Sentences with phrase «subsistence food»

Between October 2004 and May 2006, three storms accelerated the erosion and repeatedly «flooded the village water supply, caused raw sewage to be spread throughout the community, displaced residents from homes, destroyed subsistence food storage, and shut down essential utilities.»

12: Indigenous Peoples).91, 101 Warming also releases human - caused pollutants, such as poleward - transported mercury and organic pesticides, from thawing permafrost and brings new diseases to Arctic plants and animals, including subsistence food species, posing new health challenges, especially to rural communities.165, 166 Positive health effects of warming include a longer growing season for gardening and agriculture.5, 167

This is why it's such a great subsistence food in a lot of cultures but can not be a subsistence food in our house!

The cutters collect an agreed - upon wage, but it is so low that it compares with the subsistence food which slaves received to maintain their health.

Not exact matches

As land once used for subsistence farming is transferred to plantations growing food for export, the GNP is likely to rise, but the ability of ordinary people to feed themselves declines.

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 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.

These land degradation impacts can also jeopardize food security, because smallholder farmers combine growing tea and subsistence crops on their plots.

While archaeobotanists and archaeologists today have a much clearer picture of the range of foods used by ancient peoples of Mesoamerica in their daily subsistence and dietary practices, the information on the nature, extent, structure, and timing of chili pepper use or consumption in the archaeological record remains scant.

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

And it will recommend an end to the # 25 - a-day «subsistence allowance» - which allows MPs to claim for food and other items without a receipt - as well as cutbacks to claims for first class rail travel and travel within London.

Patricia Cochran, an Inupiat from Northwestern Alaska, is talking about the native foods of her childhood: «We pretty much had a subsistence way of life.

Many of these animals are fierce predators that sit atop the food web, but Laidre's team found that they are also important subsistence resources: Arctic people hunt nearly 80 % of the studied populations for food and other uses.

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.

Such an attitude derives from an inelasticity of mind which takes for its criterion a home - loving population living on highly durable soils and growing food for both subsistence and export.

«Rural communities in Alaska and other northern areas have a subsistence lifestyle, making them vulnerable to methylmercury contaminating their food supply,» Mutter said.

Our jobs, recreation, subsistence, and food depend on it.

Elite athletes and subsistence farming communities have a good relationship with corn since they're burning through massive amounts of calories (aerobically) and they want to eat very nutrient - packed foods that are easy to digest.

In 2011 barley seeds were recovered from pre-Hispanic grain silos at three archaeological sites on Gran Canaria: Guayadeque — Cuevas Muchas (henceforth Subsistence mosaics, forager - farmer interactions, and the transition to food production in eastern Africa

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.

She worked in Malawi for 6 years in varying capacities, focusing on food security for rural, subsistence farmers.

Some of the areas that I like are lifestyle, relationship, parenting, business / entrepreneurship, food - subsistence - homesteading topics, popular / trendy reference projects and women's issues.

Blue crab is considered to be a lower class food and it is mostly fished for subsistence.

While the previous two and a half million years of our existence had been shaped by sustainable subsistence, agriculture introduced the possibility of producing more food than we needed, letting us distribute the required amount to the members of the community and store the excess.

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.»

However, the most vulnerable, including those dependent on subsistence lifestyles, especially Alaska Natives and low - income populations, will confront shortages of key foods.

However, similar options are not necessarily available in hotter, drier countries, such as Chad, where sorghum is a staple food for thousands of subsistence farmers.

As a result, 14 million people, many of them subsistence farmers, are in danger of going hungry, according to the United Nations» World Food Program.

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.

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

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.

There is substantial new information that ocean acidification, rising ocean temperatures, declining sea ice, and other environmental changes are affecting the location and abundance of marine fish, including those that are commercially important, those used as food by other species, and those used for subsistence.16, 17,18,19,20,21 However, the relative importance of these potential causes of change is highly uncertain.

Acidity reduces the capacity of key plankton species and shelled animals to form and maintain shells and other hard parts, and therefore alters the food available to important fish species.136, 139,140 The rising acidity will have particularly strong societal effects on the Bering Sea on Alaska's west coast because of its high - productivity commercial and subsistence fisheries.17, 141

Ocean acidification, rising ocean temperatures, declining sea ice, and other environmental changes interact to affect the location and abundance of marine fish, including those that are commercially important, those used as food by other species, and those used for subsistence.16, 17,18,122,19,20,21 These changes have allowed some near - surface fish species such as salmon to expand their ranges northward along the Alaskan coast.124, 125,126 In addition, non-native species are invading Alaskan waters more rapidly, primarily through ships releasing ballast waters and bringing southerly species to Alaska.5, 127 These species introductions could affect marine ecosystems, including the feeding relationships of fish important to commercial and subsistence fisheries.

These climate - related effects are causing sudden shifts in local economies and food security across the world, including agriculture, subsistence farming and fishing.

Local food is Subsistence farming.

I would say that making the food, fuel and energy more expensive, that the subsistence farmer in Nepal uses, in exchange for slowing the rate of growth of global warming by.01 C per century (just an example) and slowing the Nepal government from slowly providing electricity to their citizens would not be good idea (on a cost benefit analysis).

These organizations focus on clients» most basic human needs: preserving housing, protecting subsistence income, obtaining access to health care, providing food and clothing for families and maintaining safety, independence, and dignity.

The reason or purpose underlying paragraph 12 [of the NRTA] was to secure to the Indians a supply of game and fish for their support and subsistence and clearly to permit hunting, trapping and fishing for food... In my view the distinction that Dickson J. drew in Moosehunter between hunting for «support and subsistence», and hunting for «sport or commercially» is far more consistent with the spirit of Treaty No. 8 and with the proposition that one should not assume that the legislature intended to abrogate or derogate from Treaty 8 hunting rights than the respondent's submission that in using the term «for food» the legislature intended to restrict Treaty 8 hunting rights to hunting for direct consumption of the product of the hunt.36

Managed food inspection mission for over $ 30 million worth of subsistence annually.

Directed a food inspection program for subsistence that supplied the 5th Fleet, the Army Central Command, Air Force, Coast Guard, and Marine units serving in the Middle East Area of Operation in support of the War on Terror.

• Combat Life Saver Course, Certified to assist in giving First Aid in real life situation — 2009 • AT Level 2 Officer's Course, Trained to apply base - level anti-terrorism measures and Force Protection at Joint Forward Operation Bases — 2009 • Food Defense, Qualified to prevent subsistence that has been intentionally tampered with, from entering the Army's food supply chain — 2009 • ServSafe, Qualified to maintain and teach the safe handling of food items in dining facilities, restaurants, grocery stores, and storage facilities — 2008 • Supervisor's Development Course, Trained and proficient in managing, supervising, and training military and civilian personnel in a mixed environment — 2005 • Advanced Safety Officers Course, Proficient in implementing and maintaining safety procedures for the military — Food Defense, Qualified to prevent subsistence that has been intentionally tampered with, from entering the Army's food supply chain — 2009 • ServSafe, Qualified to maintain and teach the safe handling of food items in dining facilities, restaurants, grocery stores, and storage facilities — 2008 • Supervisor's Development Course, Trained and proficient in managing, supervising, and training military and civilian personnel in a mixed environment — 2005 • Advanced Safety Officers Course, Proficient in implementing and maintaining safety procedures for the military — food supply chain — 2009 • ServSafe, Qualified to maintain and teach the safe handling of food items in dining facilities, restaurants, grocery stores, and storage facilities — 2008 • Supervisor's Development Course, Trained and proficient in managing, supervising, and training military and civilian personnel in a mixed environment — 2005 • Advanced Safety Officers Course, Proficient in implementing and maintaining safety procedures for the military — food items in dining facilities, restaurants, grocery stores, and storage facilities — 2008 • Supervisor's Development Course, Trained and proficient in managing, supervising, and training military and civilian personnel in a mixed environment — 2005 • Advanced Safety Officers Course, Proficient in implementing and maintaining safety procedures for the military — 1999

a disruption to food security, including subsistence hunting and gathering livelihoods and biodiversity loss, increase in the need for and the cost of food supply, storage and transportation, and an increase in food - borne diseases.

All centenarians reported low household income and food deprivation; their families were subsistence farmers with extremely limited resources.

A fundamental right under ICESCR is the right to an adequate standard of living (40) which in turn requires, as a minimum, that all people enjoy subsistence rights, i.e. adequate food, nutrition, clothing, housing and the necessary conditions of care.

A fundamental right under ICESCR is the right to an adequate standard of living5 which in turn requires, as a minimum, that all people enjoy subsistence rights, i.e. adequate food, nutrition, clothing, housing and the necessary conditions of care.

Thus, women participate actively both in domestic activities and food subsistence, such as the activities of economic subsistence, that guarantee family livelihood.