Most of the population is engaged in subsistence farming, but barely subsisting.
Some two-fifths of its people live in hamlets or isolated dwellings, and many engage in subsistence agriculture.
The great majority of the working population is still engaged in subsistence agriculture and in the production of cash crops.
Although most of the population is engaged in subsistence agriculture, Sierra Leone is also a mining centre.
Tai-speaking peoples historically settled along river valleys, where they formed small settlements and engaged in subsistence rice agriculture, fishing, and gathering of forest products.
Oaxaca is one of Mexico's most ethnically diverse states, with a large concentration of indigenous groups who are chiefly engaged in subsistence farming.
Some four-fifths of the working population is engaged in subsistence agriculture, but the government supports the development of commercial products.
There are generally fewer women in paid employment than men, though a large proportion of women in sub-Saharan countries are engaged in subsistence agriculture if only part of the time.
Eighty percent of Ethiopia's overall labor force is engaged in subsistence farming.
About 90% of the population is engaged in subsistence agriculture and cotton is the main cash crop.
