Sentence examples for been subsistence from inspiring English sources

Most Igbo traditionally have been subsistence farmers, their staples being yams, cassava, and taro.

This paper examines trajectories of change in Kahua, Solomon Islands, where people have traditionally relied on subsistence activities and have in the past been subsistence affluent.

"Our farmers have remained poor because they have been subsistence farmers, and in commercialising agriculture we have to address a number of other issues: markets, accessibility, roads, storage capacity, value addition - we can train youths to work as farmers so they can earn a comfortable living".

First, every basic income proposal I've seen has been subsistence-level basic income; people would still have to work to get anything better than a thin shared roof over their heads and three cheap meals a day.

Villagers were subsistence farmers.

"It's subsistence farming.

Most Rwandans are subsistence farmers.

What we care about is subsistence".

"Eighty percent of people are subsistence farmers.

The rest lived by the hoe; they were subsistence farmers.

But this was subsistence farming of the hardest kind.