Sentence examples for maintain subsistence from inspiring English sources

If Andapa farmers maintain subsistence for such reasons, families that can fully meet their needs through self-provisioning might be expected to engage commercial production the least.

Juniperus species growing in dry parts of the USA have similarly resistant xylem and in these species it is thought that an extended period of water extraction from relatively dry soils allows trees to maintain subsistence levels of photosynthesis and transpiration as plant tissues desiccate to extreme water potentials (West et al. 2008).

For example, many Western development projects in Asia and Africa replace ecologically diverse (multispecies) indigenous forests forests that are managed by women and are integral to maintaining subsistence (not money-based) economies with monoculture eucalyptus and teak plantations that are managed by men and where trees are primarily a cash crop for export.

The endogenous view maintains subsistence production logics or cultural norms contextualizing smallholder economies impede full-market immersion (Hyden 1980; Turner and Brush 1987; Turner and Ali 1996).

Rural Kayan generally maintain a subsistence economy based on shifting cultivation, with hill rice grown on clearings in the rainforest.

After interviewing 100 refugees from a dozen ethnic minority groups who fled to Thailand to escape alleged persecution, Amnesty concluded that people from ethnic minorities, especially the Shan, Mon and Karen, often could not maintain a subsistence lifestyle.

The central issue for the First Nations people in this country appears to be the seemingly reckless development from the oil and gas industry that is threatening their cultural right to maintain a subsistence diet meaning they have a legal right to hunt, trap, and fish.

The central issue for Canada's First Nations people appears to be the seemingly reckless development from the oil and gas industry that is threatening their cultural right to maintain a subsistence diet meaning they have a legal right to hunt, trap, and fish.

Catastrophic health care expenditure (CHE) is a general term used to describe all kinds of health expenditures that pose a threat to the financial capacity of a household in order to maintain its subsistence needs [ 5– 8].

Catastrophic Health Expenditure CHEE) is a term used for any expenditure for health that can pose as threat towards household's financial capacity and capability in order to maintain its subsistence needs.

Where sustained agriculture is the aim, burning should be stopped, though at present it is often the only means available for the poor traditional farmer to maintain his subsistence agriculture.