Sentence examples for time for subsistence from inspiring English sources
August is the driest month in the Amazon River basin — the best time for subsistence farmers and owners of large tracts of land to clear acreage for agriculture by burning off forests that sequester carbon dioxide and replenish oxygen in our overcarbonized atmosphere.
In rural areas of no electricity like this community, the total time available for subsistence working is governed by daylight hours, usually about 11 h in this season (sunrise at about 7 00 am and sunset at about 18 30).
QUESTION FROM BENJAMIN BARRETT: Do societies that have limited free time (for example, subsistence farming-based communities whose survival depends on their productivity) have the same notion of procrastination as those of use who live in more modern economies?
An interesting finding is that trees that are cut for charcoal contain on average four times more biomass than trees for subsistence.
Egyptians have caught migrant birds for subsistence since the time of the pharoahs, but in recent years the intensity of the trapping and shooting has escalated to unprecedented levels according to conservationists I interviewed.
Robert Frost: A Life, by Jay Parini (Owl/Holt, $16), is a sympathetic look at the cantankerous New England poet who gave up college (he was a better Latinist than Pound or Eliot) for subsistence farming and part-time teaching.
The agreement, concluding several years of negotiations, for the first time establishes quotas on how many bears can be hunted for subsistence by native tribes in Siberia and Alaska.
Majority (91%) of the households interviewed in all the communities reported that illegal collection of fuelwood for subsistence and income generation which most at times involved cutting down of trees was the major cause of forest degradation in the FGR.
In modern times they live in small villages and depend primarily on agriculture for subsistence, supplemented by fishing and hunting.
The Peuhl depend on their animals for subsistence, and livestock need a lot of water.
The International Whaling Commission approved extending bowhead whaling quotas for Eskimos for subsistence hunting.
