Sentences with phrase «of peasant farmers»

Some arid regions will turn into deserts and rising seas will inundate fertile but low lying delta regions that are home to tens of millions of peasant farmers in countries such as Bangladesh and Egypt.

You could see cheap, subsidized food wrecking the lives of peasant farmers around the world.

Governments are pushed to this by the operation of the economy with increasing costs of production, losses of peasant farmers and local companies, with dumping of subsidized foreign goods into their liberalized market.

Even up to 5,000 years ago such settlements were small, consisting of semi-permanent villages of peasant farmers.

In Education Simulations's Real Lives, children take on the persona of a peasant farmer in Bangladesh, a Brazilian factory worker, a police officer in Nigeria, a Polish computer operator, or a lawyer in the United States, among others, experiencing those lives based on real - world statistical data.

(10/05/2010) A UK - based cosmetics firm is severing ties with its palm oil supplier after a story in The Observer reported the Colombia - based company sought the eviction of peasant farmer families to develop a new oil palm plantation, reports the Guardian.

A coalition of peasant farmer groups are protesting their meaningful exclusion at the High Level Conference on Food Security taking place in Spain on January 26 - 27.

Not exact matches

In 1997, one of the largest walks brought together 100,000 people, peasant - farmers without land, in the Brazilian capital.

One of the other areas of activity of MST is also peasant - farmer education, i.e. literacy and schooling, since I should point out that the level of illiteracy in the Brazilian countryside stands at 40 - 50 %.

I come from Burkina Faso, at the heart of West Africa and I represent here a peasant - farmer organisation created in 1996 to build a capability for representation and negotiation, to defend the interests of the farmers faced with certain trends, certain programs, certain policies over which they have no control.

At the same time, an international association launched a study on the peasant - farmer movement of Burkina Faso, and other three West African countries.

No government has really succeeded in bringing about real agrarian reform and, for the moment, since the neo-liberal period, the situation of the landless peasant - farmers has become increasingly serious because the large properties are beginning to find a certain legitimacy once more.

In the South, of course, among the peasant - farmers, the battle against living patent and the genetic genie, is one of the most advanced signs.

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 is as a result of this that we have become part of a peasant - farmer platform bringing together ten West African countries.

Stressing the peasant background of Jesus and acknowledging the role of the social background and artistic skill in molding his thought, Legrand observes, «the type of imagination revealed by the parables is more that of a farmer than that of an artisan.

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.

The peasant life witnesses to the constant efforts on the part of the farmer despite all odds for the sake of mere survival.

God's rule, like the activity of a peasant during an agricultural season, requires cooperation between human beings and the Creator, similar to that between the farmer and the soil.

Unconsciously, perhaps, the subsistence farmer, and even the peasant village, are assimilated to images of an unhistorical nature which serves civilization and industrialization but has no inherent reality.

The need may be for simple improvements in farming implements and seeds for subsistence farmers along with aid to peasant villages for improved hygiene and reforestation of their hills.

Patrons also would provide for peasants and farmers in similar ways, but with different sets of requirements.

MST (Movement of the Landless, from Brazil) FENOP (National Federation of the peasant - farmers organisations, from Burkina Faso) PICIS (Policy and Information Center for International Solidarity, South Korean Trade Union)

Globalization has resulted in gross human rights violations for millions of workers (particularly women workers), peasants and farmers, and indigenous communities.

The peasant farmer in Kenya, Tanzania or any of the developing countries is having to work harder in 1984 than in 1954 or «64 to earn enough money to buy a hoe or a gallon of kerosene.

** The term «peasants» has very different meanings around the world, but is the preferred label of smallholder farmers in the food sovereignty movement.

Agri - TNCs Network - Philippines, MASIPAG (Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag - unlad ng Agrikultura), KMP (Kilusang Mangbubukid ng Pilipinas), PNSFP (Philippine Network for Food Security Programs), SIBAT (Sibol ng Agham at Teknolohiya), HEAD (Health action for Democracy), PAN Phils (Pesticide Action Network - Phils, TFIP (Philippine Task Force for Indigenous Peoples Rights), CENDI (Community Entrepreneur Development Institute), SRD (Center for Sustainable Rural Development), Vietnam, SPFT (Southern Peasants Federation of Thailand), AGRA (Alliance of Agrarian Reform Movement), SERUNI National Women's Alliance, Indonesia, NWFA (National Women Farmers and Workers Association), BAFLF (Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation), SHISUK (Shikha Shastha Unnayan Karzakram), Bangladesh, APVUU (Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union), ORRISSA (Organization for Rural Reconstruction and Integrated Social Services Activities), CREATE, India THANAL, India, Save Our Rice Network, India, PAN-INDIA (Pesticide Action Network - India), India, GRAIN, PAN-AP (Pesticide Action Network - Asia Pacific), APC (Asian Peasants Coalition), Consumers Union of Japan, Women's Development Federation WELIGEPOLA, MONLAR, Sri Lanka

We, or more specifically Fair Food Farmers, have also been invited as observers to La Via Campesina, and this is an important first step in a long process of potentially joining the world's largest peasant farmer organisation.

They are representatives of peasant and family farmers, landless, rural women and rural youth, fishers and fish workers, agricultural workers, hunters and gatherers, pastoralists and herders, indigenous peoples and food consumers.

The important contribution of resource - poor peasants and indigenous farmers to non-certified organic agriculture is highlighted and reviewed.

3rd layer original Greek sheep farmers peasant trousers once worn by Demis Roussos in one of his famous videos.

In an occasion, CPI Marxist wanted to evict some poor peasants out of their lands by pursuing a pro-Chinese (CPI Marxist is perhaps the only pro-China communist party of India) policy, trying to industrialise West Bengal fast on the cost of leaving poor farmers homeless and landless, and joining a capitalist pro-globalisation economic program.

Colombia I've got a real passion to work against Colombia's appalling human rights conditions, where the government will just publically declare that the opposition leaders or trade unionists must be terrorists... literally thousands of people — human rights activists, lawyers, journalists, university lecturers, peasant farmers, anybody who speaks out about the regime — find themselves assassinated.

Mahama Seidu added that, as peasant farmers, they could not pay their children's school fees because of the decline in agriculture.

«Especially these peasant farmers who maybe have a small plot of land, they rely almost exclusively on coffee sales to sustain themselves,» Myers said.

As early as 700 B.C., Chinese authorities were encouraging peasant farmers to move into remote regions of the plateau, citing the need to feed a large and growing population while establishing a buffer of human settlement against the threat of nomadic invaders along its northern border.

Mikhail Gorbachev, born into a peasant family in 1931, lived through Stalin's «Great Terror,» when the dictator deliberately starved millions of farmers to force them onto collective farms.

By studying the skeletons of farmers, peasants, monks, and nobles, paleopathologists hope to find out what diseases killed people from medieval times until the present — and how their overall health fluctuated during famine, war, climate change, and other challenges.

In Gwent, this state of affairs is represented by a deck of peasants and farmers being played onto a board where a special unit like a barricade or siege weapon needs to be protected for a certain number of rounds (by buffing or healing) in order to progress the story.

Many place accepted heroes of socialist realism — farmers, peasants, soldiers, partisans — in bleak narratives of primitive passions in primeval landscapes.

My parents were peasant farmers, members of the Kikuyu community, one of forty - two ethnic groups in Kenya and then, as now, the most populous.

Maathai's parents were peasant farmers and members of the Kikuyu ethnic group.

Hailing from northwestern Europe, the Karelian Bear Dog was the dog of choice for Russian and Finnish farmers, hunters and peasants.

The game also models two of the main driving conflicts of Chinese society, that between the peasants and the nobles, and that between the farmers and the nomads.

Yet while nearly every frame carries the memory of war, his work is marked by an overwhelming humanity and sensitivity: careful portraits of soldiers, peasants, farmers and refugees, all rendered with equal compassion, whether a muscular fighter posing with a grenade launcher or the damaged body of the victim of a land mine.

Another important trend was the production of genre paintings with humorous portrayals of life, such as Threshing Rice (1780), in which Gim Hongdo (1745 - 1806) depicts a lazing, pipe - smoking farmer overseeing hard - working peasants.

The coyote typically «loan sharks» the peasant farmer small amounts of cash during the dry season — when the farmer is profoundly desperate — in exchange for his entire harvest, or for pennies on the dollar.

TIAA - CREF's land acquisition is part of a trend leading to expropriation of land from indigenous people, Afro - Brazilian quilombolas, and other peasant farmers, and driving the destruction of the fragile Cerrado ecosystem.

Magazine I outlined a bit of what occurred at the meeting, and tried to describe what I see as the cultural rift that makes it difficult, well nigh impossible, for government agencies and global bodies to engage in meaningful dialogue with indigenous and peasant farmer communities.

The previous chief justice, Anthony Gubbay, had ruled against peasant farmer Samson Mhuriro and 26 co-applicants who wanted the court to prevent the owners of the farms they had invaded from evicting them.