Sentence examples for dual subsistence from inspiring English sources
We ask why this dual (subsistence and commercial) production system persists.
This process may push subsistence farmers into dual systems (or even full-market immersion) when commercial production meets consumption goals more efficiently than subsistence (Boserup 1981; Tiffen and Mortimore 1992).
Nevertheless, consistent with dual production systems elsewhere, combined subsistence and commercial production may be viewed as a risk-adverse strategy in the face of potentially low commercial yields (e.g., Ewell and Merrill-Sands 1987; Ellis 2000).
Smallholder farmers in the Andapa Region of northeast Madagascar (Fig. 1) practice a dual production system involving slash-and-burn hill rice (tavy) and irrigated paddy rice for subsistence and vanilla and coffee for the market.
Villagers were subsistence farmers.
Superfluity rather than subsistence.
"It's subsistence farming.
Most Rwandans are subsistence farmers.
Well, what is subsistence?
