Sentences with phrase «on subsistence agriculture»

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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

Africa is particularly susceptible since more than 90 % of our economy depends on a climate - sensitive natural resource base like rain - fed, subsistence agriculture.

Haiti has traditionally had different styles of pet keeping, forms of subsistence agriculture involving animals, and a heavy reliance on horses and donkeys as beasts of burden.

They were a migratory, seafaring people, surviving mainly on fishing and subsistence agriculture.

Over the past 15 - 30 years, depending on the country, large - scale commodity production for urban and international markets has replaced subsistence agriculture as the biggest driver of tropical deforestation worldwide.

This analytical report provides an overview of what climate change will mean to subsistence and smallholder farmers in Lesotho, and how the capacity for climate change adaptation in agriculture can be strengthened, focusing on selected areas of crops, livestock and forest - based livelihood systems, to stabilize and improve yields.

The scope of this chapter, with a focus on food crops, pastures and livestock, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry (commercial forests), aquaculture and fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculturalists and artisanal fishers, is to: examine current climate sensitivities / vulnerabilities; consider future trends in climate, global and regional food security, forestry and fisheries production; review key future impacts of climate change in food crops pasture and livestock production, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry, fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculture; assess the effectiveness of adaptation in offsetting damages and identify adaptation options, including planned adaptation to climate change; examine the social and economic costs of climate change in those sectors; and, explore the implications of responding to climate change for sustainable development.

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).

In South Asia, distress migration owing to climate events and particularly droughts is high, as over three - quarters of the population is dependent on agriculture, out of which more than half are subsistence farmers depending on rains for irrigation.