Sentences with phrase «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.

As 90 % of the population of forest edge communities are dependent on subsistence agriculture for their livelihoods, project activities have been aligned to the needs of local people.

It is unlikely that Shuford is calling for our «limited dollars» to go to helping people in Bangladesh adapt to sea level rise, or people in Nepal, Pakistan or Bolivia adapt to a word where glaciers that they depend on for subsistence agriculture have disappeared.

In these societies subsistence agriculture is primary.

The unpredictability of rainfall — when, how often and how much — makes subsistence agriculture a crapshoot for rural farmers in the Bolivian Amazon, and the randomness is expected to get only worse.

The smaller parcels also mean that farmers who engage in slash - and - burn subsistence agriculture now conduct much of the clearing, rather than industrial - scale outfits.

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.

Among the risks the continent faces are reductions in food security and agricultural productivity, particularly regarding subsistence agriculture, increased water stress and, as a result of these and the potential for increased exposure to disease and other health risks, increased risks to human health.»

In remote areas like the Greater Gola Landscape communities are disenfranchised and highly dependent on natural resources; subsistence agriculture accounts for 90 % of their livelihoods.

Other manifestations of the climate crisis are already retarding economic growth, harming subsistence agriculture and creating social unrest.

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

Financing subsistence agriculture, a market oriented agriculture, or agriculture as a source of leisure and recreational activities will obviously need different instruments and mechanisms, especially the use of the right mix of subsidies, tax incentives or inclusion in public budgets.

At root, however, this perspective is infused by activists» distrust of large corporations and their romanticization of subsistence agriculture rather than fact.

It was definitely not agrarian, but it was often chosen because it provided greater family stability than did the grinding work and unceasing uncertainty of subsistence agriculture.

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

While only a fraction of this cultivation currently occurs in the Amazon rainforest, production in neighboring areas like the cerrado grassland helps drive deforestation by displacing small farmers and cattle producers, who then clear rainforest land for subsistence agriculture and pasture.

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

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

Over the past few decades, however, subsistence agriculture and cattle ranching have continued to threaten the forests of Petén.

Africa will not be able to feed itself until it gets rid of subsistence agriculture: once it does that, it will feed itself easily.

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

Climate change poses a significant and unique challenge to Africa because so much of its economy depends on a climate - sensitive natural resource base like rain - fed, subsistence agriculture.

Now that Amazon deforestation is increasingly driven by industry, rather than subsistence agriculture, environmental advocacy groups can take advantage of corporate sensitivities to public image without the risk of undermining the livelihoods of millions of rural poor.

(10/23/2006) Monday the World Bank endorsed carbon trading as a way to save tropical rainforests which are increasingly threatened by logging, agricultural development, subsistence agriculture, and climate change itself.

As civilizations expand, they urbanize; when they fail, cities empty out and people return to subsistence agriculture or foraging.

(A University of Toronto / George Mason University Professor who thinks local food is «romanticization of subsistence agriculture».

Moreover, a large proportion of deforestation is not taking place for subsistence agriculture, but for cattle ranching, oil palm plantations, timber extraction and other commercial enterprises — many of which are supplying raw materials to the rich world.

Mostly it was considered a nuisance, as it could get in the way of subsistence agriculture, but it did have its uses.