Her father was a subsistence farmer.
"My cousin in Tibet is an illiterate subsistence farmer.
He abandoned academic life in 1991 to become a subsistence farmer and militant pacifist and ecologist.
"When I cough, my chest is very painful," says Eremu, a subsistence farmer.
"A cow gives milk and a chicken lays eggs," explained José Mata, a subsistence farmer here.
Simon Edessou, 65, a subsistence farmer, cuts an unlikely figure as a saviour of African babies.
When you are a subsistence farmer, this practical intervention is life or death.
Laughing, he recounted how his father, a subsistence farmer, did not want him to become an athlete.
The editorial, like much commentary on the case, seemed to suppose that Mr. Filburn was a subsistence farmer.
"As well as being blue, it burns the seedlings and sterilises the earth," the 67-year-old subsistence farmer said.
"I don't know how we will be able to survive under such dry conditions," says Bathalefhi Seoroka, a subsistence farmer.
