Sentences with phrase «while small farmers»

Filmmaker Marina Zenovich peels back the layers of California's convoluted water structure — wealthy water barons show their guilty hand in exploiting the state's resource, while small farmers and neighboring towns endure debilitating drought.

Not exact matches

Places like festivals, flea markets, and farmers markets make great places to publicize your small business while making some money.

But while tractors were now cheaper than ever, they could still be $ 600 or more — too much for many smaller - scale farmers — while most conversion kits were less than half that.

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.

So while the giants of the pork industry address the problem of dry, tough pork with enhanced products, small farmers do it by raising fatter hogs.

Some food industry giants promote genetically modified food as the solution while others say introducing small - scale farmers to new markets could do the trick to increase food production.

While claiming to promote food security and benefit small farmers, Grow's focus on a few high - value commodities — like potatoes, maize, coffee, tea and palm oil — exposes the programme's real objective: to expand the production of a handful of commodities to profit a handful of corporations.

And while Kraft deserves some credit, as none of the other Big Coffee companies is making this type of effort, real environmental preservation and fair prices for farmers is far, far better served by purchasing sustainable coffees from small companies and roasters with relationships with their suppliers, especially those that provide information on the specific farms where their beans are sourced.

I agree with this comment, as well as with the others on industrial agriculture, though I do want to mention that there are small town, local and organic farmers out there who treat animals and the environment well — while I do not support the dairy or egg industry, I love to see our friend Bob's hens running around wild, pecking at bugs, etc. and we will eat those eggs, which are seasonal because hens naturally lay more during certain times of the year.

The main difference between conventional and organic cotton production is that conventional cotton is produced with small amounts of mineral fertilizers and chemical pesticides while organic farmers rely on crop rotations and natural pest control.

Alter Eco invites consumers in the United States to celebrate the International Year of Quinoa and discover how eating Alter Eco quinoa will give a substantial nutritional boost to their diet, while directly benefitting the small - scale farmers who produce it.

While these are all important elements of our holistic approach toward trade, the small farmer piece is critical.

Several trade associations made repeated appearances: in the month we collected data, the Local Government Association and National Farmers Union each appeared at four sessions, while the Federation of Small Businesses appeared at three.

While allowing a break for farmers and small agricultural business owners across the country who have been hit with large fines from organizations like the EPA, the total removal of environmental regulation paves the way for businesses to pollute their property, surrounding land and water sources without consequence.

«As we take this seat back, it will be because the people in this district are tired of career politicians advancing their careers while they concentrate their power and make it more difficult for small businesses, farmers and veterans to have ordinary lives.»

So while conventional industrialized agriculture feeds the developed world, most of the world's farmers work small family farms.

While we all agree that factory farming needs a lot more regulation that it is currently receiving, imposing the same rules on small farmers practically insures that they will go broke and have to sell out to big agricultural companies.

While South America is its native home, farmers who grow edible species there currently make up only a small portion of the planet's total.

Henry (Jason Clarke) and Laura McAllan (Carey Mulligan) are farmers with grand ambitions whose faith is tested by circumstances beyond their control, while neighbours Hap and Florence Jackson (Rob Morgan, Mary J Blige) endeavour to build a small dream of their own — despite the harsh social prejudice they face.

While kids get fresher foods, independent farmers get large, stable contracts — no small benefit in a nation losing 2 acres of farmland to development every minute.

While the discounts of the produce will benefit consumers, Loblaw says the program will also help farmers have a market for the smaller, misshapen fruit they would otherwise throw away.

The only viable future for farming is very large or very small — large is simply never going to happen in Ireland, while small (organic / intensive / horticultural) is now only dawning on some farmers, years behind the likes of the Netherlands (or even rooftop farmers in Brooklyn?!).

Horticulturalists (small - scale, low - intensity farmers) had a median Gini of.27, while larger - scale agricultural societies had a median Gini of.35.

While the new data shows how fires present a major challenge to reaching this goal, Indonesia can still make progress if the government focuses on better land planning, improved law enforcement, and alternatives for small farmers to burning land.

While only a fraction of this cultivation currently occurs in the Amazon rainforest, production in neighboring areas like the cerrado grassland helps drive deforestation by displacing small farmers and cattle producers, who then clear rainforest land for subsistence agriculture and pasture.

I will continue to support legislation in the Senate that provides appropriate assistance to small family farmers while reducing the public cost and scope of expensive farm subsidies.

However, while many hail these restrictions (which, if enforced, should help boost the day - to - day living of fishermen like Adam), the consequences for small - scale farmers could be very different.

In January, the Nordic country contributed $ 100 million toward a new fund that endeavors to support small farmers boost agricultural output while avoiding further deforestation and degradation.

While the regulations apply to both domestic small farmers and factory farms, the USDA rules do not apply to imported almonds.

During the Great Leap Forward, multitudes of farmers were forced into cooperatives to grow designated grain crops while others were diverted to small - scale steel making, which helped contribute to the crops rotting uncollected in Chinese fields, leading in some part to famine.

The report predicts that world demand for crops — whether for food, livestock feed or biofuels — will double in the next 50 years, while natural resources necessary to agriculture are becoming scarce or degraded due to the impacts of global climate change.According to the report, areas of focus include sub-Saharan Africa, with the report indicating that farm subsidies for commodities such as cotton and oilseeds in wealthier countries need to be changed as they force prices down for small farmers in developing nations.

By giving small farmers, who are responsible for 80 % of worldwide food output, access to capital at attractive rates, Smartlands intends to measurably increase global food output while improving environmental results.

For instance, while it is easy to dine out (and thus, go broke) in the city, we have great groceries and farmers» markets close so our pantry can remain small.