Bob Zoellick, the head of the World Bank, argues that the best way to protect the poor without harming farmers is through conditional cash transfers.
African farmers without adequate road networks are condemned to grow not what they can eat, but what they can carry on their heads and eat quickly before pests destroy it.
Without it, farmers are obliged to sell part of their meagre crops of maize and beans, their diet has suffered, and they lack the savings or access to capital to bounce back after drought, argues Tania Bacelar, an economist at the Federal University of Pernambuco.
Somehow, returns to farmers must rise without inflicting untold misery on the poor.
But the aim here is specifically to reduce ET, at the same time increasing farmers' incomes without depleting the groundwater.
Officials say they're trying to decide how much of their surveillance data they can share, without violating the privacy of American farmers.
In most places there are no absolute shortages and the task is to lower domestic prices without doing too much harm to farmers.
Without a new green revolution, farmers will need 60% more water to feed the 2 billion extra people who will be born between now and 2025.
Without easy access to information, farmers cannot know what price is fair for their goods, traders have no alternative to buying imports from local sources, doctors rely on ancient technology, voters can make no informed choices.
Last year the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board, set up to fight the changes, won a suit alleging that the minister of agriculture had broken the law by stripping the board of its monopoly without first holding a plebiscite among farmers.
Without good supplies, he said, farmers had no other choice than to pay for expensive animal feed.
In Surrey, reports involve the illegal dealing of sheep across three county borders, while, in Cornwall, officials targeted dealers and farmers trading hundreds of cattle without keeping records including animal passports.
It is not too much to talk about a miracle, and one that has been achieved without the huge state subsidies that prop up farmers in Europe and America.
This tells farmers how much water they can consume without adversely affecting the ecosystems in their river basin.
There are farmers who say they could not survive without these government subsidies.
At the checkout line, people may have believed that they were paying more because farmers needed extra money to produce apples without pesticides.
But firms are finding ways to improve the lot of small farmers, and burnish their own reputations, without signing up to Fairtrade's rules.
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The agency also reported that crop insurance companies have agreed to allow for a "short grace period for farmers on insurance premiums in 2012, " giving farmers an extra 30 days to make payments without interest penalties on their unpaid premiums.
They say farmers and American food security can't exist without it.
Mr Sarkozy has turned from a stout defender of the euro into a shrill critic of the EU. A Europe that opens its markets without counterparties, and which does not defend its enterprises and farmers, is finished, he says.
This article reflects flaws seen in previous op-eds by Madoff. (1) It would treat the estates of farmers and small businesses differently than other estates, without explaining why concentrations of wealth are appropriate for some but not for all. (2) It does not (and her previous articles inadequately) address the problem of taxing some wealth twice. (3) It favors spenders and consumers over savers. (4) It advocates paternalism over autonomy.
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Most cocoa farmers have never tasted chocolate, and produce cocoa beans without any idea of how they will be used, says Timothy Childs, Tcho's founder.
The initiative would have permitted Mugabe, who has ruled this land since the minority white government was forced out two decades ago, to serve two more five-year terms as president, to enjoy--legally--more personal power and to seize--without compensating for them--tracts of land owned by white farmers.
The first of its kind map enables consumers to find retail locations, farmers markets, farms and restaurants selling meat from animals raised without antibiotics.
Even without new seed varieties or fancy drip-feed irrigation, investment should help farmers.
In Orkney, some organic farmers produce salmon at about half the density of conventional farms, without toxic chemicals or colourings.
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Food is bought every other day from the nearby farmers' market on Union Square, and put in the hamper without wrapping.
Farmers selected plants for seed because they looked and tasted good, without having any idea of what was really different about them.
Louis-based company claims under its intellectual property agreement with farmers that the seeds and their offspring cannot be saved and replanted without compensation.
The pinch will be on farmers like Johnny Howell who run water to plants around the clock, without much hope of turning a profit.
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