Claussen's family was devoted to farming and politics, and he was intensely interested in the latter.
Closing the private purse Fire in the Andes Award Reprints Related items Bolivia's democracy: Rescued, for nowMar 20th 2003 Bolivia: What will the IMF say now?Feb 20th 2003While much of the Altiplano is devoted to subsistence farming, commercial farming, of soya and cotton, is booming in Bolivia's eastern lowlands.
Almost the whole area of the two main islands, outside of Stanley, is devoted to sheep farming.
About one-third of the basin's cultivated land is devoted to cereal farming, and everywhere are olive trees and vineyards.
Swiss farmers are among the keenest on organic food production: more than 10% of their agricultural land is devoted to organic farming, up from less than 2% in the mid-1990s.
Cal Poly sits on 1,321 acres and owns an additional 8,357 acres of rolling campus, some of which is farther north that is devoted to student farming, experimental architecture and other outdoor laboratory studies.
Outside of the Ruhr, much of the state's land is devoted to commercial farms, gardens, or orchards.
Though its northern section is primarily residential, much of its area is devoted to dairying, truck gardening, and farming cash crops.
While most fish farming is devoted to the commercial food market, many governmental agencies engage in it to stock lakes and rivers for sport fishing; there is, in addition, a steady commercial market for goldfish and other decorative fish for home aquariums.
Much of the book is devoted to criticism of the commercial farming of birds and other animals; agricultural practices are blamed for the threat of pandemic influenza.
