Sentences with phrase «rural farm families»

With funding from UNDP Regional Office, ECOTRUST has established a carbon bank modelled as a revolving fund to reduce unsustainable exploitation of forest resources and the decline of ecosystem quality, while diversifying and increasing incomes for rural farm families.

Not exact matches

The festival in turn funds the Red Ants Pants Foundation, which gives grants to develop leadership roles for women and to support rural communities and working family farms and ranches.

Family farms, restaurants, other food businesses and the rural economy will suffer under federal tax proposals for small businesses,

but it does happens mostly in rural area areas or at very poor communities where girls have no education but just work at their homes or farm fields or when families are poor and needed the marriage money to support the rest of kids they have..

In the United States, the thousands of deserted rural towns resulting from the replacement of family farming by agribusiness are one witness to this destruction.

Tales of family farms and businesses broken up to pay the estate tax are basically rural legends; hardly any real examples have been found, despite diligent searching.

Ministers cast about for responses to displaced farm families, to the deepening misery of the rural and urban poor, to the epidemic use of drugs in every strata of society, to half a million homeless children; they seek techniques for church growth, approaches to spiritual nurture and meaningful worship.

I'm guessing L4H is someone living back on the farm and has never left his rural community, the only life he knows is that of his family and close church friends.

I recall some twenty - three years ago when, as a young seminarian serving a congregation of tenant farm families in rural Virginia, one of my duties was to teach a class for high school students each Sunday morning.

Organic Valley indicates that «the central mission of our cooperative is to support rural communities by protecting the health of the family farm — working toward both economic and environmental sustainability.»

The company's commitment to quality traces back to her family's restaurant at the Tabard Inn, one of the oldest hotels in Washington, D.C.. For years, the Cohen family has operated a farm in rural Virginia where it grew fresh produce for the restaurant.

«This year's World Food Day theme is about family farming, and their significant role in achieving food security, sustainable livelihoods and rural development,» said Cris Panerio, regional coordinator for MASIPAG - Luzon.

Bringing together all the key players in Canada's organic industry to ensure excellent standards and regulations that stimulate the growth of Canada's organic sector, which is good for the environment, the consumer, family farms and rural communities.

Our organic heirloom potatoes come from small - scale family farms in rural southwestern Wisconsin.

Most organic farms are family owned and rely on more rural labour for managing pests, diseases and weeds.

«When consumers enjoy our ice creams, they are also helping to sustain family farming, revitalize rural communities, and support a thriving regional food system.»

Straus Family Creamery continues to make business decisions based on its mission to help sustain family farms, revitalize rural communities, and protect the enviroFamily Creamery continues to make business decisions based on its mission to help sustain family farms, revitalize rural communities, and protect the envirofamily farms, revitalize rural communities, and protect the environment.

«What I've tried to do is create a sustainable organic farming model that is good for the earth, the soil, the animals, and the people working on these farms, and helps revitalize rural communities,» said Albert Straus, CEO and founder of Straus Family Creamery.

«More importantly, I am pleased that it shines a spotlight on the important work of leveraging organic family farming to revitalize rural communities everywhere.

Straus Family Creamery, the first 100 percent certified organic creamery in the United States, continues to make business decisions based on its mission to help sustain family farms, revitalize rural communities, and protect the enviroFamily Creamery, the first 100 percent certified organic creamery in the United States, continues to make business decisions based on its mission to help sustain family farms, revitalize rural communities, and protect the envirofamily farms, revitalize rural communities, and protect the environment.

A: Our mission is to help sustain family farms in Marin and Sonoma Counties by providing high quality, minimally processed organic dairy products, and to support family farming and revitalize rural communities everywhere through advocacy and education.

Straus Family Creamery continues to make business decisions based on its mission to help sustain family farms and revitalize rural communFamily Creamery continues to make business decisions based on its mission to help sustain family farms and revitalize rural communfamily farms and revitalize rural communities.

He envisioned a system that would help family farms thrive and support a revitalization of the surrounding rural communities.

Coconuts are used fresh (within 24 - 48 hours of harvest) from small family farms on Mt. Banahaw and other rural places in Quezon Province, the coconut capital of the Philippines.

The Farmhouse Suite at Vermont Grand View Farm lures families away from their hectic lives, inviting them to slow down and experience the peacefulness of rural farm lFarm lures families away from their hectic lives, inviting them to slow down and experience the peacefulness of rural farm lfarm life.

It's also worth pointing out a deeper selfishness involved involved in the equation: Democratic states functionally subsidize Republican states, and as I found in my distant days in the Texas Legislature, (relatively) pro-tax urban areas typically subsidize low - tax rural counties (think of Michelle Bachmann's family farm subsidy payments as an example).

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

So my question is, after decades of rural out migration and farm consolidation, what can we do, what can you do, to provide opportunities and invest in a new generation of family farms for the country?»

The solar panels on his home in rural Kentucky generate all the electricity his family needs to live on and work a 1200 - acre cattle farm.

Actions that bring urban families and rural farm communities closer together, from expanding farmers» markets and farm - restaurant connections to community supported agriculture;

So, I ordered some from my very favorite source, Tropical Traditions, because I know they only have the highest quality organic produce that comes from small family farms in rural southwestern Wisconsin.

Coconuts are used fresh (within 24 hours of harvest) from small family farms on Mt. Banahaw and other rural places in Quezon Province, the coconut capital of the Philippines.

Set in a rural village in the Limousin countryside of France during World War I, between 1915 and 1920, the film follows the women of the Sandrail family as they tend to the family farm while the men of the family fight.

A revelatory, muscular debut from first - time British director Francis Lee, God's Own Country took us into a tough, Lawrentian rural world, where the last thing we expected would be a burgeoning romance between moody, «mardy arse» Johnny Saxby (Josh O'Connor) and removed Romanian worker Gheorghe (Alec Secareanu), who comes to help out on Johnny's almost scratch - subsistence family farm.

Based on the novel of the same name by Hillary Jordan, Mudbound is set in rural Mississippi on a farm where two very different families are struggling to survive.

Then there are Andrew Garfield (Breathe) as advocate Robin Cavendish, one of the longest - living polio survivors in Britain; Benedict Cumberbatch (The Current War) as electricity titan Thomas Edison; Jason Clarke (Mudbound) as Henry McAllan, a city worker who relocates his family to a rural farm post-World War II; Hugh Jackman (The Greatest Showman) as P.T. Barnum; and, less likely, James Franco (The Disaster Artist), completely losing himself in a Method turn as failed filmmaker - turned - cult icon Tommy Wiseau.

Runoff (R for drug use) Rural tale of survival about a desperate woman (Joanne Kelly) who will to stop at nothing to keep a failing, family farm threatened with foreclosure afloat after her husband (Neal Huff) falls ill.

One family — a father (Krasinski), mother (Blunt, who's married to Krasinski off - screen) and their children; I don't think we ever heard anyone's name — remains, and we quickly learn that the family's survival is due to their ability to live on their rural farm in silence.

Sheila Roberts: Filmmaker Dee Rees assembles a powerful ensemble cast in «Mudbound» to bring to life Hillary Jordan's international bestseller about two families living in rural Mississippi following WWII who face the harsh realities of farming and the brutal social barriers of the Jim Crow South.

The film illustrates the lives of white and black families in rural Mississippi as they confront the brutal realities of prejudice, farming, and friendship in a divided post World War II era.

Amidst this alien threat, Evelyn (Emily Blunt) and Lee (John Krasinski, who also directed and co-wrote the script, along with Bryan Woods and Scott Beck) attempt to raise their three children on their family farm in rural New York.

The model was developed for rural schools because Colbert and her cofounders recognized that children in these communities have unique circumstances surrounding their schooling, such as the need to leave school during harvest season to work the family farm or single - classroom schools that serve many grade levels at once.

About the Author Born and raised in rural Idaho, Larry's childhood on the family farm was rich in work, as well as opportunities to explore the natural world.

She grew up in the rural Midwest and witnessed the demise of the family farm through the aggressive practices of agribusiness.

We needed to know more about Footer and her family, so we contacted the author, who lives on a farm in rural Kentucky.

Its pace is moderate, its tone restrained, but its elegiac mood, so wonderfully evoked by John Lee's darkly lyrical reading, draws you into the life of Jack Luxton, the last of a dairy - farming family in rural England.

After spending time in a juvenile facility, he's placed with a foster family on a farm in rural Maine.

He grew up spending his time in the rural parts of Romania, surrounded by hundreds of animals (cows, horses, pigs, sheep, dogs and even cats) on his family's farm.

Growing up on her family's farm in rural New Jersey, Jenny developed an early and profound connection to animals.

Organized veterinary medicine, that reaped great profits for the drug companies selling antibiotics, vaccines and a host of other drugs, never voiced concern over the proliferation of cruel factory farms, so - called concentrated animal feeding operations that now blight rural America, helped put family farms out of business and now pose significant environmental and public health risks.