However, in one case the judges ordered a subsidiary, Shell Nigeria, to compensate a farmer for breach of duty of care by making it too easy for saboteurs to open an oil well head that leaked on to his land.

NPR: Dutch Court Rejects Most Of Shell Spill Case

This NYSE effort to control the use of photos is a little reminiscent of the efforts by farmer organizations to get state legislatures to pass laws making it illegal to take pictures of farms without permission, largely aimed an animal rights activists who want to expose the conditions of pigs raised in cramped pens.

FORBES: NYSE Aims to Restrict Use of Exchange Floor Images

Breyer suggested the farmer had many options of what he could do with the soybeans, including making "turkey tofu" burgers.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

In northern Mozambique, cotton farmer Americo Candido Asan says U.S. subsidies drive prices ever lower, making it difficult for him to make a profit.

NPR: U.S., European Subsidies Undercut African Farmers

Yet a part of Newton was always rooted in rural Lincolnshire, watching nature and making his own tools to measure it, like any self-sufficient farmer's lad.

ECONOMIST: Isaac Newton

Leading actors are making the investments needed to forge value chains that, not only promote sustainable farmer livelihoods, but are resilient in the face of shocks from increasingly unpredictable weather, higher food costs, and wild swings in currency, energy and commodity prices.

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Employers are meant to verify the immigration status of their workers, so making the contractor go through the fiction of checking for fake Social Security numbers gets the farmer off the hook.

ECONOMIST: The miserable state of California's farm workers

Although he was pardoned by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for making a full disclosure, Nofemela had his death sentence converted to life imprisonment for murdering the farmer.

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