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...free-loader, could be asking. Where do you draw the line between a sustainable farm and an unsustainable one? It's a judgment that has been made on entire industries in the past, when governments removed or cut the tariffs that protected the manufacturing sector. Why prop up farmers who are bad managers or whose poor practices on unproductive land are hurting the environment? The signals drought policy sends to good farmers are certainly mixed. And how come a 50-year-old waterside worker or factory machinist is obliged to re-train or relocate to an area where there...
...rural adviser from a major bank says that when a farmer has the bad luck to be stuck with marginal land, staying on it can often be a matter of choice, even a "lifestyle decision." Government handouts only "prolong the day of having to make a tough call," he says. "It's like if I set up a small shop on the outskirts of town and then Coles comes along. Would the government protect me?" Observers foresee a day of reckoning brought about by agricultural consolidation. Foreign investors, such as major hedge funds, are picking up prime farm land...
...Farmer said that public health awareness and activity at Harvard has “skyrocketed” in recent years. He estimated that when he had been a medical student at Harvard in the 1980s, five to 10 percent of the student body was aware of public health concerns, as opposed to as much as half today...
...Farmer, who currently teaches at the Harvard Medical School and who co-taught an undergraduate freshman seminar on AIDS in the Caribbean in the spring of 2005, said the change at Harvard is due mainly to the varied projects students are involved...
...conclude that the present spectacle of celebrities competing over who can do the most for the poor is not such a bad thing, that still leaves one more disturbing piece of the story. David was not an orphan. His father, a potato farmer named Yohane, brought him to the orphanage after losing his wife and two other sons, and was too poor, too broken to take care of David anymore. "They are a lovely couple," Yohane said of Madonna and her husband Guy Ritchie. "She asked me many questions. She and her husband seem happy with David. Madonna promised...