Sentences with phrase «for subsistence»

Each year, lowland floods in South Asia destroy 4 million tons of rice, causing chronic food insecurity for subsistence farmers across the region.

It is unlikely that Shuford is calling for our «limited dollars» to go to helping people in Bangladesh adapt to sea level rise, or people in Nepal, Pakistan or Bolivia adapt to a word where glaciers that they depend on for subsistence agriculture have disappeared.

As land once used for subsistence farming is transferred to plantations growing food for export, the GNP is likely to rise, but the ability of ordinary people to feed themselves declines.

The vigorous, vehement and vexed reactions to any piece I have written that mentions climate change, combined with the power of greed on the one hand and the struggle for subsistence on the other, have convinced me there is no chance that governments will significantly reduce the output of industrial greenhouse gases in time to stave off considerable change to the planet's climate and to human habitats.

I can also explain the subsistence of matter in a similar way, by saying that the holomovement provides for the subsistence of matter.

North Atlantic minke whales number about 72,000, and 550 are caught annually, including for subsistence, as well as for scientific whaling.

SLAs are used to calculate safe limits for subsistence hunts.

AFGRI recognised for subsistence farming project and Bakers for its work on fraud prevention training in Tanzania

Whether it be cities in the developed world walloped by superstorms — ahem, New York — or failed crops for subsistence farmers.

Such an attitude derives from an inelasticity of mind which takes for its criterion a home - loving population living on highly durable soils and growing food for both subsistence and export.

«Researchers have known for decades about carnivorous behaviours by tool - making hominins dating back 2.5 million years, but now, for the first time, we have direct evidence of exploitation by our Stone Age ancestors of specific animals for subsistence,» says Nowell.

Those who depend for their subsistence chiefly on a milk diet prefer to use it sour, and medical authority endorses their choice.»

The Inuit community there has relied on these marine mammals for subsistence for thousands of years.

I found that the buffalo hunt was a culturally appropriate activity, one that showed respect for the animal and the need for subsistence for the people.

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.

This HIA, done in conjunction with other environmental assessments under NEPA, made several proposals relating to factors ranging from monitoring pollution to managing caribou herds for subsistence populations,, many of which were later accepted by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

Approximately 78 percent of the Arctic marine mammal populations included in the study are legally harvested for subsistence across the Arctic.

In places where work is scarce there may be increased pressure on natural resources for subsistence use including fuelwood harvesting and slash - and - burn cultivation.

However, Sharma was given a clear brief from Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh: Don't yield on maintaining food security guarantees in India to feed over 820 million needy people; support for subsistence farmers is non-negotiable.

The less we depend on Nature for our subsistence, the less harm we do to her.»

The need may be for simple improvements in farming implements and seeds for subsistence farmers along with aid to peasant villages for improved hygiene and reforestation of their hills.

In Ricardo's day it was assumed that labor worked for subsistence and that subsistence wages were much the same everywhere.

The show reflects the diverse mediums taught at the school, including pieces ranging from an affordable water pump for subsistence farmers to collaborations with young rappers performing interventionist critiques of art museums.

Subsistence benchmark scale rates To reduce the burden on employers, from April 2019 they will no longer be required to check receipts when reimbursing employees for subsistence using benchmark scale rates.

This underdeveloped, agrarian region is known for a subsistence lifestyle, high rates of malnutrition and limited access to healthcare, and is representative of many tropical regions where 40 % of the worlds births occur,

They serve many functions, such as forming the core of livelihood for subsistence fishermen and even function as jewelry and construction materials.

This is a concern not only because water is essential for subsistence, but because it's also the key to economic development.

It seems that not all object manipulation in immatures prepares for subsistence tool use.

While many ethnic groups have hunted wildlife for subsistence over millennia, often with highly detrimental effects [8], the unsustainablility of this practice has accelerated in many areas due to growing human populations, an increasing tendency for wild meat to be traded commercially [9], and the widespread adoption of firearms and motorized transport that increase the efficiency and spatial extent of hunting [10,11].

«This research will now go into the major effort to help create maize varieties in sub-Saharan Africa for subsistence farmers.»

Severe droughts and unpredictable rainfalls are more frequent than ever, with dramatic impacts on the local communities who rely on farming and cattle for their subsistence.

Whales depend on these microscopic creatures for subsistence.

Many generations ago, people relied on seeds and various sprouts for subsistence and nutritional variety.

Lot's of extras are planned for Subsistence, not the least of which is actual online play where you can battle other Snake's online or have one Snake versus a gaggle of enemies (all played by human gamers).

In addition, certain amounts of income are excluded for subsistence living.

Luckily there's a simple solution waiting in the cookery pot: have your settlements farm corn, mutfruit and tatos for subsistence.

The caribou that her community relies upon for subsistence come from the Teshekpuk herd.

The site for the mine is roughly 40 miles west of Anchorage, and is near a native Alaskan tribe that uses the river for subsistence.

Burning dung or charcoal for subsistence cooking and heating imperils both human health and the environment.

In both cases, the additional agricultural output provides much needed additional export revenue and (in the case of Bolivia) additional staple food supply for the subsistence peasant population of the area.

Community Forests legally recognize a community's right to access government owned land in order to use the forest for subsistence.

Marginalized populations tend to depend more directly on local ecosystems for subsistence and survival, so ecosystem stress is likely to affect them more immediately than others.

Evidence of environmental destruction and its consequences for subsistence communities?