subsistence

How To Use subsistence In A Sentence

• Mr Mugabe can not fail to understand the consequence of redistribution of the country's most productive land to subsistence farmers.
• We will not be reduced to subsistence farming and exporting fish and chips if the banks leave. Times, Sunday Times
• They must not demand a very high cash outlay or demand a very high degree of risk thereby endangering subsistence.
• Their earnings brought them almost 30 percent more than the value of the subsistence provided by their former masters. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
• The two bands became docile subsistence farmers on submarginal agricultural land.
• Fishing is also of major importance, while around 70 percent of the population depend on subsistence agriculture.
• Alone among the New Deal agricultural agencies, they provided subsistence and operating credit for farmers.
• Others argue that the workshop was only carried out to increase municipal authority over contested forest areas, and the resulting municipal policy failed to reflect the needs of families who require fuelwood for subsistence.
• The ever-increasing flow of scientific and technological advances is of little significance to a rural population living at or below subsistence level.
• By contrast, there was a general shift from subsistence agriculture to the production of cash crops and the provision of services.