As with peasant men, the life of peasant women was difficult.

A peasant in the Yangtze Valley in the late seventeenth century had a different style of life than his or her contemporary peasant in the Thames Valley, but not one that was clearly better or worse.

For the peasant, fruits are more important than flowers.

The European Union has launched a 1 billion effort to help peasant farmers.

First, special efforts should be made to boost peasant agriculture and rural communities.

Reports were also received of breaches of international humanitarian law attributed to peasant soldiers.

Thus, peasant lyrists such as Nikolay Klyuev often used Sirins as a synonym for poet.

There have been allegations by the civilian population of abuses by the so called peasant soldiers .

As a result, the peasant question is now threatening social stability and is potentially explosive in a way reminiscent of when Mao organized his revolution around peasant disaffection with the rural policies of the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai shek.

Yet little changes. As a result, the peasant question is now threatening social stability and is potentially explosive in a way reminiscent of when Mao organized his revolution around peasant disaffection with the rural policies of the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai shek.

The apathetic response of the dead peasant woman's husband to the 10,000 in compensation he received was telling.

A peasant rebellion, one of the few successful such in history, established the swineherd Ivaylo as a Tsar.

To be sure, Nkhoma s ideas about how to transform the lives of peasant farmers in Africa are not new.

Most were Dutch and Flemish artists who brought existing traditions of depicting peasant subjects from sixteenth century Netherlandish art with them to Italy, and generally created small cabinet paintings or etchings of the everyday life of the lower classes in Rome and its countryside.

Czarist rule withstood many harsh tests during its long history peasant revolts, conspiracies, and the alienation of the educated class.

How can we be expected to build the socialist economy, asked a Ukrainian peasant, when we are all doomed to hunger?

The Mexican Revolution of 1910 began with a challenge to the dictator Porfirio Díaz that ignited peasant uprisings and worker revolts.

Peasant farmers in Africa, Haiti, and other impoverished regions currently plant their crops without the benefit of high yield seed varieties and fertilizers.

Peasant farmers need the benefits of fertilizer, irrigation, and high yield seeds, all of which were a core part of China s economic takeoff.

According to government figures, the number of persons in the network of informants had increased considerably as did the number of peasant soldiers.

Chen, a blind peasant and self taught lawyer, had protested in 2005 against the kidnapping of some 3000 women in his hometown of Linyi.

Morales was born into a peasant household on the Andean altiplano and later established himself in Chapare at the beginning of the coca boom.

To help finance his communist movement in the 1930 s, Mao squeezed poor peasant families with any assets in the Red zone he controlled.

Subsistence peasant populations will almost always increase when possible since the peasants will try to spread the work to as many hands as possible.

Hu s government has also tightened controls over the media. Reports on peasant and worker demonstrations against corrupt officials and illegal property confiscations have been banned.

According to Diamonds and Clubs, a recent report from Partnership Africa Canada, soldiers have press ganged peasant farmers into working in mining syndicates at Marange.

After the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, cheap grain from the United States flooded Mexico, driving peasant farmers off of their land.

A number of factors, including famine, poverty, high taxes and corruption among the ruling class, led to several notable peasant revolts in the 19th century.

It needs investments to shift away from a dependence on a donor driven agenda and peasant driven agriculture, and learn to compete on a global level.

On the whole, the Protestants had a higher social status, and the Catholics were more likely to be peasant farmers or unskilled or semiskilled industrial workers.

A patch of potatoes grown by a Peruvian peasant or an Irish smallholder for personal use could be described as either a garden or a farm.

One cornerstone of the project was smallholder farmers, meaning peasant farm families in Africa, Latin America, and Asia working farms of around one hectare (2.5 acres) or less.

After a confrontation between the two, the wealthy wife drove her BMW into the growing crowd of spectators on the roadside, killing the peasant woman and injuring 12 others.

Party leaders may not become sufficiently attuned to the needs of China s people to respond to problems like corruption, environmental degradation, or peasant unrest before crises make them unsolvable.

Peasant farmers, parliamentarians, civil society groups, and institutional actors have come together in similar ways elsewhere including in Brazil, South Africa, and Mexico to demand legal protections against hunger.

Selling five rupee sachets of shampoo to poor consumers is considered clever marketing, but lending 5,000 rupees to a starving peasant at high interest rates is viewed as exploitative.

Boris Yeltsin s accession to power in independent Russia saw only a partial reversal, with his peasant gowned wife, Naina, making public appearances at his side every now and then.

Today, he is one of the principal leaders of the peasant movement in Niassa province, working to defend land rights, increase food production and bring prosperity to farming families.

Led by peasant born Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge evacuates people to the countryside in order to create a rural communist utopia, much like Mao Tse tung's Cultural Revolution in China.

The World Food Program can help peasant farmers to produce more food in the countryside and then purchase the food to use in food for work programs oriented to construction projects.

Alternative biology is the study of theoretical or non traditional life forms such as acellular life, non carbon based life, extraterrestrial life, cyborg life, or artificial life.

A peasant, who was walking to market that morning, ran towards where the gunshot had come from, and found a young man writhing in agony on the floor, clearly shot by a dueling wound.

The bulk of the maize is grown by peasant farmers who are faced with regular droughts during the rainy season, an unreliable and expensive supply of fertilizer, and difficulties transporting the commodity to markets.

A life for a life.

Just as Southeast Asia s peasant rebellions of the 1930 s were a reaction to the breakdown of an earlier episode of globalization, so Islamism in Asia is a response to our new secularist consumerist societies.