Sentence examples for or subsistence from inspiring English sources

The majority are fed and housed by the traditional, or subsistence, economy.

Few people in remote Warrap have jobs, mostly with NGOs; the rest are cattle traders or subsistence farmers.

Crop, In agriculture, a plant or plant product that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence.

However inadequate their income, they will send two-thirds of it to the homestead, village or subsistence farm they have left.

The Group of 8 nations are so successful, in fact, that they can spare their young citizens the travails of pointless war, periodic famines or subsistence farming.

Poaching on such a scale is not driven by opportunism or subsistence imperatives, but by armed non-state actors and organised groups with wider links".

Abortion rates were higher (P = 0.0001) in herds with commercial purposes than in farms oriented towards subsistence or subsistence-commercial 'mix' farming.

Engagement into dairy farming was more commonly commercial (P = 0.0025) in Kampala rather than a subsistence or subsistence-commercial 'mix' engagement as in Gulu.

Others use global palaeoclimate records to argue for the mandatory beginnings of agriculture during the Holocene, by linking them to the rate of innovation of subsistence technology or subsistence-related social organization [ 23– 25].

Under the plan, eligible farmers -- those with less than eight acres of coca -- would immediately replace their coca with corn, plantains or other subsistence crops.

Of course, the majority of older people remain either poor or on subsistence incomes – and many themselves live in rented properties – but a large minority do not.