Sentences with phrase «of subsistence farming»

Going further back, you can also use accounts of where cold - sensitive crops were grown (e.g., vineyards in medieval England), and of subsistence farms being established and then failing in marginal areas, such as the south of Greenland.

Not exact matches

No matter how appealing the idea of urban agriculture may seem to outsiders, a laid - off Detroit autoworker probably has little interest in a return to subsistence farming.

Therefore, one talent equated to 20 years of revenue from subsistence farming.

And if we compare the condition of the poor in urban slums with that of the poor on subsistence farms, my own judgment is that there is more loss than gain.

Viewing Jesus as a country peasant who combined marginal farming with village carpentry, Legrand suggests that Jesus» work must have been in building houses which involved very little wood work since house construction those days was little dependent on wood.24 Therefore, additional farm work was inevitable for the sake of subsistence.

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.

Since land is the scarcest resource in the world and the most essential element in any effort to restore subsistence farming, the combination of political and environmental issues attending certain types of development raises serious ethical questions.

In those cases, land reform will take the direction of consolidating holdings to make them large enough to be viable subsistence farms.

More than 85 per cent of these poverty victims are rural residents, whose sole hope lies in the development of widespread subsistence farming.

As land once used for subsistence farming is transferred to plantations growing food for export, the GNP is likely to rise, but the ability of ordinary people to feed themselves declines.

Since then, as in the United States, agribusiness has replaced subsistence farming and there have been vast movements of population to cities often unable to provide people with the minimum facilities of urban life.

Development of national economies typically involved shifts from subsistence farming to «more efficient» methods that released labor from the rural sector to the urban one.

In contrast, environmentalists who call for the developing world to return to a non-existent organic arcadia are forgetting the reality of farming in a subsistence economy.

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.

Subsistence farming was common on small parcels of land in the north and south valleys and extra fruit and vegetables were peddled to the nearby pueblos.

Non-certified organic agriculture in developing countries is practised by millions of indigenous people, peasants and small family farms involved in subsistence and local market - oriented production.

Possessed economy and quality of life above subsistence - level farming, and did not depend on unusually rich natural resources.

Appalachia's economy is a predominantly combination of near subsistence farming, coal mining, and small factories.

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.

Similarly, after 6,000 years of success in a Neolithic subsistence farming culture, we had once again produced more people than we could support, so we were driven to create cities and organize irrigated agriculture.

These areas are also among the poorest in the region, with much of the population dependent on subsistence farming that requires long hours of hard labor out in the open and unprotected from the sun.

Nevertheless, diesel cooking remains significantly more lucrative than subsistence farming and fishing, and most assume these risks to lift their families out of abject poverty.

The calculation model the authors used includes economic benefits for producers and consumers as well as the benefits of reduced malnutrition among subsistence farm - households often not explicitly considered in previous studies.

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.

Elite athletes and subsistence farming communities have a good relationship with corn since they're burning through massive amounts of calories (aerobically) and they want to eat very nutrient - packed foods that are easy to digest.

It is not surprising to learn that Coogler based his vision of Wakanda on what he observed during a research trip to South Africa, Kenya and, most notably, Lesotho, a land - locked constitutional monarchy headed by King Letsie III, where 80 percent of the population relies on subsistence farming and the majority lives in extreme poverty, despite lucrative diamond reserves.

Today, residents of these remote towns often scrape by on subsistence farming and fishing, and children in the area can find themselves several hours — or days — boat ride from the nearest town with a schoolhouse.

In a region where subsistence farming has been both the status quo and the limit of the economic horizon for generations, everyone has a different prediction.

The 1800s saw the arrival of colonists who managed to eke out subsistence livings through a combination of farming, ranching fishing and mining.

James Castle was deaf artist who lived much of his life on subsistence farms in rural Idaho and neither pursued nor received recognition for his remarkable art during his lifetime.

Walker Evans (American, 1903 - 1975) Four Views of the Arthurdale Subsistence Homestead Project, Farm Security Administration, Reedsville, West Virginia, June 1935.

This loss is exacerbated by the intensifying Climate Destabilization (reportedly reflecting the start of the «Albedo Loss» feedback due to the decline of Arctic sea - ice and ice caps) which is suppressing subsistence farm yields and some commercial farm yields on a random basis by the impacts of extreme droughts, storms, floods, and heat and cold waves.

The situation in Rwanda in the»90s, for example, didn't just happen because of some irrational ethnic or political agenda, it happened at least in part because too many people had too little land to support themselves, yet everyone depended on small - scale farming (average farm size on the order of a few acres) for subsistence.

Subsistence farming and fishing isn't very attractive in the face of oil money, what can they do to preserve their way of life?

Is already practiced in limited form and to varying degree and varying degrees of being recognized as such as «subsistence» farming by more than half the population already.

Economies pass through a series of stages as they progress from subsistence farming to technologically sophisticated.

This doesn't reflect that most of the world is subsistence agriculture / fishing / wood chopping for personal consumption (I grew up on a farm and we did a lot of personal consumption which didn't make it into the GDP).

There are billions of people living in subsistence farming communities, and displaced because of human caused wars and subsequent famines.

These regions are home to 1.5 bn people, one fifth of the world's population, many of whom survive on subsistence farming: they are among the world's poorest.

These products allow the community to earn income while lessening their dependance on subsistence farming and without converting land for agricultural uses like palm oil and cattle, which are two major drivers of deforestation in Guatemala.

It occurs in a multitude of forms (mixed farms or specialized livestock keepers; species, herd size, free roaming or confined, husbandry practices), scales and degree of market orientation (subsistence, mixed subsistence / commercial, small commercial, large commercial) and locations (back yards, roof tops, peri-urban areas, urban public vacant spaces) each with its own problems and opportunities.

The Solomon Islands is a lesser - developed nation, and more than 75 percent of its labor force is engaged in subsistence farming and fishing.