Sentences with phrase «on subsistence»

Filing of a lien has no effect on the subsistence of a statutory trust.

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.

Most MSMEs focus on subsistence, with high informality rates, low returns and low investment volumes.

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.

If scientists are able to utilize the methods and approaches described above appropriately, there is likely to be better representation of changes in climate, shifts in seasonality, and any resulting influence on subsistence fish and game species or existing infrastructure.

Nelson, J. L., E. S. Zavaleta, and F. S. Chapin, III, 2008: Boreal fire effects on subsistence resources in Alaska and adjacent Canada.

Total environment of change: Impacts of climate change and social transitions on subsistence fisheries in northwest Alaska

It is the poor communities who rely on subsistence agriculture who suffer the most.

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

However, the most vulnerable, including those dependent on subsistence lifestyles, especially Alaska Natives and low - income populations, will confront shortages of key foods.

«Increasing oil development in the Western Arctic will contribute to climate change, threaten special areas, and put further pressure on subsistence users,» said Earthjustice attorney Rebecca Noblin.

The people who will suffer the most from climate change are the very poor who live on subsistence agriculture and who are completely vulnerable to these huge shifts in the climate.

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.

They also may sometimes feed on subsistence scavenged or stolen from campsites and picnics, as well as garbage dumps.

Some Alaska Native peoples continue by tradition to hunt bowhead and beluga whales on a subsistence level, with low annual bowhead total quotas set by the International Whaling Commission in conjunction with individual village limits set by the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission.

During the early days, this ex-penal colony outpost quickly became a hippie haven where local villagers survived on a subsistence of fishing and income from selling coconuts to the mainland.

The reason is that the lower quintiles spend more of their income on subsistence and have a lower percentage of disposable income for use in wealth building.

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.

My final thought on Subsistence is one of wonder - as in, I wonder why anybody would buy these Metal Gear Solid games the moment they arrive on storeshelves if they know a better version will be along shortly after which addresses all of the problems inherent in the original?

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.

the survivors are all drones, and figuratively and literally directionless without their dead leadership; they're just about able to take care of themselves on a subsistence level, and certain pose no threat of, saying, taking over Planet Earth.

(You need prawn DNA to do that, and the aliens themselves don't seem too interested in shooting anything up: the survivors are all drones, and figuratively and literally directionless without their dead leadership; they're just about able to take care of themselves on a subsistence level, and certainly pose no threat of, saying, taking over Planet Earth.)

The Gabayan watershed incorporates a heavily degraded, multi-use landscape covering over 5000 hectares hosting about 60,000 people whose livelihoods depend on subsistence 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.

She will also eat only organic food because she is solely reliant on subsistence farming to support her and her family's nutritional needs.

A large majority of the educated commons are depending on the subsistence niches of supra - local economy of commercial interests.

The rest of the population, about half of the total, are not customers except for the most simple and basic products and probably will continue on a subsistence basis.

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.

Not exact matches

and «Will physical changes in the Arctic affect ecosystems that commercial and subsistence fisheries depend on?»

On a 2009 trip to see subsistence coffee growers in that country, Schultz met a woman named Mukamwiza Immaculate and asked what she most dreamed of having.

Dear friend that was beautiful wise full of light but will have to read it more to see the inner meanings of it... We look vertically as did Abraham looking for the Creator... While the Creator in the Quran told us that our means of subsistence and what we await are in heavens... But as well told us that if we disbelieve on what the Holy Books and the Quran came with we ought to look Horizontally as in Archeology for the nations that been mentioned and how the died for their sins and disbelief to the message or for humiliating the messengers...

At a time when the Patriarchate paid Arab priests a subsistence salary which forced them to rely on fees from baptisms, weddings and funerals to feed their families, it was charged that monies sent from Imperial Russia and other Orthodox countries for the welfare of the Arab Orthodox went directly into the pockets of the bishops and the patriarch.

When he retiress he has no home and no equity to use to buy one, too many retired pastors live on less than subsistence levels.

We will say that particles are orders in the holomovement, which have the character of subsistence, a certain repetitiveness, stability, and so on.

The less we depend on Nature for our subsistence, the less harm we do to her.»

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.

McCabe had already said in an earlier talk on «The Immortality of the Soul» that «the subsistence of the soul has no more content» for Aquinas than that «a man has an operation by his soul which is not an operation of the body».

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

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.

It is the mark set on those, who, not looking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on casualties and caprice of customers.

In a society based on kinship, especially under circumstances of severe inter-tribal rivalry for the means of subsistence, one finds high ideals of just conduct within the group combined with the absence of the sense of moral obligation beyond the group.

How can we face the quest of freedom in God's service when the quest propels us into an existence that is a vacuum, devoid of all the familiar symbols of security, ground to walk on, means of subsistence, and some reasonable assurance of continuity?

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.

There was a long - established system of rights and proprietorship; it was a society which was a large step on from subsistence economy, through trade, banking and regular communications, This stability needed to be called provisional because of the bitter resentment of property and monopoly rights felt from time to time by apprentices, journeymen, the generally less privileged, and by the peasants throughout the countryside.

Subsistence focuses our attention not on the fact that the person underlies the other categories of being, like quantitative and qualitative being, but rather on the fact that the person is an independent kind of being.

But as human population expands and subsistence farming gives way to mechanized agriculture, food production has become reliant on fossil fuel and fertilizers to increase yield from rapidly shrinking farmland.

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.

These land degradation impacts can also jeopardize food security, because smallholder farmers combine growing tea and subsistence crops on their plots.

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.

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.