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  • I am an agri-food student from a non-farming background and so can understand the views of the producers and the consumers.

    Comment is free readers on … supermarket price wars | The people's panel 2011

  • The newest requirement for farm plans in non-farming residentail areas is the latest attack against Haoles.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Wow, I Have Never Been Able To Play the “Oppressed Minority” Card Before 2009

  • The Seri are not farmers, but IMO's Fair Wild program offers fair trade certification of such non-farming projects, ensuring that wild collection is also done in an ecologically-sustainable manner.

    David Bronner: Going Fair Trade 2010

  • These countries 'non-farming poor will fare even worse.

    Report Says High Food Prices 2008

  • In non-farming families, women often worked alongside their spouses in their trades and in their shops, assisting in the production of goods and attending customers, while remaining responsible for child care and other household tasks.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2008

  • “If there were ever an onerous, anti-competitive, anti-free-market provision, this is it,” said Sen. Charles E. Schumer D-N.Y., who led the effort and who warned that non-farming states could face spikes in gasoline prices because of supply limitations.

    Clinton And Obama: Similarities And Differences 2007

  • In your case it may be true only because the land has become so valuable for non-farming purposes.

    Althouse coffeehouse. Ann Althouse 2007

  • The historical exemplar of this is an agrarian farming community with the occasional non-farming specialty tradesman, but distributists stress that they are not advocating that everybody turn to farming or reject technology source.

    Capitalism and Economic Liberty, and the aims of Distributism Athanasius 2007

  • The historical exemplar of this is an agrarian farming community with the occasional non-farming specialty tradesman, but distributists stress that they are not advocating that everybody turn to farming or reject technology source.

    Archive 2007-08-01 John M 2007

  • Agricultur accounted for 70 percent of the labour force in LDCs in 2000-2003, but overall, the decade 2000-2010 will be the first in which the economically active non-farming population is forecast to grow faster than its rural counterpart.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

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