Less variety means less food security for subsistence farmers, as was clearly demonstrated in the Irish potato famine.
However, neglected and underused crops could be more immediately helpful in safeguarding the food security of subsistence farmers, who depend entirely on their crops for nutrition.
To the extent that states do not satisfy their moral obligations to guarantee the universal human right to security and subsistence through international redistributive policies, they have a moral obligation to admit those wishing to enter.
Shue maintains that there are basic rights to security and subsistence.
For Shue, minimal economic security, or subsistence, entails "unpolluted air, unpolluted water, adequate food, adequate clothing, adequate shelter, and minimal preventive public health care [ 23].
An association between climate and emergence of filarioid parasites is a challenge to ecosystem services with direct effects on public health, sustainability of free-ranging and domestic ungulates, and ultimately food security for subsistence cultures at high latitudes.
Band, in anthropology, a notional type of human social organization consisting of a small number of people (usually no more than 30 to 50 persons in all) who form a fluid, egalitarian community and cooperate in activities such as subsistence, security, ritual, and care for children and elders.
But the Maoists, though often corrupt and brutal, have found a large constituency among millions of indigenous peoples (Adivasis), for whom even the fragile security of a subsistence economy has been destroyed by the nexus between global corporations and their Indian enforcers.
Their resilience, in turn, is enhanced by their ability to diversify their strategies to achieve food security, ranging from subsistence pastoralism to trade, to market pastoralism to wage work in the tourism industry, or even to temporary out-migration.
