Sentences with phrase «for subsistence farmers»

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.

Can you provide a good solid cost benefit analysis for the subsistence farmer (rice, terraced) in Nepal?

Mike asks — «Can you provide a good solid cost benefit analysis for the subsistence farmer (rice, terraced) in Nepal?»

Not exact matches

A subsistence farmer earned an estimated 500 drachmas per year for his crop.

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

For example, just as those preoccupied with «justice» have paid little attention to the subsistence farmer, so also they have paid little attention to the world's most urgent energy crisis — the shortage of firewood.

Employment is understood as working for wages, and since subsistence farmers do not receive wages they are not considered among the employed.

This need calls for a reorientation of research in major universities and institutes toward the social and technical problems of assistance to small subsistence farmers.

Subsistence farmers depend on the soil to produce food for their families; they know the seasons and when rains will come to water their crops and allow seeds to send out roots.

Vegetable production intensification will see increased plant pest and disease pressure and significant on - farm losses for the majority of subsistence and small - holder cooperative farmers if the goal to meet WTO / SPS requirements for exports to the ASEAN economic community and international markets is to be met.

The world's exploding population has made it profitable for big business to raze forests so it can plant mega crops like soy and oil palm; meanwhile, on a much, much smaller scale, subsistence farmers often clear trees so they can plant crops to feed their families and bring in small amounts of cash.

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.

«In this high mountain desert, water is a critically precious resource and the use of metal - polluted waters for irrigation may have substantial detrimental impacts on the lives of subsistence farmers,» said Bill Strosnider, researcher on the project.

Now, geneticists have developed a potential boon for the health of African subsistence farmers who rely on the crop: transgenic plants with roots practically free of cyanide - forming chemicals.

The current production of antivenom is very costly and treatment for snakebites can be completely unaffordable to victims who, particularly in the low and middle - income countries, are often disadvantaged subsistence farmers and their families.

For many cacao farmers in developing nations, tripling their yields would mean the difference between a subsistence - level income of $ 1 a day and a manageable $ 3 a day.

For elite athletes and subsistence farmers, this isn't too much of a problem.

When his father was young, the boy says, he expected to live his life as a subsistence farmer, like his family had for generations.

She worked in Malawi for 6 years in varying capacities, focusing on food security for rural, subsistence farmers.

The Green Belt Movement began with the premise that degraded environment and poverty create a downward spiral for rural subsistence farmers, and in particular rural women.

Access to modern veterinary care matched by an understanding of contemporary animal health and husbandry protocols can help create a pathway for farmers in rural communities of developing countries to make their way from subsistence to productivity and profitability.

Latterly, it became a haven for fishermen and subsistence farmers.

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.

Máxima Acuña, Peru: A subsistence farmer in Peru's northern highlands, Máxima Acuña stood up for her right to peacefully live off her own land, a property sought by Newmont and Buenaventura Mining to develop the Conga gold and copper mine.

However, similar options are not necessarily available in hotter, drier countries, such as Chad, where sorghum is a staple food for thousands of subsistence farmers.

It is claimed these new plantations can be created across «marginal» and «degraded» land in «which the occupants are not engaged in economic activity», meaning land used by subsistence farmers, pastoralists, hunters and gatherers and others not producing commodities for the mass market.

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.

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.

Those crises could mean lost income for American commercial farmers, as well as food shortages for poorer subsistence farmers, who rely on their crops to feed themselves and their families, Lesk said.

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.

«REDD is a good initiative, but it's not all - inclusive,» says COMESA Secretary General Sindiso Ngwenya, who derided a REDD - only approach as «political, social, economic apartheid» that punished subsistence farmers even as the Clean Development Mechanism pays for new power plants in China and India.

Clean energy and health care for the world's poor, initiatives to aid subsistence farmers and combat climate change, and so on and so forth.

It now broadcasts in Igbo, the local language, for ten hours a day to 250,000 listeners, mostly subsistence farmers.

I would say that making the food, fuel and energy more expensive, that the subsistence farmer in Nepal uses, in exchange for slowing the rate of growth of global warming by.01 C per century (just an example) and slowing the Nepal government from slowly providing electricity to their citizens would not be good idea (on a cost benefit analysis).

Oats, potatoes and animal husbandry occasionally brought profits to some farmers, but most grew these crops for subsistence.