Sentences with phrase «poor subsistence farmers»

The winners are Sakhiwe Shongwe and Bonkhe Mahlalela, both 14, and their winning project explores an affordable way to provide hydroponics to poor subsistence farmers, enabling them to grow their crops and vegetables in very large quantities and within limited space without using soil.

Poor subsistence farmers were driven into the landless labor market.

Those crises could mean lost income for American commercial farmers, as well as food shortages for poorer subsistence farmers, who rely on their crops to feed themselves and their families, Lesk said.

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It is not surprising then that after an exhaustive study of the impact of the green revolution in five countries, Keith Griffin concluded that the transfer of capital - intensive, market - oriented technology not only had little positive effect on malnutrition, but actually increased the range of inequality, wiped out many subsistence farmers (usually women in most of the poorer countries), and plunged them further into destitution.

To insist that growers in Nepal only grow OP corn is to insist that they remain poor, subsistence farmers.

Clean energy and health care for the world's poor, initiatives to aid subsistence farmers and combat climate change, and so on and so forth.