Sentences with phrase «dependent landless»

For instance, the steady destruction of our natural forests, pasture lands and inland coastal water bodies has not only meant increased economic poverty for millions of tribals, nomads and traditional fisherfolk, but also a slow cultural and social death: a dismal change from rugged self - sufficient human beings to abjectly dependent landless laborers and squalor - stricken urban migrants.

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They were, and still are, coerced to survive mostly as landless agricultural laborers, wholly dependent on the good - will of the caste Hindu landlords.

We, the Catholic Church, the landless movement (MST) and other groups called for a Zero Deforestation law to save the Amazon and its forest dependent people.