Sentence examples for reform settlements from inspiring English sources

Certainly, the agro-ecological conditions are also favourable for other agricultural crops besides sugar cane, and in some regions of São Paulo, e.g. in the municipalities of Pontal do Paranapanema or Ribeirão Preto, agrarian reform settlements are claiming access to land for local food production [44].

While almost two-thirds of these settlements were located in the Amazon region, Pacheco estimates that only 13% of Amazonian deforestation up to 2003 was attributable to smallholders in agrarian reform settlements.

These land reform settlements demonstrated significant regional variation in environmental quality (measured as a weighted composite of legal reserve preservation, deforestation, soil degradation, and ecological restoration), with the highest indices of degradation found in the northern Amazonian states and the lowest in traditionally settled areas of the south and center-west.

Settling smallholders on abandoned land on plots averaging 25 50 hectares has resulted in the development of complex land use mosaics, producing a wide variety of subsistence and market oriented food and fuel crops, as well as ecological restoration activities required under the regulations for protected and reserve areas in agricultural reform settlements.

For example, several agrarian reform settlements bordering protected areas in the threatened Brazilian Atlantic Forest ecosystem have been partners in the strategic protection and reforestation of forest fragments that act as wildlife corridors, facilitating seed dispersal and providing a buffer zone to protected areas.

I once spent several weeks in the cooperatively owned and self-governed land reform settlement where Francisco lives.

The first were hired to run the arts programs at Hull-House (1889), the pioneering early social service and reform "settlement" founded by Jane Addams in Chicago.

Consuelo Castillo, a community organizer in Lempira, a land reform settlement in Bajo Aguán, said, "Our goal is for everyone who is part of the land occupations to have access to land.

Mr Lerach's introduction of corporate-governance reforms into settlements helps him win round conservative judges (who, because settlements usually transfer funds from a company, already owned by its shareholders, to the same shareholders, minus fat legal fees, have tended to see shareholder suits as a negative-sum game).

Organizations led by women, bonded by sisterhood, were formed for social reform, including settlement houses in working class and poor neighborhoods, like Hull House.

"That's why I will be announcing reforms to settlement and the family route which will help bring net migration down from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands over the course of this Parliament".