Sentence examples for efficient subsistence from inspiring English sources

With maize at $5 a bushel, thanks to a (subsidised) boom in its use to make ethanol in the United States, even the least efficient subsistence farmer can make money.

Trade negotiators for Central and South American countries, they said, should bargain for more gradual tariff reductions on corn, rice and beans -- the staples of subsistence farming -- to give peasants time to adjust to tough competition from large, highly efficient and heavily subsidized American farmers.

Villagers were subsistence farmers.

Superfluity rather than subsistence.

"It's subsistence farming.

Most Rwandans are subsistence farmers.

Can the virtuosity of persuasion – that's marketing – keep pace with the productive growth, can it be efficient enough in persuading ourselves to produce new desires to keep the specialised economy running while we're getting more efficient at doing the basic stuff, ie the most essential goods like food and housing needed for subsistence.

That's just basic subsistence.

Just a matter of subsistence?

They get paid subsistence wages.

"Expand the means of subsistence," he said.