Today, no country carries out a substantial hunt, although Indonesia and Greenland permit small subsistence hunts.
The International Whaling Commission banned commercial whaling in 1986, although some permits for aboriginal subsistence hunting are still granted.
Agricultural activity has yielded considerably more than subsistence, permitting the Hausa to practice such craft specializations as thatching, leatherworking, weaving, and silversmithing.
Lange accepted a modified version of Thomas Malthus's concerns about the relation between increases in population and food production: "The truth of the Malthusian theory consists therefore in this, that the growth of the population constantly reaches the limit that the growth of the means of subsistence permits" (Lange 1975b, 31; Weikart 1999, 86).
Some countries on the continent have some of the world's richest forests; others are dry deserts and severely lacking in forest cover; yet others have only modest natural forest endowment which permits mainly local subsistence usage.
Orwell thought that perhaps fifteen acres of land, "at the very most," might be permitted, presumably to allow subsistence farming, but that there would be no ownership of land in town areas.
Indigenous communities in Peru are permitted to hunt for subsistence, but the selling of bush meat is a grey area.
Residents are permitted limited hunts for their own subsistence, but Aldenira Queiroz, an agency director, said the quantity indicated "a large-scale commercial operation," which was illegal.
Canada allocates a certain number of permits each year to sport and subsistence hunting, and those that are not used for sport hunting are re-allocated to Native subsistence hunting.
