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To be sure, Nkhoma’s ideas about how to transform the lives of peasant farmers in Africa are not new.
Czarist rule withstood many harsh tests during its long history: peasant revolts, conspiracies, and the alienation of the educated class.
Bolivia's peasant coca cultivators are viewed not as indigenous people trying to survive in a region mostly without jobs, but as drug traffickers.
Desperate for any assistance at all, Bolivia's governments ultimately uprooted thousands of hectares of peasant crops--and got almost nothing in return but a lot of phony slogans about alternative development.
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.
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.
Today, we do not fear primitive populism or peasant protests; we should, however, begin to fear for the future of Polish democracy, indeed for all the postcommunist democracies.
If capitalists are corrupt, how can you convince a poor peasant to believe in the market economy?
For example, Russia has had "shti" (cabbage soup), "ukha" (fish soup), "pokhlebka" (everything soup), "selyanka" (peasant soup), "botviniya" (cold beet soup), "okroshka" (spring vegetable soup).
Chen, a blind peasant and self-taught lawyer, had protested in 2005 against the kidnapping of some 3000 women in his hometown of Linyi.
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.
Its demise could come via a military coup or a palace coup; a worker uprising or a peasant uprising; a consequence of economic failure or something that simply reflects the banality of the entire place.
Poland's Jacquerie"Bless... the peasant who is born, eats, and dies without anyone bothering about his affairs."
Like everyone else, our peasants vote their fears and choose as their representatives the peasant parties who think that political stalemate is the only way to preserve Poland's rural way of life.
You can deplore such social feelings, as I do, but the myth of the Polish peasant hero standing against communist collectivization on his small private plot seems ineradicable, even if it is undeserved.
Indeed, those laid off generally do not return to peasant life, but become urban entrepreneurs in the service industries of China's new cities.
Some months ago Poland faced a wave of peasant strikes.
The vast majority of its projects treat forest peoples and peasant farmers as the main agents of deforestation.
Today, peasant farmers are being barred from forests as part of the fight against climate change; tomorrow, the same forests could be uprooted in order to allow companies to extract the fossil fuels that are the underlying cause of the problem.
Rather than attempting to control the lives and actions of forest peoples and peasant farmers, the effort in Paris should focus on ending large-scale deforestation and leaving fossil fuels in the ground.
Some police and army officers deserted and the commander-in-chief ran away from the battlefield dressed as a peasant.
If the Bank provides grants to poor countries to help small peasant farmers gain access to improved inputs, then it will be possible for those countries to increase their food production in a short period of time.
The CGIAR system maintains more than 600,000 samples of crop varieties in gene banks, mostly collected from peasant fields.
Farmland and seeds, pre-modern forms of capital, were collectively developed through generations of peasant endeavor that landlords appropriated by stealth.
When US-led forces overthrew Saddam Hussein in 2003, far too little effort was made to understand how a peasant tyrant like Saddam was able to seize power and hold it for so long.
The leading Soviet anti-Semitic slur was “rootless cosmopolitan,” a term used to refer to Jewish intellectuals and one that Vladimir Putin would be perfectly comfortable with today as he revives a Russian nationalism based on the Russian Orthodox Church, Mother Russia, and Slavic peasant culture.
A peasant agro-ecological production system based on food sovereignty, small-scale farming, and agro-ecology could, La Via Campesina argues, halve carbon emissions from agriculture within a few decades.
In previous societies, one's status as a peasant, artisan, or merchant often defined one totally.
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.
For example, La Via Campesina – an international movement comprising peasants, smallholder farmers, agricultural workers, rural women and youth, indigenous people, and others – has shown how peasant agriculture and agroecology can cool the planet, feed its inhabitants, nurture its soil, support its forests, safeguard seed diversity, and protect water basins.
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