Sentence examples for a local subsistence from inspiring English sources

Peanuts (groundnuts), a local subsistence crop and now the prime commodity, are bagged and stored in huge pyramids before being sent to Lagos for export.

The decline of international trade and the disintegration of a money economy, he contended, brought about a regression to a less sophisticated, closed agricultural system based on a local subsistence economy and a stratified class system.

Without a clean water supply, local subsistence activities have been devastated.

Lemurs are hunted for food by the local Malagasy, either for local subsistence or to supply a luxury meat market in the larger cities.

Placing Kerkenes in its environmental and economic landscape suggests that farmers took advantage of favorable rainfall patterns to emphasize a preferred cereal crop, deploying new strategies to minimize local subsistence risk.

As part of their "fast-track" land reform programme, the government encouraged local subsistence farmers to invade wildlife conservancies where rhino populations were being protected and rebuilt.

These species are targeted by local subsistence fishermen and sustain substantial bird and crocodile populations.

While rice-growers developed local subsistence activities, kept more of their African heritage and held on to a Creole, those suffering cotton and sugar regimens had no such buffers.

However, in the past, the focus of CBF in Nepal was the provision of goods for local subsistence, and there has been limited analysis of the role of CBF in providing ecosystem services (ES) from restored forest landscapes.

Litter, particularly plastic fishing nets that local, subsistence fishermen use, are also washed back on the beach.

Deforestation takes the form of local subsistence use, such as slash and burn agriculture (referred to as tavy in Malagasy), the creation of pasture for cattle through burning, and legal and illegal gathering of wood for firewood or charcoal production; commercial mining; and the illegal logging of precious hardwoods for foreign markets.