I've taught the kids of poor farm workers, but I've also taught the kids of doctors and lawyers.
In childhood he was told by his father, Manuel, the story of the 20-year-old, dirt-poor farm boy named George Washington Perry who caught a 22.3 pound bass in Georgia in 1932, establishing the current record.
At the same time, a socially desirable earlier change to the pension system has meant that millions of poor retired farm workers have begun to receive income-support payments, at a cost this year of about 10 billion reais.
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While rich countries would benefit most from getting rid of their crazy agricultural systems, the World Bank analysis suggests that 80% of the benefits reaped by poor countries from farm reform would come from reductions in the barriers between poor countries themselves.
He was born poor, on a farm, near the small coastal town of Minehead in the west of England in 1917.
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In farm trade, for instance, poor countries urgently need better access to rich-country markets for their farm products.
Less well known, however, is that poor countries themselves engage in farm protectionism.
Mr Mbeki also warned that G8 members must lift trade barriers on farm products from poor countries in order to lift millions out of poverty in the continent.
This lavish support distorts prices and blocks market access for poor countries that are natural exporters of farm products.
He argues that many poor countries possess an underlying comparative advantage in farm goods.
And by giving money to rich American farmers, the farm bill does little for the poor here.
The poor monsoon rains are also expected to reduce farm output this year.
The OECD said its analysis showed agricultural tariffs and price support mechanisms "do a poor job" of providing income support for farm families, encouraging sustainable economic development, maintaining healthy rural communities, or protecting the environment.
Poor countries need to sell their labour-intensive and farm products to rich ones.
The fact, for example, that some 70 percent of all farmers in the world are poor, working small holdings (a few acres per farm) additionally invites consideration of all those farmer dwellings.
Failure to liberalise farm trade would be a big blow to the poor world.
Mr. Li and other Chinese scholars and labor experts say workers from earlier generations, who hailed mainly from poor farms in China's hinterland, were accustomed to hard farm work and more single-mindedly focused on making money.
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It would cut farm subsidies, Medicare, student aid, housing subsidies for the poor, and funding for community development grants.
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Many poor people who live in or near forests may actually welcome the opportunity to farm on deforested land and bureaucrats in distant capitals may think that unsustainable and low-revenue-yielding forest operations are politically preferable to what they perceive as expensive alternatives.
In goods, freer farm trade could in theory yield the most for the world's poor.
In the millennium round, poor countries could benefit from America's determination to prise open Europe's cosseted farm sector.
Before I ever started writing a column, I taught for nearly five years in a poor farming town in central California where most of the students were the children of Mexican farm workers.
The farm said it was having to buy in the extra feed because of the the poor quality of last year's home-grown silage crop.
If poor countries are to accept any version of the Zoellick plan, they will press for much greater access for their farm products.
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