Sentences with phrase «by subsistence farmers»

Surprisingly, just like many of the human beings trying to scratch out a living in those countries, it's such a burden in the first world to have to worry so much about how the domesticated animals are treated by subsistence farmers and shepherds in the developing world, isn't it?

It is claimed these new plantations can be created across «marginal» and «degraded» land in «which the occupants are not engaged in economic activity», meaning land used by subsistence farmers, pastoralists, hunters and gatherers and others not producing commodities for the mass market.

Not exact matches

His parents were subsistence farmers who, like others, had been forced by their new masters to give some of their land to the state so while they were never hungry, they lived extremely simply.

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.

Gary Toenniessen, associate director of agricultural sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York, which funded part of the work, says that the initiative will allow Mexican subsistence farmers to grow and sell potatoes carrying a gene owned by Monsanto, a US biotech - nology company.

Light - fingered chimpanzees are changing the way subsistence farmers make a living in Africa by causing them to grow different crops and spend more time guarding their goods.

So Apatosaurus protagonist Arlo (voiced by Raymond Ochoa) is born into a family of homesteading subsistence farmers, constantly worried that the crops will fail and leave them with insufficient food to survive the brutal winters in the shadow of the Clawtooth Mountains.

Access to modern veterinary care matched by an understanding of contemporary animal health and husbandry protocols can help create a pathway for farmers in rural communities of developing countries to make their way from subsistence to productivity and profitability.

This is a Green Planet initiative for providing humanitarian support and environmental benefit by helping farmers in rural subsistence communities to achieve sustainable agriculture through appropriate land management and agro-industrial techniques.

Máxima Acuña, Peru: A subsistence farmer in Peru's northern highlands, Máxima Acuña stood up for her right to peacefully live off her own land, a property sought by Newmont and Buenaventura Mining to develop the Conga gold and copper mine.

While only a fraction of this cultivation currently occurs in the Amazon rainforest, production in neighboring areas like the cerrado grassland helps drive deforestation by displacing small farmers and cattle producers, who then clear rainforest land for subsistence agriculture and pasture.

As many as half of all land transfers from subsistence farmers to agro-businesses are driven by biofuels.

Your average African or Southeast Asian subsistence farmer would ride out this kind of transient tech disaster easily, assuming they haven't already watched their soil blow away or be poisoned by relentless anthropogenic global warming.

I would say that making the food, fuel and energy more expensive, that the subsistence farmer in Nepal uses, in exchange for slowing the rate of growth of global warming by.01 C per century (just an example) and slowing the Nepal government from slowly providing electricity to their citizens would not be good idea (on a cost benefit analysis).