Farm work is being offered on prescription in a trial aimed at helping patients with their rehabilitation.
He marched the students off to do farm work in the villages, supervised by China's no-nonsense peasantry.
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They are relying entirely on humanitarian assistance, even though there are some employment opportunities, such as farm work in Jordan, he said.
After finishing his government-imposed farm work, he managed to enter a local university in pursuit of an engineering degree at the ripe age of 30.
And in many countries women do most of the farm work.
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Young people living in rural areas require new coping mechanisms to deal with climate change and shrinking farm sizes, and to exploit opportunities for off-farm work.
They need training in business and marketing to find opportunities beyond farm work and reduce the obligation of migrating to cities in search of a job.
Mr. Li and other Chinese scholars and labor experts say workers from earlier generations, who hailed mainly from poor farms in China's hinterland, were accustomed to hard farm work and more single-mindedly focused on making money.
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Even those who remained in the fields due to lack of language skills, little education or other barriers still benefited, because they were able to claim unemployment insurance and other benefits when farm work dried up for the season.
It's a prime example of how a small, environmentally sound farm can work and be profitable.
It takes 60, 000 farm hands to work the four-week harvest in late summer.
Someday, though, Goudey pictures a mobile fish farm that could work like this: Put hatchlings in cages into a Caribbean gyre near Barbados.
GDP, but since half of China's 700m workers are engaged in farm-related work, the privatisation of farming is the biggest reason why three-quarters of China's workforce is today in private employment.
In the current issue of the McKinsey Quarterly, W. Brian Arthur, an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute, warns that technology is quickly taking over service jobs, following the waves of automation of farm and factory work.
That might come about as unemployment rises, especially if some migrants are better able than natives to keep jobs, for example in farm or care work, perhaps because of a willingness to work long hours for low pay.
Employers then are even more eager to slash costs and farm out the support work.
Olson says that Farm Rescue's work supports the spirit of the American farmer.
Guinea worm disease is usually non-fatal, but causes crippling pain and can immobilize its victims from being able to work, farm and function.
Unpaid internships seem to be an example of mutual utility: inexperienced youngsters learn something about a chosen field while employers get to farm out some menial work.
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The council added that it was continuing to work with the farm to ensure the safety of visitors.
Molinka Kaseike(ph) used to work on a commercial farm about 30 miles outside of Harare.
They volunteered to work on a pig farm at a kibbutz called Dafna, in the Upper Galilee, near the Lebanese border.
Under a new directive, Russian, Belarussian and Ukrainian farm workers will no longer require work permits for seasonal jobs of up to three months.
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"Farmers have indicated to us that there is a shortage of farm labour, especially for seasonal work, " the ministry said in a statement, quoted by the AFP news agency.
Put simply, this is the point at which a developing country stops being able to achieve rapid growth relatively easily, by simply taking rural workers doing unproductive farm labour and putting them to work in factories and cities instead.
The Wildlife Trusts, the national co-ordinating body for the 46 county trusts, has called for a four-tier scheme of support "which would pay farmers to help wildlife, with a scale of awards to reflect the amount of environmental work undertaken on each farm".
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