They teach the need for farming to improve the environment and make good use of natural resources.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

Mr.Stevens says a one hundred percent increase in fish farming over ten years is necessary to keep providing for people at the current level.

VOA: special.2011.02.08

John's friend, the Indian Seth White Feather offered John a way to make money during the winter when it was too cold for farming.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

Corn harvests remain small. The researchers say farming methods in Sub-Saharan Africa need to improve or else poor quality soil will increase rural poverty.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

They did not expect an easy life. And as time passed, they found solutions to most of the problems of farming on the Great Plains.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

It said a black person needed special permission to work at any job except farming.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

Borlaug and those who followed his lead argued that older methods of sustainable farming could not produce enough food to prevent hunger in poorer areas of the world.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

He not only showed humanity how to get more food from the Earth, he proved that farming has the power to lift up the lives of the poor."

VOA: special.2009.11.10

You know that farming is a private sector activity. Investors have the right to go and negotiate with farmers."

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

She says for developing countries to improve their crop output, investment needs to be made in promoting traditional farming techniques.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

The song says we do not want bombs or war, we want irrigation for farming and seeds to plant in the earth.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

"And I have witnessed it across a lot of schools, back to earth movement of organic farming."

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

Elsewhere, farmers have not fared as well. In Niger,the city of Agadez lost close to 400 hectares of land used for farming and cattle.

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

Africa,with already severe weather conditions and a poor population largely dependent on subsistence farming, is considered to be the continent most threatened by climate change.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

VOA's Bart Childs is in Port-au-Prince: "There is a thought that if people return to a simpler life, a farming life,a village life, life will be better for them,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

He says farming methods in the village have to change.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Parents here rely on peanut and rice farming to survive.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

Some farmers who are not in the program have begun adopting organic farming techniques in hopes of joining small organic cooperatives that are beginning to negotiate long-term contracts with European organic and fair-trade wholesalers.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

That is in addition to billions of dollars of aid to the Middle East and North Africa, including a $700-million Millennium Challenge Corporation grant to Morocco for fruit tree farming and small-scale fisheries as well as stronger financial services and enterprise support.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

"The prediction is that in the next 20 years to 30 years, if the situation continues to get worse, the productivity from the agricultural sector and from subsistence farming in Africa, the production would reduce by as much as 50 percent,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

His advocacy of intensive, high-yield agriculture came under criticism from environmentalists in recent years, but Borlaug and those who followed his lead argued that older methods of sustainable farming could not produce enough food to prevent hunger in poorer regions of the world.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13