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Workers tore down fences Wednesday inside a 14-acre urban garden while evicted farmers and their supporters kept watch and vowed to prevent bulldozing of the inner-city greenspace.
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By John Holland, The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Sep. 9--Proposed ways of protecting farming in Stanislaus County will go before the public Tuesday and Sept. 18. County officials have drafted revisions to the agricultural element of the general plan.
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Crops damaged by recent wet weather are being left to rot because it is too wet to harvest them, farmers say.
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Zimbabwe's national security minister has told the country's last remaining white farmers that they will be jailed if they refuse to abide by a deadline that passed over the weekend for them to leave their farms, according to a newspaper report on Monday.
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The Ramblers Association calls for the Scottish right of access to the countryside to be safeguarded.
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Rural campaigners say stricter planning controls are needed on mobile phone mast sites to reflect public concerns.
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By Angel Riggs and Michael Overall, Tulsa World, Okla.  Feb. 13--OKLAHOMA CITY -- Aggravated farmers seem ready to put down their guns now that environmentalists have taken steps to protect crops from wild elk, officials said Monday.
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Future generations will not be able to afford to buy rural homes without government action, two bodies warn.
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As farmers are pitted against developers allied with local officials, peasants and other rural landowners who still make up 60 percent of China's 1.3 billion people increasingly have tried to resist.
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Residents in three villages apply for an injunction to prevent animal rights extremists entering the area.
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Settlers called today for civil disobedience to resist plans to dismantle settlements in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
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Landowners in a North Carolina town have been clear-cutting thousands of trees to keep them from becoming homes for the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker.
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Environmental groups are calling on the Welsh Assembly Government to strengthen the law to help prevent damage caused by growing genetically modified crops in Wales.
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Handing over more greenfield land to housing will not curb rising prices, say campaigners.
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By Betsy Z. Russell, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Jan. 31--Grass seed farmers on the Rathdrum Prairie set their fields ablaze every summer, sending plumes of thick smoke into the skies. And the state of Idaho defends the controversial practice.
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The Scottish Executive vows to protect Scotland's salmon farming industry from foreign imports.
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The government insists that it will do what it can to support areas of England devastated by flooding.