- Hunger
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- Nov 07, 2020
Farmers Quotes
Lines on the people who work the land.
These quotes speak to the pressures facing farmers today, including the striking claim that hundreds are leaving the profession every week even as others keep fighting on their behalf. Related themes continue in our Farm quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Farmers and ranchers need long-term certainty about who they will be able to sell to and under what terms.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
The move towards a unified agricultural market helps farmers get correct remuneration for their produce.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms.
- Fertilizer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many African smallholder farmers did not share in the 'green revolution' productivity gains driven by modern seeds and techniques, irrigation, and greater fertilizer use in Asia and Latin America in the 1960s.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the ten years leading up to 2013, quinoa prices nearly tripled on the back of skyrocketing international demand for the latest 'superfood'. The grain had traditionally been cultivated in the high Andean plateau, principally for household consumption. But as prices rose, farmers' incentive to sell it as a cash crop grew.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
Companies that operate across borders have the expertise SMEs need. Who better to help smallholder farmers navigate complex sustainability standards than the companies who demand - or set - them?
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm super supportive of locally grown foods and farmers. Here in L.A., I know all of my farmers markets and go there weekly.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years, Hizb-I-Islami fighters have had a reputation for being more educated and worldly than their Taliban counterparts, who are often illiterate farmers.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is time for us to make a real commitment to our rural communities by expanding broadband, by supporting our farmers, by building affordable housing and taking on rural poverty. That's how we leave no one behind.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020