Even most of the field crops, such as barley, oats, and potatoes, are grown for animal feed.

The National Farmers' Union biofuel policy. The National Farmers' Union (NFU) of the United Kingdom

For farmers, it translates into suicide.

For farmers, this means deeper debt.

What's really important is that the ECX will operate a market information system to disseminate prices in real time to farmers around the country, using VSAT technology to bring an electronic price dissemination directly to farmers.

That is good news for farmers and consumers around the world.

(a) A viable alternative for farmers to producing food and to buying energy

This is powered by low cost VSAT technology, aggressively trying to reach farmers to bring them into the market.

For Irish farmers the campaign has delivered a golden opportunity to engage in a tactical assault on Brussels.

Poor rural frameworks hamper the knowledge dissemination needed for farmers to benefit from research developments.

For farmers, this means higher costs for seed corporations, higher profits.

The country has for some time accepted the existence of farmers' markets, which trade in limited garden produce.

And they had the farmers there is posters they put in the barn, and they have a DVD.

It will also make it possible to ensure that today s high prices for agricultural products are transformed into opportunity for poor farmers.

Finally, it is often claimed that GM crops simply mean costlier seeds and less money for farmers.

Cotton growing became so profitable for the planters that it greatly increased their demand for both land and slave labor.

We would also like to emphasize the importance of providing alternative livelihoods to farmers in order to reduce the incentive for the cultivation and production of opium.

Subsidizing their own farmers would divert money from education, health, and urgently needed development projects.

The expression Saami village has a colonial heritage stemming from laws for farmers and settlers that the Swedish government imposed on the nomadic Saami people.

These changes were keenly felt across the south east of England, where the London market created a wide range of opportunities for farmers and artisans.

She also took a paid position with the local Farm Loan Association, dispensing small loans to local farmers.

(c) The Canadian Federation of Agriculture is a farmer funded national umbrella organization representing provincial general farm organizations and national commodity groups.

He described this injury after observing spinal cord trauma which happened to farmers while cutting sugar cane in Mauritius.

Water comes from Kanpur City by Ganges Barge and there are various pumping stations for providing water to farmers for crops.

A wrong assessment by German authorities of the health risk posed by a particular vegetable leads to massive financial losses for farmers across Europe.

The former earn an annual salary (including fringe benefits!) totaling 2,000 the later may earn only half that.

But this requires generating eight million new jobs every year, including five million for farmers leaving the countryside.

Lower prices and free food save the lives of millions of starving people, despite the drop in food sales of the local farmers.

The key is for policymakers to remove barriers and provide incentives for farmers to adopt alternatives.

Farmers might be able to increase their output, but it won t be able to reach the cities, and the cities won t be able to provide the countryside with inputs.

The appropriate prices to be used for this purpose should be the local prices that would have been paid to the farmers if the lost crops had been produced.

Climate change therefore poses real challenges to farmers in terms of adapting farming methods to new weather conditions and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

A pest control technology that fails to control pests might be good for seed corporations that are also agrichemical corporations. For farmers, it translates into suicide.

They were creating subsidies either for large farms, or they were giving inputs to the farmers that they thought they should use, rather than that the farmers wanted to use.

The European Union also contributes to low cotton prices, paying farmers in Greece about 1 billion a year to grow the crop at a loss.

Today it is realized to get around this problem local cities and farms can work together to produce the needed compost for the farmers around them.

Without access to fertile land, uncontaminated water and a healthy biological ecosystem, farmers' livelihood is in danger.

Changing weather patterns and the increasing magnitude and frequency of extreme weather events will require substantial investments if farmers are to adapt successfully.

But it is also a struggle for survival between economic lifestyles peasants and nomads and the borderline between those two is not the same as that between Arabs and Africans.

For the US, the EU, and Japan, it means ending massive subsidies to farmers and curtailing other forms of protection provided to uncompetitive sectors.

The small piece of land allocated under the rural household contract system may not make farmers rich, but it serves as a social safety net of last resort.

From field studies to laboratory studies, we see that winning or losing an election, gaining or losing a romantic partner, getting or not getting a promotion, passing or not passing a college test, on and on, have far less impact, less intensity and much less duration than people expect them to have.

The Asian Development Bank and World Bank both indicated that governments should cut the electricity subsidies and charge farmers based on metered consumption of power.

The outrageous economic subsidies granted every year to farmers in industrialized countries are six times greater than the additional 50 billion needed annually to meet the Millennium Development Goals.

Individual farmers do not need any bureaucratic directive to decide whether to plant more potatoes an increase in prices creates an incentive to plant more potatoes a decrease in prices is a signal that they should plant less.