Sentence examples for forest farmers from inspiring English sources

The Tupians were tropical rain forest farmers, rivermen, and coastal navigators.

Most of the villages of the tropical forest farmers are not permanent; after some years they have to move because of soil exhaustion.

Rather than burn the forest, farmers run two powerful tractors in parallel with a thick chain between them that pushes over even the biggest trees in its path.

Working in six pilot provinces, the immediate beneficiaries will be forest farmers' cooperatives and individual small-scale forest farmers in 16 pilot villages, comprising about 6 000 households.

By forming producer groups and cooperatives, forest farmers can take collective action and enjoy economies of scale.

About 300 000 forest farmers will receive services and access to the new forest ownership and land-use rights.

The New Forest farmer, whose family has raised pigs in this Hampshire location for four generations, makes the comparison loosely.

The instructor, Steve Gabriel, is an ecologist, extension educator, and forest farmer living and working in the Finger Lakes Region of central New York.

The paper concludes with five general lessons: (1) forest peasants are highly resilient to land scarcity; (2) forests play an overlooked role in agricultural intensification; (3) the 'modal' forest farmer does not exist; (4) early land endowment is key to understanding farmer land use and poverty dynamics; and, (5) swidden forests are social landscapes.

The Aztecs couldn't grow it — they had the wrong climate — and, like others, depended on colonies of rain-forest farmers.

In the fields and forests, farmers still dig up rusted weapons that are the recognizable predecessors of the guns carried by the volunteers today.