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Or two: You give 100,000 dollars to one savvy entrepreneur and help her set up a factory that yields 40 percent additional income to all 500 banana farmers and creates 50 additional jobs.
We hope to help solve food security, empower farmers, create jobs, develop the local economy, and we hope to become rich in the process.
For this reason, farmers plant rice varieties that carry genes for resistance.
He said, "Seventy million rice farmers are having trouble growing rice."
That's because their fields are flooded, and these rice farmers are living on less than two dollars a day.
I love this video because it shows the power of plant genetics to help farmers.
Last year, with the help of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, three and a half million farmers grew Sub1 rice.
To control this serious pest, which can devastate the entire eggplant crop in Bangladesh, Bangladeshi farmers spray insecticides two to three times a week, sometimes twice a day, when pest pressure is high.
But we know that some insecticides are very harmful to human health, especially when farmers and their families cannot afford proper protection, like these children.
Organic farmers like my husband Raoul spray an insecticide called B.T., which is based on a bacteria.
Last season, farmers reported they were able to reduce their insecticide use by a huge amount, almost down to zero.
We must ask if farmers in rural communities can thrive, and if everyone can afford the food.
Pamela Ronald: Okay, so on the commercial aspects, one thing that's really important to understand is that, in the developed world, farmers in the United States, almost all farmers, whether they're organic or conventional, they buy seed produced by seed companies.
So there's definitely a commercial interest to sell a lot of seed, but hopefully they're selling seed that the farmers want to buy.
Farmers there cannot afford the seed.
That's not being sourced from Colombian druglords, but Guatemalan farmers.
If you go to Calais and talk to refugees, you'll meet lawyers, politicians, engineers, graphic designers, farmers, soldiers.
Coral reefs are farmers.
But to the illegal loggers and cattle farmers, it's just another resource to exploit.
As the great ocean hero Jacques Cousteau once said, "We must start using the ocean as farmers instead of hunters.
And at the moment, in my country, for instance, we often send engineers to rural areas and farmers to the cities, which makes no sense at all.
Building an innovative water filtration system could provide a solution for farmers working in drought-stricken regions, or a way to clean municipal water in polluted cities.
We are providing free electricity to our rural farmers.
Lever number one: most of the world's poor are farmers.
When farmers become more productive, then more than half the world's poor earn more money and climb out of poverty.
So when farmers become more productive, they earn more food, and they don't just help themselves, but they help to feed healthy communities and thriving economies.
And when farmers become more productive, they reduce environmental pressure.
Farmers are basically a really important leverage point.
When farmers become more productive, they earn more income, they climb out of poverty, they feed their communities and they reduce environmental land pressure.
Most of the farmers I know are actually women.
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