Sentences with phrase «many subsistence farmers»

The storm flooded fields and destroyed crops in places like Haiti and Cuba, where many people are subsistence farmers.

I don't just mean subsistence farmers.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Poor subsistence farmers were driven into the landless labor market.

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.

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.

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.

In Tanzania more frequent droughts and changing rainfall patterns are forcing subsistence farmers to adapt

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.

«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.

The winners are Sakhiwe Shongwe and Bonkhe Mahlalela, both 14, and their winning project explores an affordable way to provide hydroponics to poor subsistence farmers, enabling them to grow their crops and vegetables in very large quantities and within limited space without using soil.

The songs were selected pseudo-randomly from 86 predominantly small - scale societies, including hunter - gatherers, pastoralists, and subsistence farmers.

Subsistence farmers or export agribusinesses?

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.»

Light - fingered chimpanzees are changing the way subsistence farmers make a living in Africa by causing them to grow different crops and spend more time guarding their goods.

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.

Subsistence farmers were forced off their land to create vast plantations and mills.

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.

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.

Subsistence farmers are particularly impacted.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Even subsistence farmers in, say, equatorial Africa are depending these days on metals and fabrics that they can not source from outside the industrial economy, and which they would be hard put to replace successfully.

This system will provide the commercial and social infrastructure to support rural subsistence farmers worldwide.

Kevin: Even subsistence farmers in, say, equatorial Africa are depending these days on metals and fabrics that they can not source from outside the industrial economy, and which they would be hard put to replace successfully.

Setting up Green Planet Rural Agricultural Industry Centres — GPRAIC — these are the processing and social support services that form hubs around rural communities enabling subsistence farmers to compete in the world market places and support their families and their own communities

To insist that growers in Nepal only grow OP corn is to insist that they remain poor, subsistence farmers.