The women here not only grow rice, squash, maize, grain and onions, but also plant trees to shade vegetables, secure shifting sands and prevent soil erosion.
Other mainstream figures in the EU will also be quietly hoping that Tsipras can mount a credible challenge to the Merkel ascendancy and secure a shift in eurozone policymaking – leaders on the centre-left such as Hollande in France and the Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi.
Major changes to transport behaviour and systems will be required in order to secure a shift to sustainable modes of transport and removal of infrastructure that reinforces unsustainable patterns of transportation.
When urban centers such as Damaturu became more secure, attacks shifted to more rural areas, and migration was towards the towns.
Normally, the person said, lead rather than concrete is used because it is much heavier, lies flat and can be more easily secured against shifting.
COULD David Cameron have done anything different at Thursday night's EU summit, when he refused to sign Britain up to new EU treaty rules overseeing taxation and spending in the euro zone, after failing to secure safeguards to shift key areas of financial regulation to vote by unanimity?I was asked this question on the BBC today, and I did not come up with a good answer.
As Dale Harris, 64, a former St . Louiscop who after several months of unemployment recently secured a graveyard shift guarding a nuclear-waste site, told me, "Work is producing something that's of benefit to someone else".
A right-wing think-tank secured a dramatic shift in government policy, to ban charities from using public funds to lobby, after receiving a ring-fenced donation to promote the change, The Independent can reveal.
It's more likely that middle age itself comes with its own peculiar worries: parents age, friends die, children grow up and leave, careers stall, your once secure financial footing shifts unexpectedly beneath your feet.
It's a moment nearly 40 years removed from the last big paradigm shift, secured by the advent of the first significant band, the Beatles, whom the members of Radiohead seem to talk about all the time.
