After a successful trial with 200 farmers last year, Kilimo Salama has just been expanded in the hope of attracting 5, 000 farmers in western and central Kenya this year.
To be sure, the dam has helped Egyptian farmers irrigate year-round and has prevented periodic flooding, but it has also deprived the Nile delta of nutrient-rich silt, which instead just piles up behind the dam.
India's government usually increases assured prices paid to farmers each year for key staples such as wheat, rice and lentils, aiming to support their incomes and ensure that they don't switch to other less important crops.
This is because the strain on subsidies is bound to increase as the government usually raises the state-assured prices paid to farmers every year for procuring food grain stocks, while the supply price would remain frozen under the proposed law, he added.
This year farmers south of the delta will receive only 20% of their contracted allocations.
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The clinic also opened a local farmers market last year on its premises.
First and foremost, this year farmers are expected to generate net income at their highest level in 37 years.
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Since GMO companies push farmers to purchase new GM products every year, "This traps farmers into using expensive seeds and pesticides from a single company, " says Ma.
Land previously redistributed by the government was given to peasant farmers under five-year permits.
The current rice crop (farmers grow two a year) is half what it should be.
Farmers in Goa last year found they spent 70 percent less on seed with SRI to grow up to twice as much rice.
Earlier this year, farmers in north-east Wales said they were being forced to carry out patrols looking for the remains of the lanterns in fields.
Rather than rotating corn planting with soybeans to replace soil nitrogen, many farmers are planting corn year after year and adding large amounts of nitrogen fertilizer.
Desert areas are expanding by 3, 000 square miles each year and farmers are being paid to plant trees to halt this advance, thus further reducing the grain-growing area.
Mohammed Lamine, who works for Oxfam in Dakar, says the billions of dollars in subsidies paid each year to farmers in the United States and Europe are undercutting African farmers.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA), has announced that US sugar supplies could run short this year as farmers could lose 21% of the 2011 crop if they are not able to start sowing in the spring.
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Farmers are given 30-year leases (though often no supporting documents) to use plots of land.
Earlier this year Lula said farmers could sell, just this once, the soya they had harvested.
Towards the end of last year, the farmers received the first instalment of the money they were owed.
Brazilian farmers still seethe over last year's rejection by China of soya shipments costing hundreds of millions of dollars.
Not all will get it: the new pay-out is expected to go only to farmers with a three-year record of earnings.
Ask Bunge what happens to soy futures when China decides it needs a few million tons less soybeans this year from Midwestern farmers.
Agriculture Minister Michelle O'Neill said 2012 had been an "exceptionally difficult year" for farmers and the horsemeat controversy was "therefore a very unwelcome development".
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Valleys, which were moonscapes, now verdant and lush and giving life and jobs and eighteen thousand Birr a year to the farmers of that neighbourhood.
When coffee prices dip low, as they have this year, some farmers flirt with growing coca plants instead of coffee, especially in the Andean countries of South America.
Near the beginning of the lunar year, silkworm farmers invite artisans into their homes to perform the story of the Goddess of the Silkworm, to ward off evil and ensure a bountiful harvest.
We arrived at another of the camps - no more than a few old sacks and tarpaulins spread out along the road opposite the mine entrance - and were immediately surrounded by farmers, who until a year ago, they said, would never have dared to speak to a foreigner about their problems.
"The farm liaison officers can help farmers and nature recover after last year's flooding, " Mr Diamond said.
Since the new year, drivers, farmers and businesses have been searching high and low for petrol and diesel.
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