Sentence examples for subsistence communities from inspiring English sources

Most of the murders occur in remote regions of the Amazon – places like de Lima's home of Lábrea in Amazonas state, where loggers, ranchers and land-grabbers are seizing property from smallholders, subsistence communities and indigenous tribes.

Ríos's army considered the Ixils, and many Maya, an "internal enemy," and while they couldn't easily catch the guerrillas they could catch the Ixils, who lived in vulnerable conditions amid corn-and-bean fields in small subsistence communities scattered through the mountains.

Subsistence communities, meanwhile, predominate in southwest Alaska, where ocean acidification could threaten food security.

From changing weather patterns to rising sea levels, real-world consequences of climate change are damaging subsistence communities.

Moreover, existing data regarding blood Pb in children from subsistence communities where hunter-killed wild game is a major food source have been demonstrated to be similar to those estimated here.

The loss of species may indeed be of greatest economic concern in rural, high-poverty areas where subsistence communities rely on mangrove areas for fishing and for direct harvesting of mangroves for fuel, construction or other economic products [17], [75] [77].

Byrdcliffe began in 1903 when the son of a millionaire Yorkshire textile baron, Ralph Whitehead, and his American wife, Jane Byrd McCall, founded an art colony in the hills above Woodstock, intending to create a subsistence community of craftsmen.

In a country with the world's seventh-largest economy, Centro do Meio remained a subsistence community with a grave understanding of the difference between what the state promised and what it delivered.

A model for simulating resource flows in a rural subsistence community is described.

Semi-subsistence communities may resist the capitalist system or seek autonomy from the market to avoid relations of dependency and exploitation (e.g., Wolf 1969; Scott 1985; Ploeg 2008).

But the rural heartland of the Eastern Cape is much as Mandela left it, a patchwork of subsistence farming communities scattered over a land of tumultuous beauty.