Sentence examples for most subsistence from inspiring English sources

A rainfall deficit last year — the short rainy season ended early, and rains were rare and irregular — left the land without the surface ponds that many of Niger's 17 million people, most subsistence farmers, depend on.

Today Rwanda has 8.8 million people; most are subsistence farmers.

Most were subsistence farmers in their countries of origin until their lives were repeatedly uprooted.

Most are subsistence farmers who rely on maize a "recipe for poverty", according to Luis de la Calle, who was one of Mexico's NAFTA negotiators.

This forced the abandonment of most aboriginal subsistence patterns in favour of agriculture and ranching, in those areas where land remained in native hands, or in wage work, usually as farmhands and ranch hands.

I don't kid myself about the unenlightened and even cruel ways capitalism has been practiced by many companies: accumulating wealth for a few while paying most employees subsistence wages; fighting regulation while blithely degrading the environment; avoiding taxes and ignoring responsibilities for the communities in which they're based.

For instance, a study suggests that business training based on "rule of thumb" rather than on sophisticated and difficult lessons may be more effective, specifically for the most vulnerable subsistence self-employed (Drexler et al. 2011).

As a result, many Afghan farmers (most Afghans subsistence farm) lack proper amounts of water to successfully farm.

10 This reserve ensures, at most, minimum subsistence.

Most are subsistence farmers, growing crops on small family plots.

Pearl millet is one of the most important subsistence crops grown in India and sub-Saharan Africa.