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and scattered fields, resulting in mostly subsistence farming with outdated technologies.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and scattered fields, resulting in mostly subsistence farming with outdated technologies.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


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


CHB: Coach House Books · 23 August 2022 English

"John Lorinc’s incisive analysis in Dream States reminds us that the search for urban utopia is not new. Throughout the book, Lorinc underscores the fact that a gamut of urban …

escape from the grinding poverty of rural subsistence farming – transformed cities into sites of migration


AIC: Agricultural Institute of Canada · 3 July 2022 English

Help us celebrate the one-year-out mark from the next Women Deliver Conference (WD2023) and be the first to hear from the Government of Rwanda, the WD2023 Advisory Group, the Women …

in an area where most families survive on subsistence farming and poverty levels are high. She asked to


Wilson Center Canada · 27 May 2022 English

Denmark is the Vice President of Programs and Director of Studies; Senior Advisor to the Asia Program; and Senior Fellow in the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States …

would often correspond to local villagers’ subsistence farming needs (and are contrary to corporate interests)


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