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...Punjab Pollution Control Board is holding a meeting in the coming weeks to decide what action to take. For the moment, the government doesn't seem to have a plan of action, though piecemeal steps are afoot. It is promoting herbal pesticides and extending outreach programs to better educate farmers about the dangers of pesticide overuse-not only in this region but all over Punjab. Some farmers are taking up organic farming, and many scientists have been calling for a return to crops more suited to the local landscape-in the case of the Malwa region, pulses and cereals like...
...died in 2003, Edita Burgos became a lay Carmelite nun. Jonas himself briefly considered joining the priesthood, but instead took a degree in agriculture, specializing in organic farming. When the family relocated from Manila to a farm in Bulacan province, Jonas adopted rural life wholesale. "He dressed like a farmer," says Edita. "He was just like them in his manner, so he could relate to them. He had a rapport with the people...
...There's little immediate relief in sight, because Africa's farmers face their own inflation problems and can't easily boost output. The FAO predicts that food prices will remain high for years to come, but that galloping price rises will begin to slow down. For poor farmers that is little cause for cheer. The surging price of oil has made using tractors costly, and the cost of fertilizer has doubled in Uganda over the past year, says Kenneth Kaboi, a 19-year-old farmer who was out in his family's maize field recently in Uganda's lush Kapchorwa...
...while state coffers remain full, the economy is troubled. A coalition of farmers and farm owners has staged disruptive demonstrations against the President and her policies for 80 days now, garnering a large degree of public support, fueled largely by frustration at the government's inability to deal with inflation. Says Ricardo Gomez, a farmer from the central province of Cordoba: "Cristina projected the promise that she could continue to provide the economic bonanza while distancing herself from Kirchner's authoritarian streak, but she turned out to be even tougher than her husband." Her government has called the farmers "oligarchs...
Leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) since it was formed in 1964, Pedro Antonio Marin was known to his comrades-in-arms by his nom de guerre, Manuel Marulanda--or by the nickname Tirofijo, "Sureshot," which he earned for his marksmanship. The son of a peasant farmer, and a rebel fighter since his teens, Marulanda lived much of his life in Colombia's mountains and jungles. There, despite having only a sixth-grade education, he directed FARC's antigovernment operations, kidnapping and, later, drug trafficking. He was believed...