Sentence examples for farm livelihood from inspiring English sources

The variability in soil qualities within farms must be considered when designing management strategies, and their feasibility analysed by integrating results at the farm livelihood scale.

"There is growing evidence that these [agro-ecological] systems keep carbon in the ground, support biodiversity, rebuild soil fertility and sustain yields over time, providing a basis for secure farm livelihoods," says the report.

We find that storage capacity development can lead to a higher valued portfolio of irrigation production systems as well as more sustained and higher valued farm livelihoods.

A repeat of this scenario not only threatens consumer pocketbooks and farm livelihoods, but could be a serious setback to an already slow economic recovery.

These ideas are the result of working for the past five years with 3,200 Haitian smallholder farmers (and with support from the Clinton Foundation and Timberland) who are pioneering a new market-based approach, using trees as bio -currency to pay for doubling food production while significantly improving farm livelihoods and communities.

The Harbeses were among the first to replace their dwindling potato farming livelihood with not just fresh produce but the now ubiquitous, and potentially more profitable, attractions like corn mazes, hayrides and pick-your-own pumpkins, geared for young children.

Only on-farm livelihood strategies practised by few households, and majority of them use on-farm combined with off-farm and non-farm livelihood strategies.

The other 21 (15.8%) households employed a combination of on-farm and non-farm livelihood strategies.

Strategies included in on-farm livelihood categories were crop production and livestock production.

From the total sample households, only 14 (10.5%) have practised off-farm livelihood strategies only.

In addition, 16 (12%) of households depend on both on-farm and off-farm livelihood strategies.