It can ensure that poor,rural people, whose lives and livelihoods, depend on the earth's productive capacity, have the means to produce more and to produce it better, GDP growth generated by agriculture has been shown to be at least twice as effective in reducing poverty as growth in other sectors. In recent years, more attention is being paid to the importance of smallholder farms.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself are silent.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

Jacob Riis's concern for the poor kept him so busy writing and speaking around the country that he ruined his health.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

"The Affluent Society." He argued that while private individuals in America were becoming wealthier, public institutions were growing poor.

VOA: special.2011.05.01

The second group did not. But some medical researchers refused to accept that a poor diet caused pellagra.

VOA: special.2010.05.18

One idea is to provide poor and developing nations with vaccines that help to prevent some cancer-causing infections.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The popular story is that rich families in Denver society did not accept them because they had been poor and lacked education.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

"We know there are fish farming operations in China,in Asia, that are very interested in this, that have a poor record regarding regulation.

VOA: special.2010.10.05

He criticized the American culture that he said was rich in goods but poor in social services.

VOA: special.2011.05.01

Environmental activists said the accord is a declaration that small and poor countries are not important.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

One sign is that the Standard & Poor's list of five hundred stocks has risen more than twenty-five percent in the past five weeks.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

Like most people at that time in the southern United States, the Williams family was poor.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

She has said that her family was very poor and that she had cockroaches for pets.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

"The biggest challenge of getting life saving vaccines to poor countries is that there's no market.

VOA: special.2010.03.29