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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?

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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.

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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...

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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...

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