Sentence examples for community of subsistence from inspiring English sources

Another section of the book imagines the life of a child, Juan, born in a community of subsistence farmers.

A community of subsistence farmers from Etas outside of Port Vila faced an uncertain future after evacuating their village to take shelter at Lycée Bougainville in Naburu, where 38 families sleep on school desks and classroom floors.

This pastoral ethos is still engrossed in a sensibility honed in a waning era, during which prevailed a 'moral community of subsistence' practicing an inadvertently ecologically sustainable mode of coping with nature's vagaries, and for which the initial conditions for its sustainability are gradually disappearing.

He also explains that the cost of public transport to clinics is prohibitive for people from this community of subsistence farmers.

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |  next After a gruelling journey from Luang Namtha district health office, Chantara and Laluanglad finally arrive in Nam Chang, a 200-strong community of subsistence farmers and their children, belonging to the Lanten ethnic group.

Each toilet cover is sold for 500 naira (about US$2.50), an affordable amount for this community made up mainly of subsistence farmers.

On the land, her group wants to revive the tradition of community subsistence farming.

Many invasive alien species (IAS) are used by local communities for a variety of subsistence and income generating purposes.

Byrdcliffe began in 1903 when the son of a millionaire Yorkshire textile baron, Ralph Whitehead, and his American wife, Jane Byrd McCall, founded an art colony in the hills above Woodstock, intending to create a subsistence community of craftsmen.

But the rural heartland of the Eastern Cape is much as Mandela left it, a patchwork of subsistence farming communities scattered over a land of tumultuous beauty.

The majority of community members are subsistence producers and most of the adult population is illiterate.