Sentence examples for marginal subsistence from inspiring English sources
War is one of a number of shocks that drives populations to marginal subsistence strategies with among many implications a likely increase in the recourse to bush meat and forest-based livelihoods.
That – and it's not so distant – was a world of ink and paper, whisky and cigarettes, jiffy bags and coffee, borrowed time, marginal living and threadbare subsistence dominated by day-to-day worries about typewriter ribbons, carbons and galley proofs.
For people in subsistence or marginal economic circumstances, such opportunity costs may be an insurmountable barrier.
Plant breeders have long desired to produce broadly adapted, improved varieties for small, subsistence landholders in marginal environments as a way to increase production (Evans 1993 p. 164; Braun et al. 1996; Jiang et al. 1999).
"They are subsistence farmers in often very marginal environments".
First, expansion of less favored, or "marginal", agricultural land is occurring primarily to meet the subsistence and near-subsistence needs of rural households.
For poor subsistence farmers, land, no matter how marginal, is all they have.
Until the late 20th century the plant was largely viewed as a marginal crop and was grown primarily by poor subsistence farmers in Bolivia and Peru.
Villagers were subsistence farmers.
Superfluity rather than subsistence.
