Their subsistence depended on the cultivation of corn (maize), hunting, and fishing.
The contrast between the indigenous people on the Beagle, who had been Europeanised in their customs, and the local indigenous people, whose subsistence depended on hunting and gathering in the cold waters and woods of the region, demonstrated to him how adaptable human beings were".
But subsistence farmers depend on it because it's "very drought-tolerant and very bad-management-tolerant," said Edward Charles, a team leader for the Great Lakes Cassava Initiative, a six-country consortium based in Kenya and supported by the Gates Foundation.
A rainfall deficit last year — the short rainy season ended early, and rains were rare and irregular — left the land without the surface ponds that many of Niger's 17 million people, most subsistence farmers, depend on.
"[But people] in many subsistence countries depend on their local water source and if upstream you have got a big industrial cotton or soy growing plant, we're starting to affect in many many cases around the world the ability for poor people to develop, feed themselves, industrialise, to supply basic products we use every day: soy beans for cattle, cotton for clothing, and so on.
Darity shows that subsistence farming depended on the labor of women, while the production of income depended on the labor of both men and women in cash-crop activities.
This subsistence life style depends on a lot of money".
An assembly of 56 native villages in western Alaska recently passed a resolution against the road because it would threaten their subsistence culture, which depends on the migratory birds and salmon runs in the refuge.
The population of northeast Thailand, which has farming as primary occupation, has adjusted to this environmental variability by developing a combined subsistence system that depends on glutinous rice as main source of income and dietary staple, corresponding to 70% of the arable land of the region (Wijnhoud 2007).
Eritrea has resources — gold, copper, zinc, and potash — but the majority of the population depends on subsistence farming.
