| At present, however, only about 10 percent of the nation's agricultural land is under cultivation, and subsistence farming is all but dead. |
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| Most people support themselves through subsistence farming, growing rice, yams, cassava, bananas, and palm oil nuts. |
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| In Belize, they are the poorest of the poor, most living by subsistence farming. |
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| We lived from subsistence farming, growing sweet potatoes, corn, some sugarcane, and ginger. |
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| And the economy moved from a mixture of cotton planting and subsistence farming to the unalloyed growing, buying, and selling of cotton. |
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| Nevertheless, many of the former hunter-gatherers are still reliant on subsistence farming and making craftwork for tourists. |
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| Zambian vernacular architecture is integrated with nature in an agricultural society of subsistence farming. |
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| A small coffee industry and subsistence farming counterbalance the poverty of the land reserves. |
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| We exported coffee, cocoa beans and wood, and had subsistence farming operations growing other food. |
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| A large part of the population resorts to subsistence farming and migration to make ends meet, with mixed consequences for women. |
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| The country's agricultural system is based on subsistence farming using traditional techniques. |
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| Many farmers are in local communities with a domestic, local market focus and often practice a large measure of subsistence farming. |
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| In Mozambique, over two-thirds of the population live in rural areas and practice subsistence farming. |
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| Many practice agropastoralism, and some depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood. |
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| Whilst rural households rely on subsistence farming, the tendency over the years has been to have at least one member engaged in wage employment. |
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| Agriculture is primarily subsistence farming and animal husbandry. |
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| Most food needed to be imported, although the majority of the population was engaged in subsistence farming and fishing. |
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| They had subsistence farming from the land but really their resource was from Lake Winnipeg, what they call their great inland sea. |
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| It is one of the poorest countries in the world, landlocked with poor transport facilities and most of the population living on subsistence farming. |
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| Settled by the mutineers from the Bounty and their Tahitian companions in 1789, residents of Pitcairn have relied on fishing and subsistence farming for their survival. |
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| Upwards of 80 per cent of its people survive on subsistence farming, and in terms of generally accepted economic measurement they live in poverty. |
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| In this type of subsistence farming rice was the most important crop and several of the 92 recognized rice varieties were planted in new swiddens. |
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| Very early on, small scale and family-owned cheese dairies started operating on the island, for subsistence farming. |
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| The transformation from mere subsistence farming 45 years ago to commercial production of milk has had a multiplier effect in the region, significantly improving the quality of life in the society. |
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| But many small farmers have reverted to subsistence farming. |
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| For most, the only future is subsistence farming. |
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| Asembo is a rural, subsistence farming community in Nyanza. |
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| The main occupation is subsistence farming. |
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| The main economic activity is subsistence farming. |
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| President Mugabe should never forget the economic damage that will be done to Zimbabwe's economy if land redistribution simply means the land goes back to subsistence farming in small blocks. |
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| This trend is the result of families' mass movement to the cities and away from subsistence farming in developing countries and also of better education and improved opportunities for women in developed countries. |
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| In our continent, where the majority of the population still earns a living from subsistence farming, the root of the problem lies in decades of neglect of agriculture. |
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| An estimated 700,000 people fled the capital to take refuge with friends and family in rural parts of the country, where most people live off of subsistence farming. |
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| This is why even emerging countries such as India, where millions of farmers are living on subsistence farming, are hostile to tariff liberalization and are demanding their right to food sovereignty. |
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| Reports indicated an alarming erosion of the right to food as a result of forced displacement, reduced access to subsistence farming and the destruction of natural resources. |
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| The economy is predominantly rural and relies chiefly on subsistence farming. |
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| As was normal at the time, subsistence farming was the occupation of most people. |
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| Many people on Espiritu Santo still rely on subsistence farming for their food. |
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| Born in a small Transkei village of a migrant mine-worker father and a mother who did subsistence farming to help the family survive, he had to walk 13 miles to school. |
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| Secondly, emigration from rural areas reduces destructive subsistence farming techniques, such as improperly implemented slash and burn agriculture. |
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| East Timor now has revenue from offshore oil and gas reserves, but little of it has gone to develop villages, which still rely on subsistence farming. |
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| Subsistence farming is practiced to satisfy family or local needs alone, with little left over for transport elsewhere. |
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