Sentences with word «fisherfolk»

He saw firsthand as his adopted community mostly of fisherfolk would move further into the deep sea to catch fish that was previously readily available within the shores of Gazi.

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.

«On the occasion of the 2015 Farmers» Day celebrations, I join many other Ghanaians in expressing our sincere appreciation to our farmers and fisherfolk for their hard work and commitment to the cause of building Mother Ghana over the years.»

For farmers in Zambia and fisherfolk in India, the provision of climate finance isn't a game of high stakes political negotiation but an essential down - payment for survival and life with dignity.

As award - winning documentary filmmaker K.P. Sasi shows his film Resisting Coastal Invasion, the resorts appropriate prime beachfronts, leaving the villages at the mercy of the sea, or fence off once - common areas with long swaths of barb - wire, blocking fisherfolk from accessing the sea.

It is not only fisherfolk but also farmers that are affected, because their farmlands are taken away and used as prawn and fish ponds.

The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo has expressed his appreciation to farmers and fisherfolk across the country for their hard work with a similar message from 2015 but with inconsistencies.

The researchers, therefore, argue for some form of «individual transferable quotas» (ITQs) that would give fisherfolk shares in a total allowable catch from a given fishery.

Fisherfolk also hope to measure levels of PAHs in the seafood they were unable to sell so they can claim compensation from BP.

Baile na nGall - Crystal Clear In the crystal clear waters under Helvic Head there is a secluded cove, popular with rock fisherfolk and others.

With its international standard marinas and quality restaurants, Mooloolaba is a favourite anchorage for ocean cruisers and game fisherfolk.

Fisherfolk line the rock wall breakwaters and a tiny beach at river mouth provides protected swimming for youngsters, while the often deserted surf beach stretches out for many miles to the south.

Roland Vibal, of SeaFish for Justice, an association of Asian fisherfolk, informed people about the oncoming mega project of privatization of the coral reefs «The Triangular Coral Initiative».

The research sought evidence of bubble plumes off the coast, such as based on research cruise observation, earlier studies, and reports from local fisherfolk.

Koli fisherfolk have inhabited the seven islands that form Mumbai as far back as the 2nd century BC.

Smallholder and subsistence farmers, pastoralists and artisanal fisherfolk will suffer complex, localized impacts of climate change... [including] spread in prevalence of human diseases affecting agricultural labor supply.»

Again, the use of mechanised trawlers in the fish industry has resulted in threatening all fish life, and the traditional fisherfolk have still not recovered from the loss they have suffered.

«On the occasion of the 2016 Farmers» Day celebrations, I join all Ghanaians in expressing our sincere appreciation to our farmers and fisherfolk for their hard work and commitment to the cause of building Mother Ghana over the years.»

Hi - tech development under globalisation is further marginalising the poorer sections of traditional society especially the dalits, the tribals, the fisherfolk and the women by destroying their traditional living and community life by alienating them from the land, the forest and the water sources by which they made their living.

It was and still is a center of the fisherfolk.

Farmers, fisherfolk and indigenous people, especially women producers of food and other primary products suffer from the globalization in most Asian countries.

One may say, the natural basis of life was protected in the traditional societies by the fisherfolk, the tribals, the women and the feminist principle of their living by nature.

In Kerala, the fisherfolk know how fishing by modern boats destroys not only the livelihood of the fisherfolk but also the fish in the sea since unlike the traditional fishing community the boat fishing has no sensitivity to the natural cycle of fish life.

There are two types of human rights - one is the peoples» rights, the rights of tribal peoples, rights of dalits, of women, the fisherfolk i.e. the rights of peoplehood of certain sections of society; and two, within each people, the rights of each person.

For instance, the fisherfolk who live by the sea, the rivers and the lakes, the tribals who live by the forests and their produce.

So the pattern of high - tech development has increased the oppression of these people - the tribals, the dalits, the fisherfolk and women.

in the context of the present government policy of high - tech development based on the global free market, the dalits, the tribals and the fisherfolk are increasingly getting alienated from the Land, the Forest and the Water - sources respectively which have been giving them their living, and are also getting uprooted from their habitat and culture; and women are commoditized and their sexuality, fertility and labour are increasingly commercialized.

The dalits, the tribals, the fisherfolk and women who have been outside the power - structures of traditional society and state have become more oppressed through technological advance giving their traditional oppressors more power.

In fact the local struggles of the organized movements of dalits, tribals, fisherfolk and women, for living and for survival (some of which have been partly or temporarily successful), against specific expressions of market - directed pattern of development, have been a potent force to educate the middle class regarding the inhuman reality of the present development paradigm; such education is necessary to achieve even our short - term objective.

Actually these marginalised people lived by nature's bounties - the dalits through agricultural labour on land, the tribals by the resources of the forests, the fisherfolk of the sea and other water sources and the women by the organic functions of family life.

The traditional societies of Asia have marginalised the dalits, the tribals, the fisherfolk and women and have denied them any part in the decision - making processes of society and they have reinforced it by getting religions to declare them ritually impure because they live close to organic nature and deal with its wastes.

The fisherfolk experiences an awakening to selfhood.

In a paper prepared by the Kerala Swatantara Matsya Thozilali Federation (Trade Union of Fisher People) it is said, because of the massive fish epidemic caused by the use of some pesticides, people refuse to buy fish today This has resulted in making the fisherfolk jobless.

It also recognises that farming is political and a sustainable farming system requires us to challenge the current power imbalance in the food system and put the control of seeds and other resources into the hands of the estimated two billion small farmers, fisherfolk, peasants and pastoralists that currently feed our world.

They were originally meant for soldiers, pilgrims, fisherfolk and others who would be away from home for extended periods.

With modernisation and diversification of agriculture being a key component of the NPP's 4 - Point Agenda for the development of Ghana, I wish to assure our farmers and fisherfolk that the blessing of oil will not distract an Akufo - Addo - led NPP government from making the agricultural sector more sophisticated, more productive and more efficient.

With modernisation and diversification of agriculture being a key component of the NPP's 4 - Point Agenda for the development of Ghana, I wish to assure our farmers and fisherfolk that the blessing of oil will not distract an Akufo - Addo - led NPP government from growing the agricultural sector and making it more modern, more efficient and therefore, more productive.

The ice - making machine has the capacity to produce some 30 tons of ice per day to preserve the catch, as against the previous capacity of 15 tons of ice per day, with the President expecting a substantial rise in the activities of our fisherfolk and traders in Sekondi, and in surrounding communities, following the completion of the Harbour.

And like the Ukrainians and Belarusians who never returned to the exclusion zone, residents in the towns near Fukushima Daiichi may never return home permanently, and local farmers and fisherfolk may not be able to resume their professions.

Or you can get to know the traditional fisherfolk, the Bajau Ubian, and spend time in the village with a homestay programme.