It is this Warsaw underworld, with its scamming and its subsistence culture, that is so vividly evoked in Andrzej Stasiuk's new novel, "Nine".
Where oil is the only resource beyond the subsistence economy, that is a recipe for disaster.Sudan's oil has been known for 30 years.
Ultimately, this created a tightly coupled continent-wide subsistence system that was vulnerable to the weather, economic and disease shocks of the 14th century when Europe's population declined by perhaps 50%.
Linda Marie Fedigan argues that feminists should resist the tendency to invert and revalue the gender-dichotomous categories central to our own sex/gender system; it seems likely that our hominid ancestors lived in social groups and utilized subsistence strategies that were unlike any that are familiar from contemporary ethnographic or primatological research (Fedigan 1986).
This subsistence way of life that is thousands of years old is threatened by the plans of a British and Canadian mining partnership to dig a huge mine in the heart of our productive, healthy watershed.
However, there was no evidence that adult smallpox victims were more likely to be poor (that is, subsistence migrants).
I am proud to be the patron of an innovative community reforestation and environmental education program in the mountains of Timor-Leste, one of the world's small developing nations, that is enabling subsistence farmers to generate income while taking action on climate change.
The ANA project described monitoring subsistence food species that are consumed by tribal members for environmental contaminants.
These were grouped together into categories such as "consumption items", "subsistence items" etc., that were then further transformed into major themes.
Canada allocates a certain number of permits each year to sport and subsistence hunting, and those that are not used for sport hunting are re-allocated to Native subsistence hunting.
