Sentences with phrase «farmers abandoning their land»

Separate analyses of documents from ancient Egypt — everything from inscriptions on monuments to tax records, poems, and letters — hint that eruptions may have contributed to social unrest, including riots, tensions between Egyptians and their Greek overlords, famines and plagues, and farmers abandoning their land and moving to the cities.

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Farmers, the original entrepreneurs, are finding a profitable niche in the vast amount of abandoned land in the Motor City.

As coffee prices fall, such as during the coffee crisis in the 1990s, some farmers simply abandoned their land.

Pricey organic farmers markets in New Paltz and Rhinebeck belie hundreds of acres of trailer parks and abandoned land spreading to the north and west.

Reports blamed the conflict for changes in land use and cover — and for activities like increased military traffic over unpaved surfaces and farmers reducing irrigation or abandoning agricultural land — that created extreme amounts of dust to fuel the storm.

As the drought continued, farmers and their families abandoned their land and headed to urban areas for work.

Farmers fearing for the health of their herds caused an estimated 150,000 acres of cattle land to be abandoned.

Teachers might explain how mechanized cotton farming made production cheaper, causing farmers to abandon other crops and pressure the federal government for more land to use for growing.

In many cases farmers in the region — among the poorest people in the world — are abandoning their lands and migrating to already overcrowded cities.

Even large - scale farmers who are allocated large areas for cultivation, abandon the land and leave it as bare when it becomes non-productive.

The NESTown development concept envisions the building of self - sufficient, environmentally friendly «semi-urban centers» in rural Ethiopia that would allow farmers to improve their financial prospects without abandoning the land.

But another excerpt from the movie is just as revealing about what it really means to be truly resilient — and this one comes from a former teacher turned urban farmer who is making a living from the land on less than half - an - acre of abandoned inner city real estate.We have, of course, covered the urban farming scene in Detroit many times over here on TreeHugger.