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At the same time, rising energy prices create a strong incentive for farmers to switch from food production to fuel production.
Those systems essentially delegated more decision-making rights, as well as certain profits, to farmers and workers, so that they had a stronger incentive to work more efficiently within state-owned communes and firms.
One of the lingering issues of the rural household responsibility system, for example, was unclear property rights relating to farm land, which is still legally owned collectively by local farmers, even though land-use rights were contracted to the individual households for 30 years.
Without privatization, the farmers could not sell their land at market value for urban development, creating space for abuse and corruption, as well as social instability, particularly because urban and rural land values widened substantially during China’s high-growth period.
Unlike farmers, who did not borrow at all, SOEs borrowed heavily from state-owned banks.
But destroying poppy crops has been turning Afghan farmers against NATO.
So it is smarter to go after the heroin bosses and their foreign networks, and in the meantime buy the poppy crop from farmers to destroy it.
And one should not forget Andrew William Mellon’s infamous and reckless advice to former US President Herbert Hoover on the eve of the Great Depression: “liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate.”
The Bank similarly missed crucial opportunities to support smallholder subsistence farmers and to promote integrated rural development more generally in impoverished rural communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
For around 20 years, roughly from 1985 to 2005, the Bank resisted the well-proven use of targeted support for small landholders to enable impoverished subsistence farmers to improve yields and break out of poverty.
Under the new program, farmers and ranchers are paid $120 per hectare to reforest or terrace their fields.
Much of the new battle over lifestyles is undoubtedly misunderstood, perhaps because debates about them are conducted in a simplistic way: anti-global movements versus multi-nationals, environmentalists versus corporate polluters, small farmers versus agro-business, and so on.
Additional food must be produced using technologies that do not damage the natural resources that future generations will need in order to feed themselves; that do not fuel climate change, which weighs heavily on farmers; and that do not accelerate the disintegration of the delicate fabric of rural society.
With the right policies in place, the incremental food demand created by these transfers, as well as by school meals programs and nutrition supplements for mothers and infants, could create opportunities for small-scale farmers to expand their output and improve their livelihoods.
The UN appeal for South Sudan, which faces famine after fighting prevented farmers from planting crops, has reached only half of its funding target.
Some have traced the roots of the civil war in Syria to droughts that led to severe crop failure and forced a mass inflow of farmers to the cities.
The main risk to the US economy comes not from Chinese retaliation against farmers or US multinationals, which may or may not happen, but from the Keynesian tariff effect.
Throughout the developing world, farmers are expanding areas of cultivation in an endless quest for fertile soil.
As soil health declines and output drops, many farmers see no option but to look for new land to cultivate.
Over the last 25 years, farmers in more than 20 countries around the world improved food security while maintaining or increasing forest cover.
According to one study, between 1965 and 2004, farmers in developing countries who planted high-quality seeds were able to reduce farmland by almost 30 million hectares – an area roughly the size of Italy.
These gains could be extended further if smallholder farmers had access to modern equipment, better data collection and analysis, and more financing.
Critics argue that increasing the productivity of smallholder farms could backfire, especially if it encouraged poor farmers to expand their acreage in the hope of increasing profits.
At the same time, however, farmers in developing countries cannot simply be asked to stop using non-farm resources adjacent to their fields.
The original rationale for agricultural subsidies was largely to help small farmers, but the main beneficiary has long been agribusiness.
In the US, as in Europe, there are many different views about Bosnia, about Arafat, even about protecting farmers.
Trump’s Anti-Service EconomyWASHINGTON, DC – In the nineteenth century, more than 70% of American workers were farmers.
Powerful sugarcane cooperatives, led by major UPA supporters, supposedly drove the government to fix extravagant prices and write off sugar farmers’ bad debts, leading to over-production.
How will farmers – including poor growers in developing countries – increase crop productivity to meet growing food demand?
One of the major reasons farmers find microbial products attractive is that they are formulated from naturally occurring organisms, and do not carry the same risks as synthetic chemicals.
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