Sentence examples for poor subsistence from inspiring English sources

For poor subsistence farmers, land, no matter how marginal, is all they have.

The former kingdom's 635,000 citizens are mostly poor subsistence farmers.

The industry has focused its immense pool of investment on products designed for farmers of the first world, which are of little relevance to poor subsistence farmers.

In an astonishing and brazen display of corporate intimidation, they also sued Mahan Sangarsh Samiti, an organisation formed by poor subsistence villagers from the Mahan forest.

Cecilia, 18, is the third of seven (soon to be eight) children born to extremely poor subsistence farmers in Bansi, a remote corner of north-eastern Ghana.

The youngest of five sisters, she knew that her elderly mother and father, poor subsistence farmers, had gone deeply into debt to pay for her dowry and wedding.

MFM (at the stand level) dominates in poor subsistence-oriented autarchic forest settings, it typically declines when entering capitalist stages of specialized commodity production, but may then rebound (at the landscape level) in more advanced development stages.

The Medical Research Council's field station in Keneba, The Gambia has been monitoring the anthropometric status of the poor subsistence-farming population of 3 rural villages for >6 decades.

The main argument states that the Green Revolution worsened income distribution as it was biased in favor of larger farmers and missed the poorer subsistence small-scale farmers (Das [1998]; Griffin [1979]; Freebairn [1995]; Goldman and Smith [1995]).

Hunger engulfs almost a billion of the globe's citizens but inadequate nutrition is an even broader epidemic that consumes millions of healthy lives, from the richest nations to the poorest subsistence farmers.

Anyone who has read the novels of Charles Dickens knows there was a time when most people scraped a living from day to day, with no protection against hardship other than a miserable subsistence in the poor-house.