Not all subsistence cultivators were tenants; there were many free peasant owners in early medieval Italy.
By historic times, when outsiders describe the change, some Southeast Asians turn to rice as if it were an addiction, not a subsistence (O'Connor 1995, 986 fn6).
The early English economy was not a subsistence economy and many crops were grown by peasant farmers for sale to the early English towns.
If he didn't have subsistence foods to share with them during that time, it would be too expensive to maintain.
Despite the struggle to survive, the goal wasn't mere subsistence or corporeal existence but a life, entailing a nuanced inner life — the life of the imagination, of fancy and dream, of dramas and, for that matter, of comedies that surpassed the ordeal of mere perseverance.
Elephants may appear valuable to some, but not to the subsistence farmers who must live alongside them.
His legacy is a broken country where subsistence, not living, is the standard by which scores of millions are measured even today.
Hoff's twenty-dollar Waterboxx might not interest the subsistence farmers of Mali, but then Sultan Qaboos and his citizens weren't likely to pick up axes and dig zais.
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.
Once again we were part of a culture in which people killed what little meat they ate (Bolivia enjoyed seeing the chicken head in her bowl of soup), wore clothes for protection rather than fashion, and worked for subsistence, not status.
