Sentences with phrase «migrant farmers»

Small scale agricultural farming was first initiated by indigenous communities living on Turkey's Anatolian plateau, and not introduced by migrant farmers as previously thought, according to new research by the University of Liverpool.

Prof Peres said: «It is known that migrant farmers worldwide catalyse the expansion of tropical deforestation frontiers.

In itself this is likely to be less damaging than clear - felling but, says the IUCN, «the logging roads attract migrant farmers who frequently turn the forest degradation started by the logging into complete deforestation».

We also compared fire incidence and deforestation rates before and after the official occupation of settlements by migrant farmers, mostly from southern Brazil.

The mother's worried look, dirty clothes and the way her children hold on to her while looking away from the camera became the symbol of migrant farmers» plight after the stock crash in 1929 and was heavily featured on newspapers and magazine covers around the country.

Professor Baird said: «Confounding the expectations of some archaeologists that the migrant farmer brought farming to central Anatolia, our evidence shows that the site of Boncuklu was occupied by long present, local Anatolian communities who mostly hunted and gathered a wide range of wetland animals and plants, but adopted farming from areas to the south and east through exchange.

The study demonstrates that Neolithic Iberians show genetic differences to the migrant farmers that settled in Central and Northern Europe.