Sentences with phrase «of subsistence farmers»

Profit, not biofuel, is the motive for «destruction of rainforest, draining of peat bogs, eviction of subsistence farmers from their land».

It has brought all sorts of disasters including destruction of rainforest, draining of peat bogs, eviction of subsistence farmers from their land etc etc» are simple, glib and wrong.

«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.

The blight has been known to sicken tens of thousands of subsistence farmers in developing nations.

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

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.

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.

He directs the Environmental Movement of Olancho (MAO), a coalition of subsistence farmers and community and religious leaders who are defending their lands against uncontrolled commercial logging.

Obviously, this is a large amount of a subsistence farmer's income, but the amount of wages earned during the time lost to illness is probably comparable.

«It's thrilling that the judges chose to give the first Science in Action prize to Sakhiwe Shongwe and Bonkhe Mahlalela, whose entry stated that they believe the lives of subsistence farmers «can change for the better through science.»

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

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