Sentence examples for their subsistence farms from inspiring English sources

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.

For the developing world rural poor which comprise about 67% of those living below a dollar a day, food price increases often increase income as their subsistence farms become economic while for the urban poor food price increases are disastrous.

The mountain tribes had been all but ignored during the 400 years that the Ottoman Empire controlled Syria, left to their subsistence farming in villages consisting of small stone hovels.

The region is a prime source for Asian medical herbs and for matsutake and morel mushrooms, which are picked by villagers for export, offering badly needed cash income to supplement their subsistence farming and possibilities for sustainable enterprises in the future.

Article 22 provides training, tools, and new designs that artisans cast, drill, polish and finish to grow their businesses and earn income beyond their subsistence farming livelihoods.

"In six to eight weeks they can double their yearly income harvesting giant nettle without interfering with their seasonal subsistence farming," McCallum boasts.

Amazingly, all confirm a unified story--an economy in collapse, widespread violations of minimum wage and all social protection laws, small farmers forced from their land, subsistence farming replaced by African palm and the jobs created in maquila zones dwarfed by the numbers forced to leave ancestral lands and travel to cities already jammed.

On the banks of the great rivers and in zones between the forest and the savanna live tribes who gain their subsistence from farming and fishing.

Their life of subsistence farming, hunting and fishing was not easy, but it was at least their own.

Majority of the households earn their living from subsistence farming, few are engaged in fishing and small-scale trading.

Now, Cyclone Ivan has devastated crops in areas where most families make their living from subsistence farming.