Sentence examples for control over farmers from inspiring English sources

"It clearly puts seed production and distribution in the hands of companies … Yes, agriculture needs investment, but that shouldn't be used as an excuse to bring greater control over farmers' lives".

"The country will relax overall control over farmers settling in towns and small cities, and relax restrictions on settling in medium-sized cities in an orderly manner," Xinhua reported.

These fears are amplified by a growing concern that farming is on the cusp of a digital revolution that could allow the agribusiness to exert unprecedented control over farmers.

Official policy, he says, is aimed at steering farmers to already deforested areas, while exercising closer control over logging.

Genetically modifying species like corn or soybeans allows the companies to patent seeds, which gives them greater control over what farmers are able to grow--and as a result, greater control over the food supply.

His neatly combed hair and the well-ironed creases in his trousers do not suggest a man with his own rebel army numbering 20,000, and control over 400,000 opium farmers.

For War on Want, food sovereignty – giving farmers control over what they grow and how they grow it, rather than being controlled by agribusiness and commodity speculators – is the only way to develop food security.

During the war with the Soviet Union in the 1980's, and in the first years under the Taliban, with little governmental control over independent warlords and farmers, Afghanistan developed into the world's largest producer of opium, producing a record 4,950 tons in 1999.

We conclude that increasing farmers' control over the quality and content leads their higher demand for the service.

For small and subsistence farmers, control over the movement of animals in the peri-domestic environment is also important to reduce contamination of garden and living spaces with zoonotic pathogens excreted in feces, urine, and other body fluids and tissues of infected animals [ 27, 28].

After all, a project's objective to increase farmer expertise implies that control over implementation shifts from project staff to farmers.