Farming which meets the basic needs of the farmer and family.
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Examples for "subsistence farming "
1 Men, women and children from the subsistence farming region had occupied the highway.
2 Men, women and children from the subsistence farming region were blocking the highway.
3 Ever since the Ration War, the UN has encouraged subsistence farming wherever it's practical.
4 A major shift occurred from subsistence farming to fruit crops.
5 None of the plots are large; this is subsistence farming .
1 But ultimately, with the population doubling every generation, the Sahel cannot survive on subsistence agriculture .
2 Most Solomon Islanders live on subsistence agriculture and fishing.
3 Most people depend on subsistence agriculture and their resources are often overstretched just feeding their families.
4 Most of Malawi's 12 million people live below the poverty line and survive on subsistence agriculture .
5 The programme gives individual farmers the skills to move from bare subsistence agriculture to income-generating farming.
6 What farming exists is almost entirely subsistence agriculture .
7 Guyana didn't have a lot going for it and many of the people practiced subsistence agriculture .
8 Most members of Africa's informal-sector workforce are involved in subsistence agriculture , and are less likely to be affected.
9 Even sub-orbital machines were the apex of a pyramid, huge and old, resting on things like subsistence agriculture .
10 There are tens of millions of people living in regions where limited rainfall provided enough water for subsistence agriculture .
11 The majority of Solomon Islanders live on subsistence agriculture with less than a quarter of the population having paid jobs.
12 In the absence of barter economy, the economy might have ground to a complete halt and deteriorated to subsistence agriculture .
13 While only a few got rich, most made a much better living than they would have done in rubber-tapping, fishing or subsistence agriculture .
14 The two Samoas and Tonga have a combined population of about 400,000 people and rely on subsistence agriculture , fishing and tourism.
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