For most, the only future is subsistence farming.
They may want to get some farmland in Vermont while they're at it, for a possible future in subsistence farming.
Mr Osborne speculates that another factor is the perception that dams, electricity and mega-projects are the symbols of a modernistic future; fishing and subsistence farming, by contrast, are reminders of a backward past.
As a part of the Caring for Cambodia gender equity program initiative, staff members visit Kong in hopes of bringing her back to school and helping her secure a future beyond mere subsistence.
It is also a town so severely lacking in educational opportunities, economic outlook and basic necessities, including access to safe drinking water and toilets, that girls like Sandra haven't dared imagine a future beyond the subsistence farming, fishing or timber sales of their parents and the generations before them.
We may also be able to predict with some accuracy the effects of our present actions on future generations' means of subsistence.
When I asked Jacob Adams about the prospects of subsistence in a future without ice, his answer showed a mixture of cultural pride and a hunter's bravado.
Thus, if we decide to deplete rather than conserve resources, this will in all likelihood have adverse impacts on future people's rights to subsistence (to life, health, food, water and housing), to development and self-determination.
The implication is that the survival and well being of the present and future generation in countries with subsistence agriculture and centuries old farming practices depend on the extent of maintaining soil fertility which is the basis of agricultural resources (Brady and Weil 2002).
Also starting today, Xinhua will publish special reports daily – in Chinese and other languages – on children's safety, subsistence, development and future.
