Sentences with phrase «peasant farmers in»

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.

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.

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?

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.

Not exact matches

To carry out this study, some peasant - farmer organisations participated in a consultative group.

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

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 this way they used the peasant - farmer organisations as alibis.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Wage - workers, propertyless peasants, domestics, and poor artisans were assumed to be too dependent to participate fully in politics; small farmers and artisans deserved political rights but should defer to their betters in most political decisions — the truly virtuous wealthy landowners.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 storIn 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 storin 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.

Factor in net debt, and the excessive (annual) cash - burn rate, and Continental Farmers is worth about as much as the typical Ukrainian peasant's savings a / c...

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.

If you are for instance an Indian peasant farmer or a Mongolian herdsman, your life will likely not change in any significant way.

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.

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.