je.st
news
Tag: subsistence
Could a plastic punch help subsistence farmers?
2016-05-10 01:34:36| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Could a plastic gadget make farmers richer?
Tags: plastic
farmers
punch
subsistence
Ukraine Subsistence Farmers Struggling with Conflict Impact
2015-12-08 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UKRAINE - The results of a household survey released by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) paint a bleak picture for small-scale, family-run farms in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
Tags: impact
conflict
ukraine
farmers
Conventional satellite imagery may underestimate forest clearing for subsistence agriculture
2013-12-09 19:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Analysis of forest cover using medium-scale satellite imagery may miss deforestation for small-scale subsistence agriculture, finds a study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. The study, which involved researchers from the University of Maryland, the State University of New York and Woods Hole Research Center, is based on change in forest cover in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which accounts for the bulk of the world's second largest tropical rainforest. The researchers...
Tags: forest
agriculture
satellite
conventional
Romanian farmers choose subsistence over shale gas
2013-10-27 10:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The small hilly town of Pungesti in eastern Romania could be sitting on vast reserves of shale gas and U.S. energy major Chevron wants to find it. But the people of Pungesti want nothing to do with it. Though most of them live off subsistence farming, social aid and cash from relatives working abroad, they would rather stay poor than run what they say is the risk of ruining their environment. Villagers have set up camp outside the empty lot where Chevron aims to install its first exploratory...
Tags: choose
gas
farmers
romanian
Sites : [1]