Most did not speak English. Most were poor farmers who had few special skills.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

There are some very poor areas in Africa where farmers really run the risk-- if their crop fails it could be really bad; they would be approaching starvation.

在非洲有一些非常贫困的地区,那里的农民真的面临着巨大的风险,一旦庄稼歉收 他们的处境将变得很糟糕,他们将经历饥荒

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Two-thirds of the white South remained in those classes we've come to call the yeoman farmers, the poor whites, or the sand hill farmers, as they were sometimes called.

三分之二的白人家庭属于这个阶级,我们称他们是约曼农民,贫穷的白人,或者没有地的农民

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There are striking images of poor farmers by photographers including Dorothea Lange.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

Livestock help improve human nutrition, provide income and serve as a safety net for many poor farmers.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

She says Africa has by and large resisted GM crops because it does not benefit poor farmers.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

She's been traveling across sub-Saharan Africa for the last eight months, and everywhere she goes, from remote villages in Uganda to poor farmers in Niger, nearly everyone has a mobile phone.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

Some of the farmers were victims of a terrible shortage of rain, and of their own poor farming methods.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

Poor soil keeps many farmers in Africa from growing good crops.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

KickStart sells its pumps to poor rural farmers, with the promise that they can make money with them.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

"The report reconfirms that we still need a strong regulatory system to ensure that the technology is not squandered away by poor management practices by both farmers and seed developers."

VOA: standard.2010.04.15