Guinea worm disease is usually non-fatal, but causes crippling pain and can immobilize its victims from being able to work, farm and function.
Farm work is being offered on prescription in a trial aimed at helping patients with their rehabilitation.
The council added that it was continuing to work with the farm to ensure the safety of visitors.
They are relying entirely on humanitarian assistance, even though there are some employment opportunities, such as farm work in Jordan, he said.
After finishing his government-imposed farm work, he managed to enter a local university in pursuit of an engineering degree at the ripe age of 30.
And in many countries women do most of the farm work.
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Young people living in rural areas require new coping mechanisms to deal with climate change and shrinking farm sizes, and to exploit opportunities for off-farm work.
They need training in business and marketing to find opportunities beyond farm work and reduce the obligation of migrating to cities in search of a job.
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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Even those who remained in the fields due to lack of language skills, little education or other barriers still benefited, because they were able to claim unemployment insurance and other benefits when farm work dried up for the season.
Molinka Kaseike(ph) used to work on a commercial farm about 30 miles outside of Harare.
They volunteered to work on a pig farm at a kibbutz called Dafna, in the Upper Galilee, near the Lebanese border.
G, about a man travelling to Oregon to work on an apple farm and Jerusha Hess's Austenland, about a woman obsessed with Pride and Prejudice.
The Wildlife Trusts, the national co-ordinating body for the 46 county trusts, has called for a four-tier scheme of support "which would pay farmers to help wildlife, with a scale of awards to reflect the amount of environmental work undertaken on each farm".
I'm going to go work in Africa on that farm that those people need help at.
It takes 60, 000 farm hands to work the four-week harvest in late summer.
At least 2m of Romania's 22m people work abroad, mostly in farm jobs.
To provide work for those leaving the farm, India needs to replicate in basic industry what it has achieved in software.
Someday, though, Goudey pictures a mobile fish farm that could work like this: Put hatchlings in cages into a Caribbean gyre near Barbados.
Thomas Karinos has found some work in a local eel farm, but the family, like so many, now rely in part on their small plot of land.
In the current issue of the McKinsey Quarterly, W. Brian Arthur, an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute, warns that technology is quickly taking over service jobs, following the waves of automation of farm and factory work.
That might come about as unemployment rises, especially if some migrants are better able than natives to keep jobs, for example in farm or care work, perhaps because of a willingness to work long hours for low pay.
Employers then are even more eager to slash costs and farm out the support work.
Olson says that Farm Rescue's work supports the spirit of the American farmer.
Now that he has been released, Omar says he is planning a quiet life, going to work on the family's farm.
Unpaid internships seem to be an example of mutual utility: inexperienced youngsters learn something about a chosen field while employers get to farm out some menial work.
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Off the coast of Oregon, Ocean Power Technologies has received approval to begin work on the first commercial wave farm in the US. The project is expected to produce enough clean energy to power more than 1, 000 homes.
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