Sentence examples for do subsistence from inspiring English sources

And so the question arises: Do subsistence farmers, who select their seeds from year to year, have enough diversity in their fields today to fashion the varieties they will need for tomorrow?" Fowler is convinced that they do not.

But they knew 97% of residents of this undulating land could not afford the bus ride to and entrance fees into the parks to see their own nation's wildlife; that 80% eked out less than $2/day doing subsistence farming.

I attempt to calculate the amount of hours I've wasted doing subsistence work, completely unrelated to my writing, but I backtrack and try to tell myself that you learn something from everything, be it a co-worker's inflection, a customer's routine, the capacity some people have to smile, always.

Much of the slash-and-burn forest clearance is done by subsistence farmers in order to grow food to survive.

A lot of fishing in Hawaii is done for subsistence — a way for working-class people to eat better food than they can afford to buy.

Squalor and neglect surround most of the black urban working class even more than it does the subsistence farmer, and constant migration from the countryside continues to exacerbate their misery.

The economy's vulnerability to the weather is heightened by the fact that less than one-third of cropland is irrigated and that much farming is done at subsistence level without modern technology.

Fishing in Lake Turkana is done at subsistence level.

The degree of DO stratification varied significantly among culture systems: integrated culture systems showed the greatest DO stratification, and subsistence systems the least (Fig. 6).

Few peasants would be able to buy enough land to do more than subsistence farming.

Integrated culture system showed the greatest DO stratification, whereas subsistence system showed the least (Fig. 6).