How To Use Subsistence farming In A Sentence
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We will not be reduced to subsistence farming and exporting fish and chips if the banks leave.
Times, Sunday Times
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It takes around two or three generations of sweatshops to go from the ancient pattern of peasant subsistence farming, with its characteristic grinding toil for women to where the country is now.
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In Belize, they are the poorest of the poor, most living by subsistence farming.
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Nevertheless, many of the former hunter-gatherers are still reliant on subsistence farming and making craftwork for tourists.
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We lived from subsistence farming, growing sweet potatoes, corn, some sugarcane, and ginger.
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At present, however, only about 10 percent of the nation's agricultural land is under cultivation, and subsistence farming is all but dead.
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Preferential interest rates also favor commercial over subsistence farming in many countries.
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Andrew Rice makes a good point when he says that foreign investors can bring in new technologies and boost the productivity of underused land to feed not only foreign investors but Africans as well (though the question that follows is whether foreign investors view subsistence farming as "underuse" of land).
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Moreover, the arable land is more suited to collective as opposed to subsistence farming.
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Cities draw people away from subsistence farming, which is ecologically devastating, and they defuse the population bomb.
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The emphasis on projects to help small-scale producers go beyond mere subsistence farming is increasing.
Times, Sunday Times
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In this type of subsistence farming rice was the most important crop and several of the 92 recognized rice varieties were planted in new swiddens.
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A small coffee industry and subsistence farming counterbalance the poverty of the land reserves.
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Average life expectancy is 54; malaria, yellow fever and other diseases are rampant; and much of the population is engaged in subsistence farming of rice, yams and bananas.
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We lived from subsistence farming, growing sweet potatoes, corn, some sugarcane, and ginger.
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There was no work for young people and families had gone back to subsistence farming.
Times, Sunday Times
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Moreover, the arable land is more suited to collective as opposed to subsistence farming.
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Most people support themselves through subsistence farming, growing rice, yams, cassava, bananas, and palm oil nuts.
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We will not be reduced to subsistence farming and exporting fish and chips if the banks leave.
Times, Sunday Times
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In this buffer zone around the park, people survive through subsistence farming and cash crops such as cotton.
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Upwards of 80 per cent of its people survive on subsistence farming, and in terms of generally accepted economic measurement they live in poverty.
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Food is provided by subsistence farming.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most Quechua rely on subsistence farming for their livelihood.
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We will not be reduced to subsistence farming and exporting fish and chips if the banks leave.
Times, Sunday Times
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In this buffer zone around the park, people survive through subsistence farming and cash crops such as cotton.
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Most of its 12 million people are dependent on subsistence farming.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wine formed the most important cash crop, while cereal production generally took the form of subsistence farming.
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The emphasis on projects to help small-scale producers go beyond mere subsistence farming is increasing.
Times, Sunday Times
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The disappearance of subsistence farming is deplorable for many reasons.
Infinite in All Directions
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Agriculture: largely subsistence farming and nomadic animal husbandry; cash products - wheat, fruits, nuts, karakul pelts, wool, mutton
The 1994 CIA World Factbook
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Moreover, the arable land is more suited to collective as opposed to subsistence farming.
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And the economy moved from a mixture of cotton planting and subsistence farming to the unalloyed growing, buying, and selling of cotton.
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Zambian vernacular architecture is integrated with nature in an agricultural society of subsistence farming.
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As nations emerge from the poverty of subsistence farming, they build heavy industry.
Times, Sunday Times
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More than half of the population live in rural areas, many relying on subsistence farming.
Times, Sunday Times
