Sentences with phrase «subsistence farmers»

The blight has been known to sicken tens of thousands of subsistence farmers in developing nations.

Soil and water conservation decision behavior of subsistence farmers in the Eastern Highlands of Ethiopia: a case study of the Hunde - Lafto area.

Profit, not biofuel, is the motive for «destruction of rainforest, draining of peat bogs, eviction of subsistence farmers from their land».

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.

An online game called 3rd World Farmer, which calls itself «a simulation to make you think,» is a miniature SimCity - like experience that lets players try their hand as subsistence farmers struggling year to year.

It is feasible to generate reference genomes (genetic sequences that can be used to study and compare animals» genetic traits) for Bubalus bubalis — the Asian water buffalo — and other farm animals raised by subsistence farmers in the regions, such as goats and hair sheep.

The important summer paddy crop was completely crushed, leaving subsistence farmers with nothing to show for their efforts.

Now, geneticists have developed a potential boon for the health of African subsistence farmers who rely on the crop: transgenic plants with roots practically free of cyanide - forming chemicals.

Those crises could mean lost income for American commercial farmers, as well as food shortages for poorer subsistence farmers, who rely on their crops to feed themselves and their families, Lesk said.

Even subsistence farmers in, say, equatorial Africa are depending these days on metals and fabrics that they can not source from outside the industrial economy, and which they would be hard put to replace successfully.

Poverty and hunger have driven many subsistence farmers to poaching, one of the few alternatives — albeit a dangerous one — available.

Employment is understood as working for wages, and since subsistence farmers do not receive wages they are not considered among the employed.

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.

But this is not an argument that anyone who eats in America should be making to African subsistence farmers.

This system will provide the commercial and social infrastructure to support rural subsistence farmers worldwide.

in rural areas, subsistence farmers struggle to find a place to sow their seeds.

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.

I don't just mean subsistence farmers.

«But when we are in a drought situation like we are in now, the government can only give out so much money out to help subsistence farmers and commercial farmers.

Usually the government cooperates in evicting subsistence farmers from the land in anticipation of earning foreign exchange through the export of the pineapples.

This need calls for a reorientation of research in major universities and institutes toward the social and technical problems of assistance to small subsistence farmers.

Some of the parents, illiterate subsistence farmers, stood up and expressed their astonishment at the wonderful things these young people had learned.

In Tanzania more frequent droughts and changing rainfall patterns are forcing subsistence farmers to adapt

Frustrated, Sheldrake resigned his Cambridge fellowship and worked for six years at an international agricultural institute at Hyderabad in southern India, improving legume crop yields for Indian subsistence farmers.

The current production of antivenom is very costly and treatment for snakebites can be completely unaffordable to victims who, particularly in the low and middle - income countries, are often disadvantaged subsistence farmers and their families.

Compare the impact of our lifestyles in terms of diet, cash crops, transport, waste, housing plus water and mineral uses with (say) a Malawian subsistence farmer, and we don't look too good.

Gary Toenniessen, associate director of agricultural sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York, which funded part of the work, says that the initiative will allow Mexican subsistence farmers to grow and sell potatoes carrying a gene owned by Monsanto, a US biotech - nology company.

Most early complex societies developed in regions where the climatic parameters faced by ancient subsistence farmers were varied, but not especially diverse.

Each year, lowland floods in South Asia destroy 4 million tons of rice, causing chronic food insecurity for subsistence farmers across the region.

Light - fingered chimpanzees are changing the way subsistence farmers make a living in Africa by causing them to grow different crops and spend more time guarding their goods.

So Apatosaurus protagonist Arlo (voiced by Raymond Ochoa) is born into a family of homesteading subsistence farmers, constantly worried that the crops will fail and leave them with insufficient food to survive the brutal winters in the shadow of the Clawtooth Mountains.

Setting up Green Planet Rural Agricultural Industry Centres — GPRAIC — these are the processing and social support services that form hubs around rural communities enabling subsistence farmers to compete in the world market places and support their families and their own communities

The village also had another asset: its residents are mainly subsistence farmers who are very handy and could operate the system on their own.

I have yet to see the local state universities go out and try to teach land conservation and management to any of the local subsistence farmers.

It's an unlikely match between a 47 - year - old Peruvian subsistence farmer and a giant American mining corporation, and yet the former is winning the battle.

Should we become subsistence farmers?

He points to subsistence farmers losing their current food source and their future livelihood to unprecedented extreme weather — the kind of extreme weather that scientists link to climate change.

«REDD is a good initiative, but it's not all - inclusive,» says COMESA Secretary General Sindiso Ngwenya, who derided a REDD - only approach as «political, social, economic apartheid» that punished subsistence farmers even as the Clean Development Mechanism pays for new power plants in China and India.

Your average African or Southeast Asian subsistence farmer would ride out this kind of transient tech disaster easily, assuming they haven't already watched their soil blow away or be poisoned by relentless anthropogenic global warming.

Clean energy and health care for the world's poor, initiatives to aid subsistence farmers and combat climate change, and so on and so forth.

It now broadcasts in Igbo, the local language, for ten hours a day to 250,000 listeners, mostly subsistence farmers.

It has brought all sorts of disasters including destruction of rainforest, draining of peat bogs, eviction of subsistence farmers from their land etc etc» are simple, glib and wrong.

Several different Mayan tribes continue living their traditional lives as subsistence farmers / gatherers in Belizean jungles, along rivers and at coastal areas.

Poor subsistence farmers were driven into the landless labor market.

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.

Only debts by subsistence farmers were canceled so that they would not be subjected to bondage to the creditors, and so they would not forfeit their lands to monopolists who wanted to acquire the land and would essentially disenfranchise the population.

Use of a range of wild species of fruit, vegetables, condiments and medicines, as well as wild animal - sourced foods, increase the likelihood that subsistence farmers with access to natural ecosystems meet their nutrition and health needs.

Other complications arise from the girl's family, subsistence farmers who don't even know what a lawyer is and worry about the possibility of a ruinous feud with the dead man's family if they take legal action to defend their daughter.

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.

The Green Belt Movement began with the premise that degraded environment and poverty create a downward spiral for rural subsistence farmers, and in particular rural women.