Sentence examples for In subsistence from inspiring English sources

Most of the population is engaged in subsistence farming, but barely subsisting.

Many of them live in subsistence villages.

Nearly half the working population are involved in subsistence farming.

The most visible change was a further diversification in subsistence.

They engage chiefly in subsistence agriculture based on the cultivation of yams, taros, sweet potatoes, and bananas.

"Grandmother investment aimed at improving grandchildren's nutrition in subsistence societies may have different outcomes in contemporary affluent societies".

Some two-fifths of its people live in hamlets or isolated dwellings, and many engage in subsistence agriculture.

Although most of the population is engaged in subsistence agriculture, Sierra Leone is also a mining centre.

The great majority of the working population is still engaged in subsistence agriculture and in the production of cash crops.

They engage mainly in subsistence gardening, pig raising, and fishing but are also involved in the cash economy.

Gwilym Mumford There are some 250 million slash-and-burn farmers across the world, half of whom are involved in subsistence agriculture.