Sentences with phrase «on subsistence farms»

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

It survives on tourism, fishing, and subsistence farming, and like its two sisters has a Creole population.

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

Hunter - gatherer diets like those eaten by these northern groups and other traditional diets based on nomadic herding or subsistence farming are among the older approaches to human eating.

Regenerative practices like those used on the farms and ranches I visited show that we can readily improve soil fertility on both large farms in the U.S. and on small subsistence farms in the tropics.

Severe droughts and unpredictable rainfalls are more frequent than ever, with dramatic impacts on the local communities who rely on farming and cattle for their subsistence.

A revelatory, muscular debut from first - time British director Francis Lee, God's Own Country took us into a tough, Lawrentian rural world, where the last thing we expected would be a burgeoning romance between moody, «mardy arse» Johnny Saxby (Josh O'Connor) and removed Romanian worker Gheorghe (Alec Secareanu), who comes to help out on Johnny's almost scratch - subsistence family farm.

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.

Africa is a good case study on this - there is a direct correlation between for - market farming and environmental problems, while more traditional farming methods (subsistence farming, which would be better described as «needs plus») have little impact (and in some cases can be shown to be beneficial to the environment).

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).

Acuña, a grandmother, lives in the remote northern Peruvian highlands on an off - grid subsistence farm, which she and her husband purchased in 1994.