Sentence examples for subsistence- from inspiring English sources

Most of the population is engaged in subsistence farming, but barely subsisting.

I was born into a working-class family in Hackney: my mother was a housewife and my father earned a subsistence wage as a packer in a Stepney warehouse.

Harvest, his latest novel, dramatises one of the great under-told narratives of English history: the forced enclosure of open fields and common land from the late medieval era on, whereby subsistence agriculture was replaced by profitable wool production and the peasant farmers dispossessed and displaced.

Nearly half the working population are involved in subsistence farming.

The people of Amoko are mostly subsistence farmers and their days are usually the same.

A continent where women are empowered to transform their subsistence farms to businesses that supply food, income and enable them to create wealth, assets and move into business leadership.

Koroma is now turning his attention to agriculture, with his bold Farm for Business programme to help the rural poor move from subsistence farming to selling what they grow in the market.

The Indonesian military then made a concerted attempt to smear the leader of the Catholic church in East Timor, Monsignor Martinho da Costa Lopes, who had expressed serious concerns of a famine because the conscripted subsistence farmers were unable to plant their crops in time for the next harvest.

Even in a subsistence context, looking beyond staples to cash crops and other produce can be hugely beneficial.

The average Roman senator was worth "only" about 5m, while the majority of the population lived on something closer to subsistence level; a single sestertius could buy two loaves of bread.

Diversification does not necessarily require smallholder farmers to fundamentally change the way they live by abandoning subsistence crops like beans altogether.