Sentences with phrase «other peasant farmers»
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.
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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 %.
At the same time, an international association launched a study on the peasant - farmer movement of Burkina Faso, and other three West African countries.
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 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.
When these displaced farmers move to cities seeking work, they will find other peasants, indigenous people and artisanal fishing people who lost their lands for similar reasons.
On the other hand, peasant farmers around the world have always had informal seed networks that provide them with life giving seeds if they can't secure it on their own.