Subsistence Farming

Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow food crops to meet the needs of themselves and their families on smallholdings. Subsistence agriculturalists target farm output for survival and for mostly local requirements, with little or no surplus. Planting decisions occur principally with an eye toward what the family will need during the coming year, and only secondarily toward market prices. Tony Waters writes: "Subsistence peasants are people who grow what they eat, build their own houses, and live without regularly making purchases in the marketplace." Despite the primacy of self-sufficiency in subsistence farming, today most subsistence farmers also participate in trade …

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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English

Since the year 2000, millions of hectares of land in the Global South have been acquired by foreign investors for large-scale agricultural projects, displacing and disrupting rural communities. Women are …

labour. Responsi- bilities for water, food, subsistence farming, and the gathering of fuel fall to women


NSP: New Society Publishers · 30 January 2024 English

A dominant, human-centered worldview has brought us to the brink of social, ecological, and climate collapse. Braiding poetic storytelling, deep cultural and climate justice analyses, and knowledge of Earth-centered cultures, …

inequality.5 Women more than men engage in subsistence farming and fuel and water collection. As droughts


Fraser Institute · 15 June 2023 English

For four decades during the latter half of the 20th century, Poland and its people were the subjects of a grand socio-economic experiment. Under the watchful eye of its Soviet …

and scattered fields, resulting in mostly subsistence farming with outdated technologies. Still, as Figure


Fraser Institute · 24 May 2023 English

For four decades during the latter half of the 20th century, Poland and its people were the subjects of a grand socio-economic experiment. Under the watchful eye of its Soviet …

and scattered fields, resulting in mostly subsistence farming with outdated technologies. Still, as Figure


NSP: New Society Publishers · 4 April 2023 English

Earth overshoot will end either by design or by disaster. Which future should we choose? Earth is in overshoot. The cumulative impact of 8 billion humans combined with the relentless …

tropical deforesta- tion. The increase in local subsistence farming accounted for another 33 percent. When forests


Wilson Center Canada · 30 January 2023 English

11 The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense, the U. [...] This …

many Africans are farmers, many of them in subsistence farming, it is important to incorporate their unique


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 16 January 2023 English

This report presents an evidence based and costed country roadmap for effective public interventions to transform agriculture and food systems in Ethiopia in a way that ends hunger, makes diets …

Strategy, dependence on rainfed agriculture and subsistence farming systems is a significant factor contributing


Agricultural Policy Research Networks · 22 December 2022 English

On the other hand, modernist models of youth employment posit that interest and participation of youths in agriculture and agribusiness can be cultivated through deliberately targeted and tailored policies and …

Agropreneurs suburb to Ibadan Metropolis. Subsistence farming is still face challenges in the acquisition


TEEB: The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity · 22 September 2022 English

The overall aim of the study is to provide a comprehensive comparison of natural capital, in the form of agricultural and forestry production, ecosystem services, social capital, including networks, policies …

land production is largely characterized by subsistence farming, with low levels of technology and limited Comments SNA Crops Yes Agriculture Including subsistence farming and shamba Pollination Yes Agriculture Seen Small-scale farmers Settlement across the No No Subsistence farming; highly connected timber forest and pastoralists


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 September 2022 English

In the nineteenth century, drug consumption permeated French society to produce a new norm: the chemical enhancement of modern life. French citizens empowered themselves by seeking pharmaceutical relief for their …

into how to transform Algeria’s existing subsistence farming into capitalist agricultural production


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