Sentences with phrase «scale farmers around»

Since 1990, Organic Products Trading Company has been working directly with small - scale farmers around the world to source high quality green specialty coffee.

This follows the model of TransfairUSA (now rebranded as FairtradeUSA) in lowering standards so that plantations could get certified in a system meant for the 25 million small scale farmers around the world.

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Why it is actively working against the interests of small - scale pig farmers in its work around planning and regulation; and

Benefits for approximately 1.5 million small - scale farmers and workers around the world include: • A fair price on products • Improved access to low - or no - interest loans • Technical assistance for building infrastructure • Communications systems • Collectively - owned transport & processing equipment • Better health care & education • Training & skill diversification

Australian companies abroad are having severe negative impacts on the livelihoods and food sovereignty of small - scale farmers and fishers, and indigenous people around the world, especially in the Global South.

Topics up for discussion this year include issues around genetically modified (GM) technologies in agriculture, the impact of regulation and planning schemes on small - scale farmers, hunger activism and the «right to food», and food sovereignty at a global level.

More than 50 muralists, photographers and filmmakers from around the globe headed to one of the country's oldest farmer's markets to create dozens of new large scale works throughout the district and capture this historic event.

Together with partner organizations and the Peruvian government, we're tackling key drivers of deforestation in the Amazon — supply chains built around coffee, cocoa, and oil palm — by implementing a «Production - Protection Compact» that simultaneously protects forests and benefits small - scale farmers.

Among other initiatives that have been implemented so far, around 600 small - scale farmers have been given special training courses in sustainable farming methods.