During the civil war, most small scale farmers have reverted to subsistence farming.

Moreover, the existing banks have failed to serve these parties small business and farming constituencies.

The capital held by rural women comes mostly from petty trade, small livestock and farming.

Extensive farming or extensive agriculture (as opposed to intensive farming) is an agricultural production system that uses small inputs of labor, fertilizers, and capital, relative to the land area being farmed.

In farming communities, each town had one or more small grain elevators that would serve the local growers.

Care farming is the therapeutic use of farming practices.

They turned off the tap to agriculture, leaving small farmers to rely on basic farming practices and on government and donor handouts.

One major reason why the majority of the hungry are among those who depend on small scale farming is that they are insufficiently organized.

Three quarters of the world s poorest people get their food and income from farming small plots of land, and most of these smallholder farmers are women.

Not Just Subsistence Farming

The time has come to reestablish public financing systems that enable small farmers in the poorest countries, notably those farming on two hectares or less, to gain access to needed inputs of high yield seeds, fertilizer, and small scale irrigation.

Studies revealed a large number of rural establishments using child labor 14 year old minors comprise 30 of the workforce on small livestock farming ventures in five Brazilian States.

Conventional credit institutions are not interested in farming and other types of women's income generating activities such as small scale livestock raising and the processing of agricultural products and harvests.

In October 2005, a United Nations task force identified as one of the root causes of the bird flu epidemic, farming methods which crowd huge numbers of animals into small spaces.

Closer to farming communities, roads disappear entirely.

Creating a sustainable agricultural farming systems network

In response to demand for vegetables in the tourism sector and the increasing number of retail outlets, an increasing number of small farmers have invested in drip irrigation technology for intensive farming.

The participants were trained in urban farming techniques.

Collective farming and communal farming are various types of agricultural production in which the holdings of several farmers are run as a joint enterprise.

Other experts agree. In October 2005, a United Nations task force identified as one of the root causes of the bird flu epidemic, farming methods which crowd huge numbers of animals into small spaces.

Traditional farming uses few inputs and gets poor yields.

Ethiopia is seeking to move to lower carbon farming.

The promotion of practical farming in the southern states.

The Arab population were occupied mainly in cereal farming.

They only come back home at the farming season.

Off season farming credit for market gardening and produce.

There is a lack of pro poor farming research.

Urban farming Urban farming is the process of growing and distributing food, as well as raising animals, in and around a city or in urban area.

Small farmers need options other than slash and burn farming to boost their meager incomes. There is a clear need for an integrated land management approach involving conservation, rehabilitation, investment in sustainable livelihoods, and institutional reforms.

Over a period of about 1,000 years, the Naqada culture developed from a few small farming communities into a powerful civilization whose leaders were in complete control of the people and resources of the Nile valley.

Fishing, breeding, farming are still the world's foremost human occupations.

It is time to replace GM technology with ecological farming.

As such, Rome's economy remained focused on farming and trade.

In Africa, progress is reported with improvements in farming techniques.

History Various situations and developments in the past have led people to discover the value of care farming and or contributed to how care farming is practiced today.

There's this large, consolidated farming that's led to what we eat in America, and it's really been since around 1980, after the oil crisis, when, you know, mass consolidation, mass exodus of small farmers in this country.

At the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), we believe that farming, regardless of size or scale, must be seen as a business, and smallholder farmers as small scale business owners rather than poor people who need handouts.

This relative progress calls for two qualifications. First, women still tend to own small farming units (up to 5 manzanas and 50 manzanas in 45 and 87 per cent of cases, respectively, according to the national agricultural census).

Only 16 States have passed pro hemp farming legislation so far.

Farming and fishing are important in combination with the food industry.

To facilitate food production, cities have established community based farming projects.

(c) Domestic economic considerations (leverage farming activities, increased domestic protein production)

In terms of household's main sources of income, 4 derived it from farming, 67 from wages and salaries, 8 cash remittances, 8 from business or non farming, and 10 from pension.

On top of this, farming is presented as analogous to the military.

Likewise, organic farming actually leaves a larger footprint than its conventional cousin.