We were farmers.

Originally they were farmers.

Their parents were farmers.

Some were farmers, some were hunters.

I even joined farmers representatives in a rally in front of Japan s Diet.

The system avoids granting full land ownership rights, fearing that it would lead to the manipulation of poor farmers.

Like millions of other African cotton farmers, Madi has advantages over cotton farmers in other parts of the world.

Talk to farmers. When was the last time you went to a farm and talked to a farmer?

The bean for which Proctor was granted a patent is a farmers variety, originally from Mexico and in the public domain for centuries.

She works with a handful of other female coffee farmers who live and work here with their children.

It features a wealth of data, as well as interviews with experts, citizens, and farmers affected by the catastrophe.

Our group had a chance to visit the Hacienda Luisita and talk to the farmers about their struggle for land reform.

I want you to think that every bite connects you to the past and the future to these anonymous farmers, that first bred the first wheat varieties and to the farmers of today, who've been making this. And you don't even know who they are.

The result has been increasing conflict between pastoralists and farmers, and the migration of populations from the north to the south.

What I found was, I started working with refugees and famine victims small farmers, all, or nearly all who had been dispossessed and displaced.

Getting seed and fertilizer to smallholder farmers at highly subsidized prices (or even free in some cases) will make a lasting difference. Not only will food yields rise in the short term, but farm households will use their higher incomes and better health to accumulate all sorts of assets cash balances, soil nutrients, farm animals, and their children s health and education.

Getting seed and fertilizer to smallholder farmers at highly subsidized prices (or even free in some cases) will make a lasting difference.

But, as one developing country minister put it, Our farmers can compete with America s farmers we just can t compete with America s Treasury.

This was found to cause the link between the use by farmers of pesticides such as DDT and dieldrin, and the decline of British populations of birds of prey.

Our story is from the wild north of Mozambique, a poor country in Africa of roughly 20 million people where 70 of the population are small scale farmers.

The bulk of the maize is grown by peasant farmers who are faced with regular droughts during the rainy season, an unreliable and expensive supply of fertilizer, and difficulties transporting the commodity to markets.

Clearly, entry to the Customs Union is a divisive topic, with farmers, alcohol producers, traders in Chinese goods and ordinary netizens all disagreeing over the right economic path to take.

The big winners from farm reform in the US, the EU, and other rich countries would be their taxpayers and consumers, who have long paid for the subsidies and protections received by their farming compatriots.

But its reaction to the book A Survey of Chinese Peasants, which is based on interviews over several years with farmers in the poor province of Anhui, was a telling reminder that public intellectuals are not welcome to contribute to that effort.

Since early August, farmers across Negros have staged protests in the province's capital, demanding the immediate release of disaster funds and other forms of assistance allotted by the national government.

First, it promises more effective risk management, because large banks are less exposed to a single sort of customer (in contrast to rural American banks, which suffered when American farmers suffered).

The island was settled by Portuguese people, especially farmers from the Minho region, meaning that Madeirans (), as they are called, are ethnically Portuguese, though they have developed their own distinct regional identity and cultural traits.

Recognizing that structural changes in international commodity markets, particularly the increasing concentration in trade and distribution, constitute new challenges for small farmers, commodity producers and exporters in developing countries,

Chad risks falling prey to the same cycle of violence.

The case soon turned into a cause celebre for the anti globalization movement. While the World Bank points to the rise in prices as evidence of the gains that accrued to farmers, its opponents point to the processing plants in urban areas which have been shutdown and the thousands of workers who remain unemployed.

While the World Bank points to the rise in prices as evidence of the gains that accrued to farmers, its opponents point to the processing plants in urban areas which have been shutdown and the thousands of workers who remain unemployed.