Well, Uganda's first wildlife vet and conservation NGO founder has started a project empowering locals to grow cash crops like coffee or tea to support safe and healthy gorilla populations.
And then we also try and encourage them to have a cash crop like coffee or tea, because the more that they have food security, the less likely they're going to enter the forest to poach.
But if say you're a smallholder farmer and 84% of the farmers in the world are smallholder farmers so they eat what they grow on their farms and they sell a small amount perhaps of a cash crop.
And there were also some older farmers who were launching into new types of farming ventures, like planting apple orchards, and growing some cash crops that could earn them a little bit more money.
Sure, agriculture is a perfectly good use of water in some cases, but in many countries with limited water resources, that water is diverted to grow cash crops like cotton, sugar or avocados.
He facilitated wealthy landowners and foreign inventors to buy up Mexico's land, take communal spaces from the poor and indigenous peasantry, and force these villagers to farm cash crops.