For centuries, inland residents farmed and coastal residents fished.
There was a band, a Boy Scout troop and a self-sufficient community where residents farmed and raised cattle, pigs and chickens.
Most residents farm their own land.
The authors were prompted to focus on the role of pesticides in these conditions after noting that subpopulations with the highest rates of diabetes and obesity impoverished residents of inner cities and residents of farming communities also tended to have the highest pesticide exposures.
The target cohort, consisting of adult (>18 years of age) farmers, farm residents, farm employees, and veterinarians who had been exposed to affected herds, were invited to participate by donating a serum sample and filling in a questionnaire.
Residents stopped farming and ordered food from the supermarket.
A number of residents on farming properties to the west of York heard a large aircraft flying low over the area.
Kenyan startups have developed a host of mobile services -- from delivering agricultural information like crop prices via text messages to providing financial information -- to help rural residents make farming a viable business.
The plan is partly carried out, though in most cases villages have been moved to adjacent high grounds and residents still farm the same vulnerable lands.
We will hire local residents to farm the selected land.
