The phrase "alternative subsistence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different methods or practices for obtaining food or resources for survival, particularly in contexts related to sustainability or food security.
Example: "In regions affected by climate change, communities are exploring alternative subsistence strategies to ensure their food security."
Alternatives: "alternative means of survival" or "different methods of sustenance".
For a young Sherpa like Nawang Gombu, who had now proved himself at high altitude, a career in expeditions was a potentially lucrative, if dangerous, alternative to subsistence farming.
Living in Rakai district, an area 125 miles from Uganda's capital city, is a challenge -- a challenge because the only gainful employment alternative is subsistence farming, yet you lack access to finance to improve your farming and lack markets.
APART from better schools and alternatives to subsistence farming, the south needs better transport links.
"Without access to education or alternative means of subsistence, many believe that it is God's wish for them to be slaves".
For President Vicente Fox, who inherited a crisis rooted in decades of paternalism and corruption in the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, reforming the agricultural industry and finding alternative employment for millions of subsistence farmers at a time of widespread resentment may prove his most important domestic challenge.
To conclude, the use of a per capita yield and profit incomes analysis provides relevant, objective, and practical policy advice for the management of small-scale and subsistence fisheries where alternative livelihood options may be limited.
Increasingly, some villagers use other secondary products from agroforests such as Parkia speciosa pods, nuts, rattan, and fruits for subsistence or as alternative sources of income during periods of economic stress.
First, such factories are willing employers of low-skill workers whose alternatives are often much worse: subsistence agriculture, for instance, or abject urban poverty.
Therefore, if other, more attractive jobs are not available, the benefits of staying in the public sector, however low, may seem higher than the alternatives, such as unemployment or subsistence farming.
Growing flowers is hard work, but no more so than subsistence farming, which is the alternative; and it pays better.
