Sentence examples for large-scale estates from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, oil palm plantations, especially large-scale estates, have frequently been associated with negative social impacts on rural communities and indigenous people (Telapak 2000; Marti 2008; Sirait 2009; Friends of the Earth Europe (FoE) (FoE) 2010).

Spinola said she frequently gets enquiries from people from India looking to purchase Tuscan farmhouses and Chinese looking for large-scale estates to produce large quantities of wine that they will ship back to their homeland.

After breaking away from the international Fairtrade Labeling Organization (now Fairtrade International), FTUSA announced its rogue Fair Trade for All initiative opening up the model to certify independent smallholders and large-scale "estates" (aka plantations) as fair trade.

The first of the four large-scale estates built by the Artizans Company was Shaftesbury Park, a development of 1,200 two-storey houses covering 42.5 acre built in 1872 on the site of a former pig farm in Battersea.

If the upper-income groups want to do better by themselves, they will have to find a means of assembling large parcels of land and of designing their homes not as single buildings but as units in a large-scale estate, comparable in size and in freedom from through traffic to those erected by the Housing Authority.

I think the more difficult question is when the river becomes effectively integrated into more large-scale land and real estate speculation and at that point.

While narratives focused on national food sovereignty support large-scale food estates in ways that fit a particular politics of food, they overlook the specific livelihood challenges facing rural populations and the problems of food poverty in marginal landscapes.

Each round involves a census of all households in the 12 study sites (2 small towns; 2 roadside settlements; 4 subsistence farming areas; and 4 large-scale agricultural estates), followed by random sampling of individual household members aged 15 54 for interview, with roughly 10,000 individuals interviewed in each round.

The study includes Chinese investments in large-scale real estate but not residential real estate — a hot market in California for Chinese millionaires — or construction projects because those jobs aren't permanent.

In recent years, however, the neighborhood — the first large-scale housing estate that the Singapore government built, from 1936 to the early 1940s — has undergone a renaissance.

Many of the city and state's development plans have been battered by a slowing economy and the credit crisis, which has effectively ended lending for large-scale real estate projects.