Most foreign investment in Africa still goes to oilfields or mines, rather than factories, services or farming.
On tiny plots, and often poor-quality soil, without modern equipment or farming methods, and sometimes beset by land disputes, many peasant farmers struggle to feed their family and grow just a little extra to sell in the village market.
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And that means no access to better-paying jobs or new farming methods -- in short, more poverty.
Buying foreign products may add to food miles but it can also cut down on the need for heated greenhouses or intensive farming.
The industry has no connection with local landscape or with farming.
The EU's main audit body says agricultural subsidies - the biggest item in the EU budget - often go to people who do little or no farming.
This might happen when a Shariah-compliant company in a Shariah-compliant mutual fund acquires a forbidden company, the main business of which is in a forbidden industry such as finance or hog farming.
' And we'll create new jobs, not just in farming or handicrafts but in e-commerce.
What if anything is morally wrong with, say, organ farming or surrogate pregnancy for money?
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The opposite of capitalism and free trade would be something like subsistence farming or perhaps a nomadic existence.
Indeed, one would think people working in Agriculture would tend to be experts in farming or crop management, not health sciences.
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Naturally, those Corsicans who had enjoyed disregarding their tax returns or fiddling their farming subsidies were rather cross about Mr Bonnet's attitude.
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In a few big countries, notably India and Egypt, malnutrition is much higher than either economic growth or improvements in farming would suggest it should be.
Another theory is that the birds may have fallen victim to hunting, development or changes in farming along their 6, 000km (3, 600 mile) migration route to breeding grounds in the Russian Arctic.
The name denotes the PLACE OF ORIGIN, which also carries with it certain understood qualities such as types of grape used in the region, or breeds and farming practices from the region.
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This is partly because farming or buying hops puts pressure on the bottom line, but also because many American drinkers weaned on soft drinks have never developed the Old World tooth for bitterness.
Instead, Goudey and a handful of other schemers hope to relocate fish farming, or aquaculture, from sensitive and expensive coastal areas to the open ocean.
Will the new department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs force unrealistic ideas on the farming community or will they use this crisis for good and help with the restructuring that this industry desperately needs all the way up the food chain?
Barely two hours drive outside the city, pot-holed dirt-roads are the only access to the numerous villages where the option for youngsters is to follow the family tradition of subsistence farming, or try their luck by heading illegally to the US - where more than a million Salvadorans already live.
Fishing allows us to eat, without the danger of hunting or the hard work of farming.
Embrapa had to create the land, in a sense, or make it fit for farming.
Their hope was to make more capital from the land by running shooting estates, or starting industrial-scale livestock farming.
Researchers addressing the British Association's science festival in Leicester last month said a new directive from Brussels could lead to radical changes in the way agricultural land was managed across Europe, with some types of farming being scaled back or even abandoned in some of their traditional areas.
Irrigated rice-farming, which is two or three times more productive than the rain-fed sort, is growing rapidly throughout the basin, albeit from a low base.
As a passive investor she would not be able to take net farming losses against income from dividends or salary.
They operate properties in places such as a farming valley in remote northern Iceland or a centuries-old Priory in Wiltshire, England.
Since the 1960s experts in child development have sought to eliminate orphanages altogether, farming kids out to foster care or small group homes.
Organic and responsible farming has been proven to match or excel the yields generated by GM crops on numerous occasions, while simultaneously rehabilitating and healing the soil.
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