) and seeing large plantations of sisal, they're quite impressive, I mean as an aesthetic experience, driving through rows and rows and rows, it's monumental.

For the new master bedroom, Joanna went with a soothing blue - gray and white palette, large plantation shutters, cabriole side tables and a rustic headboard made from repurposed gable vents.

The resulting conflicts, loss of income and dependence on large plantations have had a significant impact of the social welfare of many.

For our customers, we provide access to all the major coffee producing origins, from individual farmers selling a few kilos of coffee cherries in Papua New Guinea to large plantations in Brazil that deal in hundreds of tonnes of export - ready product.

Accordingly, governments cooperated with international agricultural interests to enable them to create large plantations.

Being an introduced crop to Asia, they are mainly harvested from large plantations.

Southern Belize is the site of large plantations that grow citrus, an important export.

They grow all their own coffee on plantations in Brazil (said to be the largest plantation in the world) and Costa Rica.

Though coffee in Mexico primarily comes from small coffee farms rather than large plantations, coffee farmers number over 100,000 and Mexico ranks as one of the largest coffee producing countries in the world.

Each has a large plantation - style verandah with a private jacuzzi, patio furniture and comfy cushioned lounge chairs to laze in the Cornish sunshine.

Without in - house research facilities to help breed and identify the best plants, they generate about half the amount of oil per hectare that large plantations can.

David Dickson (Sam Waterston) owns a large plantation, as well as a number of slaves who do the labor required to run it.

It is the eve of the Civil War, on a large plantation in Mississippi and the master pays a unprecedented sum of money for a woman slave said to be a healer.

It was grown on large plantations, but the crash in the world coffee market in 1899 caused plantation owners to have to lease out their land to their workers.

In the 1600s Bermudans began developing salt raking operations on the islands, ruins of large plantations can still be visited.

He and his wife also own a large plantation and managed forest in Georgia, a side of his life illuminated in two of Leavell's three books, Forever Green: The History and Hope of the American Forest, and The Tree Farmer (for children, with Nicholas Cravotta and Rebecca Bleau).

Fairtrade takes issue with the fact that the study's research on non-certified farms covered workers on a variety of farm sizes and large plantations, whereas the Fairtrade sites were all smallholder cooperatives, making for a skewed representation.