Sentences with phrase «many of them subsistence farmers»

Some of the subsistence farmers can get jobs on the plantation.

«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.

If the chicken coops of subsistence farmers are hot spots of resistance gene transfer, he speculated that bacteria present in industrial farming operations — where chickens regularly receive antibiotics — would see even more pressure to share resistance genes.

A growing number of subsistence farmers as well as seed growers are now planting «climate - change - ready» rice in the rice bowl state of Uttar Pradesh and the speedy uptake is unprecedented.

The rest of the planet believes Wakanda to be a backward country of subsistence farmers, but it is the most advanced nation on Earth.

Soil and water conservation decision behavior of subsistence farmers in the Eastern Highlands of Ethiopia: a case study of the Hunde - Lafto area.

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.

As a result, 14 million people, many of them subsistence farmers, are in danger of going hungry, according to the United Nations» World Food Program.

It has brought all sorts of disasters including destruction of rainforest, draining of peat bogs, eviction of subsistence farmers from their land etc etc..

Not exact matches

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.

Usually the government cooperates in evicting subsistence farmers from the land in anticipation of earning foreign exchange through the export of the pineapples.

His parents were subsistence farmers who, like others, had been forced by their new masters to give some of their land to the state so while they were never hungry, they lived extremely simply.

Unconsciously, perhaps, the subsistence farmer, and even the peasant village, are assimilated to images of an unhistorical nature which serves civilization and industrialization but has no inherent reality.

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.

It is not surprising then that after an exhaustive study of the impact of the green revolution in five countries, Keith Griffin concluded that the transfer of capital - intensive, market - oriented technology not only had little positive effect on malnutrition, but actually increased the range of inequality, wiped out many subsistence farmers (usually women in most of the poorer countries), and plunged them further into destitution.

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.

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.

In fact, many multiple cropping systems, such as those developed by smallholders and subsistence farmers, even show higher yields in terms of total harvest per unit area.

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.

Gracer wants people to move away from getting their protein from traditional livestock such as cows, pigs, and chickens because raising livestock has a huge negative impact on the environment, regardless of whether the animals belong to subsistence farmers in developing countries or a Western industrial conglomerate.

But critics point out that subsistence farmers in developing countries often buy small amounts of improved varieties and breed them with local varieties to bolster yields.

Use of a range of wild species of fruit, vegetables, condiments and medicines, as well as wild animal - sourced foods, increase the likelihood that subsistence farmers with access to natural ecosystems meet their nutrition and health needs.

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.

Gary Toenniessen, associate director of agricultural sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York, which funded part of the work, says that the initiative will allow Mexican subsistence farmers to grow and sell potatoes carrying a gene owned by Monsanto, a US biotech - nology company.

Subsistence farmers in Mexico who grow potatoes could be the beneficiaries of a joint US - Mexican initiative to develop genetically engineered varieties resistant to potato virus X and potato virus Y.

Areas of «natural dung accumulation,» where animals hung out, would have provided «patches of superfertile ground that early crops would have colonized,» she points out, adding that «subsistence farmers are extremely observant of small differences in growth and productivity among their plots.»

And in a climate where intellectual property rights (IPR) are the subject of controversy and uncertainty, it promises to provide the IPR - laden golden rice technology free of charge to subsistence farmers.

We call them subsistence farmers and uneducated, but they are masters of self sufficiency and posses skills that few of of us educated in America can even understand.

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

Other complications arise from the girl's family, subsistence farmers who don't even know what a lawyer is and worry about the possibility of a ruinous feud with the dead man's family if they take legal action to defend their daughter.

So Apatosaurus protagonist Arlo (voiced by Raymond Ochoa) is born into a family of homesteading subsistence farmers, constantly worried that the crops will fail and leave them with insufficient food to survive the brutal winters in the shadow of the Clawtooth Mountains.

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.

I have yet to see the local state universities go out and try to teach land conservation and management to any of the local subsistence farmers.

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.

Environmental changes threaten the livelihoods of farmers, many of whom rely on subsistence agriculture to grow enough food to feed themselves and their families.

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.

She can't see beyond this form of existence, to consider the possibility of small farmers becoming big farmers, and of leaving subsistence existences — and possibly rural life — far behind them.

As many as half of all land transfers from subsistence farmers to agro-businesses are driven by biofuels.

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.

Suppose that we consider the fates of two people, a coal miner from a mid-latitude place such as Poland or Pennsylvania, and a subsistence farmer from a low - latitude place such as the Sahel.

(https://www.24hoursofreality.org/) In Ghana, women farmers produce some 70 percent of subsistence crops, giving many a ground - level perspective on the impacts of climate change.

Your average African or Southeast Asian subsistence farmer would ride out this kind of transient tech disaster easily, assuming they haven't already watched their soil blow away or be poisoned by relentless anthropogenic global warming.

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.»

Her name is Máxima Acuña and she is a 47 - year - old grandmother and subsistence farmer from the Andean highlands of northern Peru.

Poverty and hunger have driven many subsistence farmers to poaching, one of the few alternatives — albeit a dangerous one — available.

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).