Sentences with phrase «subsistence farmers who»

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

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.

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.

His parents were subsistence farmers who, like others, had been forced by their new masters to give some of their land to the state so while they were never hungry, they lived extremely simply.

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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.

Subsistence farmers in Mexico who grow potatoes could be the beneficiaries of a joint US - Mexican initiative to develop genetically engineered varieties resistant to potato virus X and potato virus Y.

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.

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.

«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.