In recent years it has tried weaning the Wa peasants off the cultivation of opium poppies, sponsoring alternative crops such as rubber and coffee.
Another farm in the Chicago area where the community sponsors the crops, Angelic Organics, makes weekly deliveries to more than 1,400 families in Illinois and Wisconsin.
If farmers have the right to a decent living, the rest of us have to suffer Roosevelt's deadly double of agricultural subsidies and state-sponsored crop cartels.
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The North Country Crop Congresses are sponsored by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Jefferson, Lewis, St. Lawrence, Franklin, Clinton and Essex counties as well as the W.H. Miner Institute.
As a result, community leaders here say, crop-substitution projects sponsored by the Colombian government have been irremediably damaged and their participants left impoverished.
Aiming to "provide a balanced perspective," especially on the ecological risks of transgenic crops, is this site sponsored by Virginia Tech and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
All crop varieties used in projects sponsored by the Benefit-sharing Fund are also part of the International Treaty's Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-sharing.
In fact, the agricultural ministry has in the past sponsored studies to show that meditation improves crops.
I cannot claim to understand the algorithms that allow for products and brands to follow one around the internet, cropping up in banner ads and sponsored posts.
When the New Yorker's science correspondent Michael Specter questioned Indian environmentalist Vandana Shiva's spiritual campaign against GM crops, Shiva suggested that Specter is "sponsored by the GMO movement".
