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These farmers, who cultivate plots about the size of one or two football fields, typically lack reliable irrigation systems and quality inputs, such as seeds and soil supplements.
For example, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, supplies high-quality seeds – many of which are drought-resistant – to millions of smallholder farmers across the continent.
A potential Russia-China axis based on shared resistance to US hegemony carries the seeds of a new bipolarity.
For starters, the lack of capital makes it difficult for women to buy quality seeds and fertilizer, or even to access farmland, which in turn reduces agricultural productivity.
Once again, Spain is proposing practical and innovative means to move from talk to action, specifically to help impoverished peasant farmers to get the tools, seeds, and fertilizer that they need to increase their farm productivity, incomes, and food security.
Stalin thrived on the barbaric forced industrialization that planted the seeds of the communist system’s destruction.
In 1992, its stupid insistence on strict Russian debt servicing of Soviet-era debts sowed the seeds for today’s bitter relations.
In this context, when politicians campaign for votes by advancing antagonistic and divisive identity politics, they sow the seeds of animosity, mistrust, and violence within their own societies.
When the US pursued similar policies in the 1920s and 1930s, it helped sow the seeds of World War II.
These funds may prove to be an effective short-term salve, but, over the long run, they will likely fuel moral-hazard problems, and potentially plant the seeds of deeper crises in the future.
By contrast, skeptics hold that the US economy already contains the seeds of its own socio-economic decline.
However, the seeds of a new wave of "reform" have taken root, and await an early thaw to sprout.
Planting the Seeds of Africa’s GrowthWEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA – After decades of bad news, at least three major trends are turning Africa’s way: agricultural policies, rural demography, and farm productivity all promise improved opportunities for farm families across the continent.
I count 18 unique successes in 2017, many of which will help sow the seeds of progress for the months and years ahead.
Second, they should deal with both creditors and debtors – some countries’ solutions address only one or the other, sowing the seeds for future problems.
By using high-yield seeds, better soil management, and proper row planting, the community has more than tripled its crop production, and villagers who previously were hungry grain buyers are now food-secure grain sellers.
Each household in the project receives about $100 a year in seeds, fertilizers, and other supports.
Increases in agricultural productivity, owing to improvements in seeds, new fertilizers and pesticides, improved credit access, and technological breakthroughs, have been a key driver in reducing hunger.
A Mukimabad villager had the same vision for Bangladesh: “We need crops and seeds which are not vulnerable to salinity and flood so that we do not have to die from food shortages.”
But their efforts to protect their bases of power and establish a more Islam-friendly polity have served only to harden existing social divisions and sow the seeds of future conflict.
Upon rereading former US Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott’s book The Great Experiment, I was left with the impression that the seeds of some of the dynamics at play today were sown some time ago.
In those months, the seeds of my conversion to all things British were planted, which flowered decades later in my becoming a British citizen.
At the same time, occasional spurts of faster growth regularly sowed the seeds for various crises, often resulting in devaluations of the Italian currency, the lira.
In 2015, Deere & Company reported $29 billion in sales, surpassing the $25 billion that Monsanto and Bayer made selling seeds and pesticides.
The confluence of soil and weather “big data,” new agrotechnologies, genetically modified seeds, and new developments in agrochemistry will help these companies save money, protect natural resources, and maximize crop yields worldwide.
By fostering ceaseless collusion between politicians and businessmen – the former providing favors to the chaebols, the latter providing political funds to the rulers – within this national objective lay the seeds of today's crisis.
This approach led to the meltdown of 2008-2009, and it could well sow the seeds of another crisis in the years ahead.
Indeed, on virtually every politically volatile issue--from nuclear testing to communal conflict - Congress sowed the seeds and Vajpayee's nationalist BJP party reaps the hideous harvest.
Even more important is the promotion of higher-quality seeds to produce better crop yields, increase production, and boost incomes.
Most worrisome is America’s huge dependence on foreign borrowing, particularly from China – an imbalance that likely planted the seeds of the current crisis.
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