Sentences with phrase «sugar plantation land»

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Many ex-slaves settled as small farmers in the mountains or on marginal lands in the plains away from the plantations, and the economy slowly diversified from sugar to a broader range of exports including wood, coffee and bananas.

Additionally, the Casa de Campo Spa qualifies the resort for the Dominican Republic's Leading Spa Resort award with its premier services and signature treatments paying homage to the Dominican Republic's native lands and culture, ranging from utilizing tropical fruits as hydrating wonders to transforming sugar cane from local plantations into exclusory exfoliating treatments.

The journey leads to spectacular lookouts, waterfalls, lakes, national parks, rainforests, agricultural lands, sugar cane, tropical fruit plantations and charming small towns rich in arts and crafts, music and festivals.

State - sponsored land grabs and repression of activists have increased sharply in Cambodia in recent months, as the country's elite courts investor demand for plantations to grow rubber, sugar and other export crops.

Plantations in Brazil, the world's biggest producer of ethanol from sugar cane, haven't encroached on land used for food cultivation or on the Amazon rainforest, he asserted.

They were originally built in the 17th century by country folk who worked in the sugar plantations and didn't own the land on which their houses stood.