Synopsis:
2.0.. agro: Small farm:
BBC 00897.txt
Given the number of small farmers in the world, he sees potential for the system far beyond just East Africa.
BBC 00923.txt
I've always had an interest in doing something for small farmers, Kisaalita tells me. They are my aunts and uncles, my brothers and sisters.
A small farmer with five cows produces a lot of dung, says Kisaalita. You can ferment the dung,
the small farmer could milk her cows in the evening, chill it, and then add more milk in the morning.
BBC 01170.txt
"We still have to develop the concept to apply it to small farmers and to low tech or low income areas,
impactlab_2010 01136.txt
and raised on a small farm is a lower risk. Eggs, lettuce, peanuts, spinach. It seems as if every time we turn around there is another outbreak of a scary foodborne illness.
and raised on a small farm is a lower risk. Even so, remember that you need to handle anything organic meat, poultry,
impactlab_2010 01807.txt
Along with mid-size and small farms the number of federally inspected slaughterhouses has been dropping, from 1, 627 in 1980 to 1, 051 in 2010, according to the USDA.
a lack of slaughterhouses that can work with small farmers. Most big slaughterhouses require farmers to book appointments far in advance, sometimes as long as 18 months.
Thats difficult for a small farmer raising animals in pastures, where weather and other variables can affect their growth and readiness for slaughter.
Along with mid-size and small farms, the number of federally inspected slaughterhouses has been dropping, from 1, 627 in 1980 to 1, 051 in 2010, according to the USDA.
a lack of slaughterhouses that can work with small farmers. Most big slaughterhouses require farmers to book appointments far in advance, sometimes as long as 18 months.
Thats difficult for a small farmer raising animals in pastures, where weather and other variables can affect their growth and readiness for slaughter.
impactlab_2011 00277.txt
She suggested that there may be rare exceptions among small farms raising older breeds of turkeys, called heritage breeds,
impactlab_2011 01877.txt
Small farm back yard and indoor vegetation has become a new experience. The health benefits go beyond just small amounts of food, to improving air quality, the natural environment and providing healthy exercise.
impactlab_2011 02739.txt
smaller backyard#farmers would need to wait until scientists create birds that can be bred on small farms.
That would be a means of ensuring that the birds these small farmers bred themselves still carried the protective transgene,
impactlab_2011 02785.txt
According to an article in the Chicago tribune, The city hosts hundreds of community gardens and about a dozen small farms
impactlab_2012 00021.txt
A test of oregano oil on four small farms in Maine, which was financed by a $9, 914 grant from the Agriculture department,
impactlab_2012 00411.txt
small farms, maintaining our local dairy industry, which is still fairly large, #Weidemann said. They want that pastoral setting as they drive down a country road
impactlab_2013 00259.txt
What about the hundreds of thousands of small farmers who produce these crops now? Artemisinin is farmed by an estimated 100,000 people in Kenya, Tanzania, Vietnam and China and the vanilla plant by 200,000 in Madagascar, Mexico and beyond.
impactlab_2013 00857.txt
And second, it ignores the fact that much of the available farmland in Africa still consists of small farms that are owned by the families who farm them.
a small farmer in Malawi who often turns down work on a nearby tobacco plantation in favor of his own plot.
Multinational food broker VP Group regularly buys from about 5000 small farms near Nairobi. Thanks to text messages and the mobile Internet, it can now collect produce from the field,
In the mid-2000s, Uganda s largest cooking oil company, the Mukwano Group, rapidly enlisted 100 000 small farmers to grow sunflower seeds by using text messaging
Livescience_2013 01585.txt
About half of Costa rica's coffee is produced by small farmers many of whom run small shade-grown coffee operations.
and buses and promoting the use of biodigesters on thousands of small farms to generate energy from agricultural waste.
Livescience_2013 02943.txt
tactics to harass small farmers into using and paying huge sums for Monsanto GM seeds putting some out of business according to a CBS News report and other sources.
Livescience_2013 07372.txt
While small farms managed to keep going by using private water supplies some of the alfalfa farmers have been hard-hit Greenberg said.
Livescience_2014 03037.txt
and anti-poverty effort that has reached 7 million small farmers and 12.5 million children according to the USAID statement.
Nature 01272.txt
count on and help small farms. The international focus has long been on large-scale industrial farming, so this changes quite a few things.
Nature 02020.txt
however, there are lots of small farms, few health regulations and long-held cultural practices involving birds. In the developing world, we cannot follow the slaughter strategy used in the developed world,
Nature 02763.txt
It is an extremely important crop for our small farmers, says Francisco Arag £o, a plant geneticist who led the work for the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA),
Nature 02935.txt
Those small farms account for 90%of properties in Brazil, although less than half of the surface area, according to Claudio Maretti, head of international conservation group WWF s Living Amazon Initiative.
popsci_2013 01037.txt
We are amazed always that the PR companies hired by these big food corporations never understood that. http://www. rainydaymagazine. com We Entertain When It Rainsgm rice puts small farmers out of business due to the high cost of seed.
popsci_2013 01048.txt
namely the bullying of small farmers by large agro companies like monsanto. The cross-pollination bit is the perhaps the most disturbing thing but
popsci_2013 01554.txt
Small farms could depend entirely on native bees though larger farms required honeybees. The natives may be especially effective at pollinating foods native to The americas including cherries and cranberries.
Popsci_2014 00293.txt
But I live on a small farm in the middle of the woods in Surry County Virginia and I d rather have the allergy than leave that
ScienceDaily_2013 06965.txt
or other areas where the use of production contracts are much more rare especially in the small farm context?
ScienceDaily_2013 08172.txt
and reliability were also big factors for small farmers in choosing a system for drip irrigation--an efficient means of delivering small amounts of water directly to the base of each plant.
ScienceDaily_2013 13922.txt
These groups empower small farmers to enforce their own methods of fairer and less wasteful water distribution.
ScienceDaily_2014 07033.txt
Some small farmers may be exempt from the new Produce Safety Rule requirements. The largest produce growers which in the State of Florida account for 80 percent of produce production are gleaming castles of stainless steel
ScienceDaily_2014 12556.txt
While they are a major economic driver for the U s. economy the legume is also crucial to the diets and livelihoods of millions of small farmers in Asia and Africa many of
ScienceDaily_2014 15647.txt
Small farmers by contrast in many places continue to grow a range of species and multiple varieties that form the basis of their diet and nutrition.
An assessment of 286 projects in 57 countries moreover shows that low-cost sustainable and diversity-enhancing technologies increased average crop yields on small farms by 79 percent since the early 1990s.
Smart_Planet_1 00997.txt
Designed for small farmers who, because of Argentina's regular economic collapses, are not eager or able to make large investments,
Thus, the Trakã Â r could make farm automation possible not only for small farmers in Argentina
Smart_Planet_12 00408.txt
while at the same time making sure our programs encourage the establishment of small farms so food can be readily available to places that have been food deserts.
Smart_Planet_13 00217.txt
whether that's a small farm in Burma or a major bank in Europe, designers won't come up with creative solutions that stick.
Smart_Planet_2 00339.txt
which small farmers are little more than an impediment. It turns out that if you're keen to make the world's poorest people better off,
Smart_Planet_5 00932.txt
I was working on soil science issues with small farmers there. I have this dual background that's ideal for biochar
Smart_Planet_9 00070.txt
Thirty years after starting a business selling products that helped small farmers in developing countries grow their crop yield,
That company has helped 20 million $1 a day small farmers move out of poverty. They did it by designing radically affordable irrigation equipment in the beginning.
I started by interviewing at great depth $1 a day small farmers. I've done interviews with 3, 000 families over 25 years.
WS_1452 00169.txt
right now in the Triangle area of North carolina there is a surge of new sustainable small farms.
WS_1452 00240.txt
and several million small farmers depend on it for their livelihoods. Scientists say it might be possible to as much as quintuple the output of beans per acre in Africa through breeding that relies on genetic information.
WS_1452 01346.txt
This policy gave Unilever the highest score on openness to small farmers, with a rating of oefair.
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