Louis to Saudi Arabia buy the seeds for small farms, home gardens, schools and public gardens.

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Over and over, chefs told us that ingredients from their local sources are farmed using organic methods, yet organic certification is cost-prohibitive for most of these small farms.

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In the land on the sides of these roads, local Mexican small-plot farmers and industrial farms produce coffee for major brands such as Nescafe and Starbucks.

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Most people in extreme poverty work on small, rain-fed farms, growing staple grains partly for their own consumption.

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For them, sustainability is the greatest virtue and is best achieved by encouraging small farms and organic practices.

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Petrela has farm agents scouring southern Manitoba- only 100 miles north of the US for farmers, often in their 70s, who want to sell their relatively small farms.

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The main reason for this discrepancy was that the UK had relatively few farms, so it got a small share of farm subsidies, which at the time made up 70% of budget expenditure.

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