Sentence examples for landless subsistence from inspiring English sources

And on the basis of that, we were able to help them get into the marketplace with their organic produce, with huge increases in sales and income of what were previously landless subsistence farmers.

At the root of this problem is the disproportionate distribution of land, which favours commercial crops and leaves many peasants landless and unable to grow subsistence crops.

This group includes extremely poor people in urban slums, landless laborers in rural areas and subsistence farmers who cannot grow enough food to last the year.

In the Texas sites, relatively affluent individuals are legally converting forests to residential, commercial, and industrial uses, while in Venezuela landless settlers are extra-legally converting forests for purposes of subsistence agriculture.

The rest are either subsistence farmers on plots of land that get tinier with each generation, or landless labourers.

Gustav Arvidsson has been following the plight of landless peasants in Colombia, where bureaucracy, chicanery and deadly force have been used to dislodge entire villages of subsistence farmers.

Villagers were subsistence farmers.

The landless are not disenfranchised.

"We've become landless, homeless".

By some estimates 300,000 peasants are landless.

Superfluity rather than subsistence.