Sentences with phrase «even subsistence farmers»

Kevin: Even subsistence farmers in, say, equatorial Africa are depending these days on metals and fabrics that they can not source from outside the industrial economy, and which they would be hard put to replace successfully.

Even subsistence farmers in, say, equatorial Africa are depending these days on metals and fabrics that they can not source from outside the industrial economy, and which they would be hard put to replace successfully.

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Unconsciously, perhaps, the subsistence farmer, and even the peasant village, are assimilated to images of an unhistorical nature which serves civilization and industrialization but has no inherent reality.

In fact, many multiple cropping systems, such as those developed by smallholders and subsistence farmers, even show higher yields in terms of total harvest per unit area.

If the chicken coops of subsistence farmers are hot spots of resistance gene transfer, he speculated that bacteria present in industrial farming operations — where chickens regularly receive antibiotics — would see even more pressure to share resistance genes.

We call them subsistence farmers and uneducated, but they are masters of self sufficiency and posses skills that few of of us educated in America can even understand.

Other complications arise from the girl's family, subsistence farmers who don't even know what a lawyer is and worry about the possibility of a ruinous feud with the dead man's family if they take legal action to defend their daughter.

«REDD is a good initiative, but it's not all - inclusive,» says COMESA Secretary General Sindiso Ngwenya, who derided a REDD - only approach as «political, social, economic apartheid» that punished subsistence farmers even as the Clean Development Mechanism pays for new power plants in China and India.