Sentences with phrase «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.

It is not surprising therefore that peasant farmers in Brazil, for example, have a staple diet of rice and beans.

Well before Mei long turned up, Yixian was well known for its beautifully preserved fossilised fish, insects and turtles, which were — and still are — collected and sold by peasant farmers.

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

And we needed to live as peasant farmers.

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.

Moreover, sugar cane requires fertilizer and deprives poor peasant farmers of land which could otherwise be used to grow food.

Surely there were shepherds in town that day, some street women, perhaps even a tax collector or unlearned peasant farmers.

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.

The new African Green Revolution would initially subsidize peasant farmers» access to high - yield technologies and thereby at least double grain yields.

One clue comes from his fieldwork among the Zapotec, peasant farmers descended from an ancient, warring civilization in Oaxaca, Mexico.

The paper examines how the shift to technified coffee for mass production and to meet greater demand hurt peasant farmers of those countries and had a major ecological influence there, especially with the amount of water required for the crops.

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.

Most of what we know about land grabs comes from press reports collated by GRAIN, an NGO based in Barcelona, Spain, that campaigns for peasant farmers.

Way back in the 1800s, an Austrian peasant farmer called Vincenz Priessnitz, popularized a powerful ancient remedy that had people from all over the country, flocking to him and queuing up at his door.

The Violin (Unrated) Intergenerational political potboiler, set in Mexico, about a trio of traveling troubadours, a grandfather (Angel Tavira), his son (Gerardo Taracena), and grandson (Mario Garibaldi), who pose as harmless musicians while secretly helping to arm the guerilla movement of peasant farmers intent on overthrowing the government's oppressive regime.

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.

Ironically moves towards geoengineering may close down agroecological options: CDR [Carbon Dioxide Removal] approaches such as BECCS [Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Sequestration] would grab even more peasant lands to grow biomass feedstocks (causing suffering); sulfate aerosols may disrupt the very tropical climates that peasant farmers rely on (causing suffering?)

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.

(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.

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.

«A sufficiently powerful AI could realize the bureaucrat's dream of accurately predicting peasant farmers» potato yields months in advance from thousands of miles away.

I came from hard - working peasant farmers and I've done well and now it's my time to give back.»

But for most rural peasant farmers, life was simpler and generally, far more difficult.

In the past it thrived on chicle, and maize grown by peasant farmers.

The long - term solution is, first, to reduce population, and second, nearly as important, to increase the output of millions of peasant farmers around the globe.

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

There, we worked with local indigenous and peasant farmer groups to challenge the state's efforts to implement REDD without free, prior and informed consent.

Instead of the land being given to the poor peasant farmers, the political elite became owners, including Robert Mugabe and influential members of ZANU - PF.

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

On May 13,1572 one may have been killed by a peasant farmer in Italy (pg 41 «The Great Dinosaur Mystery» by Paul Taylor ISBN 0 -89636-264-7).

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.

Students who spend extended time in seeking to understand this problem and propose steps toward its solution will have to become conversant with the interconnections of climate, soils, agricultural practices, the social context of farmers, the relation of peasant farmers and agribusiness, governmental policies that affect the production of food, the earth's natural resources, technology, the various existing and possible economies, and many other things.

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.

Farm sizes range from large, well - established operations to the small peasant farmers» plots, many less than half an acre.

It is through education that the daughter of a peasant farmer can become a doctor, that a son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a nation»

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.

«While there are many Nigerians who see the conflict between the nomadic herdsmen and peasant farmers as an ethnic problem, others point to religious differences and agenda.

The Programme Officer for the Association, Charles Kwowe Nyaaba, in a Citi News interview said the current plan excludes over 70 % of peasant farmers.

If one could choose between being a peasant farmer in Ethiopia or a bushman gatherer in the Kalahari, which do you think would be the better choice?

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

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.

«I'm from a peasant farmer sort of background,» he says.

Von Rydingsvard's ancestral family were peasant farmers and wood featured as an integral part of everyday life.

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.

The peasant farmer is not going to take a risk and turn over the apple cart, even if it is exploitative, if the buyer is unwilling to be there when things go sour and, eventually, everywhere things go sour.