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Put farm subsidies out to pasture
But two seemingly arcane aspects of farm policy undermine both claims. First, farm subsidy eligibility is restricted to growers of only a few crops. Second, once a farmer' ... But if subsidies were really designed to alleviate farmer poverty, then lawmakers could guarantee every full-time farmer an income of 185 percent of the federal poverty level ($38,203 for a family ...
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Significance of the IISD project
When the system of central purchasing of farmer's grain by Government was removed and local storage was improved, more grain became ... have demonstrated an important first step in an alternative approach to helping the transition to poverty elimination and the achievement of sustainable livelihoods. The concepts and methodology are not context ...
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Helena Norberg-Hodge - The Cost Of Development
"Oh, if you could help us Ladakhis, we're so poor." Compared to the poverty in the rest of India, nobody in Ladakh is poor. But now people are comparing ... "non-workers." That has all sorts of implications. When you demote the position of the farmer, you also demote the status of women. In the traditional economy, the center of decision ...
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soils resource paper
(Zimmerer, 1993). Studies ... to the adoption of soil-conserving techniques of management. Accordingly, Zimmerer (1993) specifies that farmer access to land, labor, and capital, constitute the main agrarian differentiation upon which the ...
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Only The Poets Can Save Us Now
Garden of Eden, ate the forbidden fruit, and experienced The Fall. Cain the struggling farmer killed his brother Abel, the singing nomad, and the rest, as they say, is ... People like you perhaps. The keys of transformation include unconditional love, the Golden Rule, voluntary poverty, wilderness quests, remembering ancient wisdom, questioning everything, and using the sacred power of your words ...
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CREA Saving Tropical Ecosystems
Such information, often very basic, is lacking in these communities where old, unsuitable ... Trees as cow feed, trees for better soil, the need for trees Farmer to Farmer Training An important part of farmer training is making the information disseminated to a few farmers benefecial ...
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Friends of the Earth: Press Releases: 1999
AGAIN ? Jun 8 — SAVE MONEY: STOP REPROCESSING Jun 7 — GM FARMER DESTROYS OWN CROP Jun 4 — AEROPLANES THREATEN THE WORLD'S ... POLLUTION HITS THE POOR HARDEST Apr 26 — BLAIR URGED: ACT NOW ON POVERTY AND POLLUTION. CALL FOLLOWS NEW RESEARCH ON POLLUTION/INEQUALITY LINK Apr ... TOLD: BOYCOTT IT TO SAVE CAMBODIA Mar 30 — UK'S BIGGEST FARMER PULLS PLUG ON GM TRIALS. FOE DEMANDS HALT TO "UNSCIENTIFIC" TESTS ...
foe.co.uk
EJF: Cotton and Poverty
Uzbek cotton farmers is grim. One cotton farmer described his situation as being "like hanging between life and death", explaining, "The government ... Clean Up Cotton Organic Cotton Meeting of Round-table on Sustainable Cotton Cotton in Uzbekistan Poverty in Uzbekistan Human Rights in Uzbekistan Child Labour in Uzbekistan The Aral Sea Crisis Trade ...
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Friends of the Earth: Gm crops increase pesticide use and fail to alleviate poverty
Home > Press releases > Gm crops increase pesticide use and fail to alleviate poverty Search | Sitemap | Contact Home ---------- Join ---------- Campaigns Press for change Press Releases Resources ---------- Local ... including the shooting of a peasant farmer in Brazil by militia linked with Syngenta In Paraguay, soya expansion is associated with increasing rural poverty. 90% of soya grown is ...
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UNEP/GRID-Arendal - Publications - Environment & Poverty Times #5 - Fishing for the future in Fiji
Forthcoming Series Rapid Response Assessments Vital Graphics The Environment Times The Environment Times Environment & Poverty Times #5 Table of contents | < Previous | Next > Africa's natural resources key to powering ... and manage young trees and bushes regenerating on their cultivated fields. This is natural farmer-managed forest regeneration. Some trees fix nitrogen from the air on their root ...
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