Sentence examples for whose subsistence from inspiring English sources

Those groups, for example, whose subsistence base was fishing or gathering, had the smallest houses and most dispersed settlement patterns in the area.

Visiting anthropologists found cave-dwelling food-gatherers whose subsistence was based on the wild yam; other foods included tadpoles, frogs, small fish, crabs, grubs, palm fruit, and wild bananas.

The contrast between the indigenous people on the Beagle, who had been Europeanised in their customs, and the local indigenous people, whose subsistence depended on hunting and gathering in the cold waters and woods of the region, demonstrated to him how adaptable human beings were".

This includes the bones of people whose subsistence was based on freshwater fish, and pottery in which fish was cooked.

1 In brief, the study population was composed mainly of persons of the Ra-glai ethnic minority, whose subsistence is based on forest farming and products exploitation.

Those whose normal subsistence is undermined, for example because their homestead is made insecure and those who are active conflict participants, appear to be at increased risk of being infected.

As it was the case for the nitrifying bacteria, the OMW addition enhanced the denitrifier's subsistence, whose number increased correlatively with the added OMW quantity.

Our study showed that women whose occupation was subsistence farming or housewife were at a higher risk of having perinatal death as an adverse outcome compared to salaried women.

The Tiv are subsistence farmers whose main crops are yams, millet, and sorghum, all of which are eaten as porridge or are made more palatable by their combination in sauces and stews.

"The government came and registered our names but we don't know what will happen next," says Upenji Seletino, 73, a subsistence farmer whose modest plot is rammed with cassava, maize and beans.

Others are students who have dropped out of university in the hope of making a quick fortune and subsistence farmers whose land has not produced a crop in years.