Sentences with phrase «subsistence way»

REDOIL is standing in solidarity with Inupiat that want to protect their ancestral subsistence way of life.

With environmental and cultural forces threatening their subsistence way of life, Ray holds onto the hope that his grandsons will one day pass on the traditional knowledge to their children.

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.

Not exact matches

Canada can't have it both ways — they can't complain about the cost of First Nation poverty and continually criminalize all Indigenous means of subsistence.

Thomas's reply is that something can be a certain something in two ways: either as a complete subsistent individual of a species (as Socrates is of the species man), or in a more generic sense that does not exclude parts, incomplete as they may be, from subsistence.

I can also explain the subsistence of matter in a similar way, by saying that the holomovement provides for the subsistence of matter.

In fact, wages were probably often below subsistence measured in this way.

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.

The winners are Sakhiwe Shongwe and Bonkhe Mahlalela, both 14, and their winning project explores an affordable way to provide hydroponics to poor subsistence farmers, enabling them to grow their crops and vegetables in very large quantities and within limited space without using soil.

Many human communities want answers about the current status and future of Arctic marine mammals, including scientists who dedicate their lives to study them and indigenous people whose traditional ways of subsistence are intertwined with the fate of species such as ice seals, narwhals, walruses and polar bears.

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.

Subsistence is a high - quality game all the way.

This is kind of a minor miracle, given the well - publicized woes of the critical world, and even though I'm way below the poverty line and living more - or-less subsistence level, I'm perfectly happy to have made it so far.

For more than a decade, she and members of her extended family lived way, way off the grid in the forests of Canada, combining a groovy, free - love lifestyle with sometimes bleak subsistence living.

Access to modern veterinary care matched by an understanding of contemporary animal health and husbandry protocols can help create a pathway for farmers in rural communities of developing countries to make their way from subsistence to productivity and profitability.

Observe the way subsistence - style fishing villages in low - lying areas build homes on stilts.

re Dan H. 541 — that's what I meant by human population dynamics being «fortunately complex» — that it helps to control our population growth by being nice to each other (in specific ways), as opposed to how we would control deer or lady bugs (or aphids) or gypsy moths, etc. (would that change if deer reached a stage part - way between subsistence and affluence?

Subsistence farming and fishing isn't very attractive in the face of oil money, what can they do to preserve their way of life?

Asserting that anthropogenic climate change poses an existential threat to our nations, our cultures and to our way of life, and thereby undermines the internationally protected human rights of our people — including the right to sustainable development, right to life, the right to self - determination and the right of a people not to be deprived of its own means of subsistence, as well as principles of international law that oblige all states to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other states or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction;

``... To mitigate its effect on coastal communities, Interior communities; how it deals with water, subsistence and traditional ways of life.»

Though the bulk of humanity is far richer and healthier than at any time in history, there are places on earth where the way people live is little different from the subsistence levels of the past.

When you are concerned with the flora and fauna of a region, rather than with its people, it's no wonder that you can write people off as the problem afflicting «paradise» once they develop beyond a way of life capable of producing more than subsistence.

Finally, Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling must be managed in a way that balances the needs of indigenous people with the responsibility to ensure that the hunts are sustainable, humane and accountable to the IWC.

Your income puts you way to close to subsistence level at this point.