They grew maize, beans, squash, and sweet potatoes. They lived in the tropical rainforest. This was very hard. The Mayans used the slash and burn or milpa form of agriculture. They would burn down forest and use the ash as fertilizer.
Honors Biology Project Part One By: Logan Lazaras The ecosystem that is being studied in this particular assignment is deforestation. Deforestation occurs in many places all around the world. However, we will be discussing the affects of deforestation in the South African rainforest. This is a threat to many species within the destructed region. Trees and toucans are going to be the species studied during the report.
The immediate cause is the removal of vegetation, the removal of vegetation happens due to a number of factors. Firstly too man live stock on too little land, this is called over grazing. Over grazing has led to a reduction in the remaining vegetation, the animals become desperate and resort to eating roots as well as leaves. The plants cannot recover and they die. The removal of crops to feed families and build on the land where the crops were.
Kill all the useless ones. And then we can cut the forest they have been living on and kazzam!! we more land. We have land to fulfill all our needs. We can build more cities and cultivate more crops.
Why can’t people feed themselves? As of today, third world countries do not have access to the high-quality land to feed themselves. The plentiful land they once owned has been ruined. Unfortunately, due to clear cutting by plantations many years ago, the soil has no nutrients left. “Colonialism destroyed the cultural patterns of production and exchange by which traditional societies in “underdeveloped” countries previously had met the needs of people.”(Lappe, p.184) Furthermore, the useable land that is left is not available to them.
The land was no longer able for them to hunt and gather food and they couldn’t to the new food such as sugar and flour. As a result, the amount of food that they could eat become lesser and lesser, which led to malnutrition. b. Loss of culture, land, identity, and Indigenous law The indigenous people were lived on hunting and gathering. They had deep knowledge of their land, source of water,and the seasonal cycle of plant food.
The Mayan Indians were very primitive hunting people. They used spears, bows and arrows to hunt animals for food mainly in the forest. The animal was gutted and separated in the woods before returning to their village. They would carry the meat on sticks tied with rope back to the village. Mayan families all lived together, the parents, children, grandparents and some great-grandparents.
However due to illegal logging and the government’s agricultural policy, it had resulted in the loss of many forests. Without these forests there will be no vegetation to intercept the rainwater. Besides that since Thailand is geographically sloped at angle without trees to secure the soil together, it will increase the chances of soil erosion so the soil and mud will be washed into rivers causing them to be shallower. Furthermore the bare slopes that remained will result in increased surface runoff. Similarly in Boscastle, farming in upper course had led to deforestation and removal of hedgerows decreasing the amount of interception from higher ground.
Jhordin Galmore Mr. Duvall 11/2/13 7G-1 What if Lives were Based on a Simple Geography and Climate? Geography and climate in the different colonies affected how people lived. The New England Region had a very cold climate, rocky soil and they had short growing seasons. The climate caused them to have very poor farming and they could not grow many crops because they were less fertile. They could fish, and they had cold seas, and they would go whaling.
This is caused by the lack of communication and transportation in remote rural areas. Because of this, governments can’t provide essential services such as potable water, affordable food, primary health care, and education. People who live there are totally isolated from the rest of the society. The third and most significant cause of poverty in Mexico is the political economy of the country. The International Monetary Fund and World Bank-prescribed structural adjustment policies have been applied in Mexico because the government doesn’t carry out enough policies to encourage successful development.