16– 19 Informants were selected according to relevant variables such as gender, age, subsistence strategy, locality, adherence, etc. to allow for maximum variation in the sample.
There was perceived financial benefit from workshop attendance (from payment of travel and subsistence allowances), which has created negative attitudes among staff who were not selected to attend the training workshops.
Looking back to the Neolithic period, changes in subsistence, settlement, and social organization associated with the agricultural revolution created conditions that selected for the emergence of acute, epidemic, 'crowd' infectious diseases, such as smallpox, measles, and pertussis, which were among the chief causes of human morbidity and mortality up until the second epidemiologic transition (1).
And so the question arises: Do subsistence farmers, who select their seeds from year to year, have enough diversity in their fields today to fashion the varieties they will need for tomorrow?" Fowler is convinced that they do not.
13), David Brooks selects examples from which to generalize about such important issues as treatment of elders ("Tribes at this subsistence level just don't have the resources to care for people who can't keep up") and the use of violence ("Pre-state tribal societies are just a lot more violent").
Villagers were subsistence farmers.
Most Rwandans are subsistence farmers.
Superfluity rather than subsistence.
"It's subsistence farming.
"Expand the means of subsistence," he said.
