Sentence examples for live as subsistence from inspiring English sources

"A Far Country" is a book about the world's poor, the several billion people who live as subsistence farmers or flee their land to scrabble for a living in the smog-choked megacities of the south.

Most of its 600m people live as subsistence farmers.

Gelana, Dibaba and Roba are from the same village, Bekoji, located above 9,000 feet in Ethiopia's southern highlands where many residents live as subsistence farmers.

Unable to attend school past the fourth grade, his brothers live as subsistence farmers in the area of Ethiopia in which they were born.

Although most Mexicans live in urban areas, Chiapas remains a largely rural state with a majority of residents living as subsistence farmers or peasant laborers.

Ninety-five per cent of Rwanda's land was under cultivation, and the average family consisted of eight people living as subsistence farmers on less than half an acre.

The people of New Ireland are still mainly living as subsistence farmers, being self-sufficient and focussing on growing enough food to feed themselves and their families.

It is the second poorest district in Kenya, with most of the rural population living as subsistence farmers.

Kilifi is situated on the Indian Ocean coast and is among the poorest areas in Kenya, with most of the rural population living as subsistence farmers.

Two in five Namibians live on less than $1.25 a day; 60% continue to eke out a living as subsistence farmers.

A Muslim people partly descended from Central Asian, Persian, and Arab traders who travelled along the Silk Road, the Hui have, for generations, lived mostly as subsistence farmers in Ningxia's inhospitable mountain regions.