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The phrase "a cycle of subsistence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a repetitive pattern or system that focuses on meeting basic needs for survival, often in the context of economics or ecology.
Example: "In many traditional societies, a cycle of subsistence is evident, where communities rely on local resources for their daily survival."
Alternatives: "a pattern of self-sufficiency" or "a loop of basic survival".
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The toiling peasant, freed from the brutal exactions of native tax collectors, would be able to break through a cycle of subsistence, and produce crops (like raw cotton) actually demanded by British manufacturers and consumers.
Eighty percent of coffee farmers- -or 20 million people are trapped in a cycle of subsistence farming, according to co-founder Noushin Ketabi.
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Before the 19th century, most people were caught in an endless cycle of subsistence farming.
What the research actually highlights is a group of people trapped in a cycle of short-term work, making desperate claims for subsistence benefits, and compelled to sign up for various work schemes (which fail them utterly) and more short-term work, as the whole cycle repeats endlessly.
As a result, smallholder agriculture has increasingly become subsistence-oriented, with many of these farmers trapped in a cycle of poverty.
These habits perpetuate a cycle of poverty.
Then you get a cycle of replacement".
It continues a cycle of poverty.
Islands of capitalism existed amid a sea of subsistence labour.
Some of the sellers are simply the rural poor, seeking a means of subsistence.
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