Sentence examples for depend on subsistence from inspiring English sources

Two out of three Ugandans still depend on subsistence farming, and fewer than one in ten have electricity.

Most of Bhutan's 700,000 inhabitants depend on subsistence farming.

Finally, 80% of Africans depend on subsistence agriculture to ensure their families have something to eat.

Isolation is onerous in rural communities where most families depend on subsistence farming and no longer have markets for trading.

Although most of the inhabitants were obliged to depend on subsistence farming, the more fortunate Spaniards found wealth in the export of a variety of local products, all of which experienced periods of "boom and bust".

Even though agricultural land is scarce, approximately 90% of Burundians depend on subsistence farming as their main source of income and nutrition (World Bank 2015).

Eritrea has resources — gold, copper, zinc, and potash — but the majority of the population depends on subsistence farming.

In the tropical rainforests to the south, the sparse population depends on subsistence agriculture or hunting and gathering.

Mineral springs attract a small tourist trade, but the economy primarily depends on subsistence agriculture and tropical farming (e.g., bananas and pineapple).

Under his firm's plan, farmers who once depended on subsistence work will earn wages on a sugarcane plantation or from selling sugarcane they grow to a planned processing facility.

Nearly 80percentt of the population depends on subsistence agriculture with very low productivity and low farm income (MoFA [2010]).