Sentences with phrase «peasant village»

In India that meant the development of the economy of the existing peasant villages in which most Indians then lived.

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.

It calls for the development of existing peasant villages so that they can become more productive rather than their replacement by agribusiness.

Back then, when someone explicitly identifies him or herself as a «Christian», the image is someone who does missionary work, living among peasant villages, not to prosyletyze but to provide education, basic health care, and crisis relief.

The few surviving sites were small, unassuming peasant villages.

The markets connected people in even the smallest peasant villages with the larger informal Aztec economy of central Mexico.

It looks almost out of place — a leafy oasis in a sea of humanity, a spot of nature amid peasant villages and irrigated rice and manioc farms.

That's because your average medieval peasant village did not have a weather station, and neither Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit nor Anders Celsius had yet been born.

Agriculture is of more basic importance than industry, the peasant village than the city.

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 first American exhibition to comprehensively survey India's ethnic arts — as distinct from «high art» created through aristocratic patronage — the exhibition includes work from India's peasant villages, remote tribal settings and urban centers.