Sentences with phrase «for subsistence agriculture»

Moreover, a large proportion of deforestation is not taking place for subsistence agriculture, but for cattle ranching, oil palm plantations, timber extraction and other commercial enterprises — many of which are supplying raw materials to the rich world.

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.

Not exact matches

Subsistence farmers are then forced to till land that is not suitable for agriculture.

He commended Gov. Yahaya Bello, for his commitment towards making Kogi the agricultural hub of Nigeria, which had encouraged farmers to see agriculture as a business and no longer subsistence farming.

The unpredictability of rainfall — when, how often and how much — makes subsistence agriculture a crapshoot for rural farmers in the Bolivian Amazon, and the randomness is expected to get only worse.

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.

Over the past 15 - 30 years, depending on the country, large - scale commodity production for urban and international markets has replaced subsistence agriculture as the biggest driver of tropical deforestation worldwide.

Among the risks the continent faces are reductions in food security and agricultural productivity, particularly regarding subsistence agriculture, increased water stress and, as a result of these and the potential for increased exposure to disease and other health risks, increased risks to human health.»

This analytical report provides an overview of what climate change will mean to subsistence and smallholder farmers in Lesotho, and how the capacity for climate change adaptation in agriculture can be strengthened, focusing on selected areas of crops, livestock and forest - based livelihood systems, to stabilize and improve yields.

The scope of this chapter, with a focus on food crops, pastures and livestock, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry (commercial forests), aquaculture and fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculturalists and artisanal fishers, is to: examine current climate sensitivities / vulnerabilities; consider future trends in climate, global and regional food security, forestry and fisheries production; review key future impacts of climate change in food crops pasture and livestock production, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry, fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculture; assess the effectiveness of adaptation in offsetting damages and identify adaptation options, including planned adaptation to climate change; examine the social and economic costs of climate change in those sectors; and, explore the implications of responding to climate change for sustainable development.

This doesn't reflect that most of the world is subsistence agriculture / fishing / wood chopping for personal consumption (I grew up on a farm and we did a lot of personal consumption which didn't make it into the GDP).

In South Asia, distress migration owing to climate events and particularly droughts is high, as over three - quarters of the population is dependent on agriculture, out of which more than half are subsistence farmers depending on rains for irrigation.

12: Indigenous Peoples).91, 101 Warming also releases human - caused pollutants, such as poleward - transported mercury and organic pesticides, from thawing permafrost and brings new diseases to Arctic plants and animals, including subsistence food species, posing new health challenges, especially to rural communities.165, 166 Positive health effects of warming include a longer growing season for gardening and agriculture.5, 167

Many displaced people, engage in agriculture for subsistence and market production.