"I was an agriculture extension agent in Panama, and I lived and worked in a subsistence farming community with farmers who mainly grew subsistence crops," she says.
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"It's a subsistence crop, not a cash crop," he said.
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Subsistence crops like corn and beans are all but dying.
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When whites came, they, of course, also hunted for subsistence.
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This subsistence life style depends on a lot of money.
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"The Tribe was nomadic, and its members hunted game for subsistence".
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For Gabriel it is the meagre subsistence that his salary affords.
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People here rely on subsistence farming and minimal trade with Tibet.
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We are not going to abandon our culture or subsistence lifestyles.
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The Muslim Assamese are abjectly poor; they are relegated to subsistence
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Many people here are subsistence farmers and can't afford irrigation systems.
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Was working an unskilled job for subsistence pay a positive outcome?
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Was working a menial job for subsistence pay a positive outcome?
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"They were into subsistence farming — 'back to the land,' " he says.
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A quarry provides some jobs, but the backbone is subsistence farming.
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Many of them are subsistence farmers with negligible access to state services.
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Most people on Ambae live a subsistence lifestyle by farming and fishing.
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This is an agricultural society, where nearly everyone is a subsistence farmer.
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The island's main economic activities are tourism and subsistence-oriented local commerce.
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Mr. Jo often nods to Korean food's history as a subsistence cuisine.
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Mr. Amin has returned to his old life as a subsistence farmer.
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In my home, subsistence provides about 85033 percent of my family's sustenance.
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Much of it's small-scale subsistence looting; some of it's criminally industrial.
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Perhaps most importantly for subsistence farmers like Macharia, worm juice comes worry-free.
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They operate in a near-cashless, subsistence economy, anchored by fishing and hunting.
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It allows various indigenous groups around the world to hunt whales for "subsistence".
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But mechanised commercial farms do not provide as many jobs as subsistence agriculture.
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His insistence that capitalism drives workers' living standards to subsistence level is absurd.
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Importantly, indigenous Alaskans will still be allowed to harvest the seas for subsistence.
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The Inuit subsistence hunting in Greenland is extremely different from commercial seal hunting.
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"This is an area where there are subsistence farmers and herders," Sampat says.
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Subsistence farming is the main source of livelihood for 84% of the households.
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Many residents in the area are subsistence farmers, growing mostly corn and beans.
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A land of subsistence farming, a practice left over from an earlier century.
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He hoped to improve on his life of subsistence farming in impoverished Bamian.
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The poachers include subsistence hunters, rebel groups and even American-allied African militaries.
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The rhythms of the day are dictated by subsistence within this natural bounty.
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They are the world's last subsistence whalers, and as fishermen they are fierce.
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We plow a chunk of cash into subsistence benefits, and people are still poor.
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They often get stuck with below-subsistence wages and inadequate help from welfare states.
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A ravaged natural environment is one, high-handed land grabs from subsistence farmers another.
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If you're a subsistence farmer in Kenya, the situation is already much more dire.
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Oil revenues could transform Somalia's economy, where many people rely on subsistence livestock farming.
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But $27 is still subsistence, and the cash grants go to only 46,000 households.
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On the land, her group wants to revive the tradition of community subsistence farming.
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Southerners in particular rely on subsistence farming, on lands that have now been flooded.
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Theirs is a criminal subsistence economy; even many of their leaders are barely solvent.
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Since seizing Arnolds Farm in 2000, the village's families have lived as subsistence farmers.
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And the strength required for physically demanding jobs in fishing, construction and subsistence farming.
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They landed on Kodiak in an effort to increase subsistence and recreational hunting opportunities.
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That is good money in rural Myanmar, where most farmers earn a subsistence income.
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Producers pare back hiring and production to levels they see as a subsistence level.
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Under local control, research shifted toward protecting animals that are vital to Inupiat subsistence.
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Karukoski portrays this side of Laaksonen's existence as one of under-the-radar subsistence.
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For the developing world, where most people in Africa are still subsistence farmers, holy smokes.
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And the subsistence farmers often don't have enough money to pay for pesticides, says Arinaitwe.
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Subsistence maize farmers recovering from last year's El Nino-triggered drought are also at risk.
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Most land is held customarily with oral agreements between subsistence farmers and land-owning chiefs.
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However, reallocating land is a thorny issue for Ethiopians, many of whom are subsistence farmers.
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For some who depended on the rations for subsistence, the results were fatal, she said.
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Snowmobiles and motorboats are allowed for subsistence hunting and fishing in Alaska's huge wilderness areas.
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Even now, hunting and salmon fishing are not hobbies but subsistence for thousands of Alaskans.
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Mr. Clerveaux was a subsistence farmer, growing corn, potatoes and beans to feed his family.
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Her parents are subsistence farmers, living quiet lives growing just enough food for their family.
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On both continents, many families depend on subsistence farming and a minuscule supply of livestock.
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The hidden danger here becomes apparent once we go past a certain point of subsistence.
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Black men had largely been banished from lucrative skill trades and relegated to subsistence jobs.
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Its economy, long based on subsistence farming and fishing, now includes a modest tourism industry.
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This population would generally be subsistence farmers and can afford "very little," the chart says.
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But she couldn't help trying to figure out a financial model above subsistence for Alvarado.
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To protect their crops, subsistence farmers had to sleep in their fields at harvest time.
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Rural and poor communities, such as subsistence farmers or minorities, are usually worst hit by typhoons.
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They embodied the realities of subsistence farming and the strength of the individuals who do it.
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Subsistence farmers have often been obliged by rebel groups, paramilitaries and crime gangs to plant coca.
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At the moment, the focus of all this activity is very much on improving subsistence agriculture.
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However, in order to invest, working people need more than subsistence, unstable wages and inadequate benefits.
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They will earn subsistence-level wages just as the vast majority of humans have throughout history.
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Informal subsistence mining is common and is treated differently from illegal extraction conducted by armed groups.
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Eighty percent of the nation still relies on agriculture, mostly rain-fed pastures or subsistence smallholdings.
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This is down to the extent of Zimbabwe's informal economy, and the prevalence of subsistence farmers.
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Yes, rapid growth has lifted tens of millions from poverty and the curse of subsistence farming.
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The Gwich'in people live a subsistence lifestyle, depending on the caribou for 80% of our diet.
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Most people in the area were subsistence farmers, cultivating wheat in winters and corn in summers.
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But conservationists worry that the whalers are no longer hunting for subsistence, but for commercial sale.
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He suggested that islanders were no longer hunting merely for subsistence, but also for commercial purposes.
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Not to mention the idea of traditional subsistence hunting, and the value of knowing your clothes.
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At the same time, the caribou multiplied, the tundra survived and Iñupiaq culture and subsistence thrived.
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"Agriculture has to be turned from subsistence to commercial and export-oriented farming," Jallow told Reuters.
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Its figure includes state land and plots tilled by black subsistence farmers in the old homelands.
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Whether for fish or crops, his community of subsistence farmers relies on nature's resources for their survival.
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"Never before have there been so many threats to the cultural subsistence of the Garifuna," said Miranda.
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I take as much as I can carry, thankful for a subsistence that isn't grilled monster meat.
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Even the larger stipends are still below the 240 dinars that economists call a subsistence monthly wage.
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The term "public charge" refers to a person who is primarily dependent on the government for subsistence.
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The responsibility of farming has fallen on her four unemployed children who produce for subsistence, she says.
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Prior to the discovery of oil in 2628, Venezuela's average income per capita was marginally above subsistence.
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Unfortunately, many nations routinely omit small-scale commercial and subsistence fisheries, focusing only on large, industrial operations.
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At this level of aggregation, the economy is in fact not that different from the subsistence farmer.
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The idea regards Iranian subsistence as a cornerstone of economic policy, allowing it to flout Western demands.
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Although the region's indigenous people today reside in villages, subsistence hunting remains central to diet and culture.
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" She predicted the plan "would smother vital wild salmon streams with sediment and irreparably harm subsistence hunters.
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"Those who lose most are those with subsistence earnings," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by telephone.
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But seriously: I don't recommend this mass-market subsistence porridge for the texture (wet) or flavor (wet).
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Our subsistence way of life is threatened by nuclear wastewater spills, shifting fishing cycles, and salinated land.
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That could be the most effective way to reach the people who endure life at subsistence level.
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But population growth and the demands of industrialization overwhelmed the ecological base that subsistence farmers depended on.
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This drove people to wage-earning work, which in turn accelerated the disappearance of the subsistence farm.
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Subsistence communities are a good place to test it, since no other mental-health services are in place.
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About half of Guatemala's population of 17 million is indigenous, many of them subsistence bean and maize farmers.
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These lands provide everything we need to live and thrive —through subsistence hunting and gathering, clothing and more.
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Drilling in vital wildlife habitat and subsistence lands in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and National Petroleum Reserve.
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Before Alaska, I lived in Denver, NYC, and Boston, and had never heard of subsistence hunting or fishing.
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"The fund helps farmers, especially subsistence farmers who rely 100 percent on agriculture for their livelihoods," Perez said.
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Consider, for example, that two billion people have risen from subsistence-level poverty in the past few decades.
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Armed with a revised census, the hunters convinced the IWC to grant them an annual subsistence harvest quota.
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For centuries, life in the area has been based on subsistence farming and shepherding goats, sheep and cows.
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Reduced yields of coffee and subsistence crops like corn and beans could significantly increase food insecurity and malnutrition.
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The game Agricola, in which you play a medieval subsistence farmer, is famously complex and rewarding to master.
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It's very, very good for people who want to sell their time for less than subsistence wages online.
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They&aposre the key elements that will ensure your survival, your subsistence, and your ability to truly enrich.
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I am saddened at times by the palpable stress of those living on the edge of economic subsistence.
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Eritrea has resources—gold, copper, zinc, and potash—but the majority of the population depends on subsistence farming.
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This does not mean we must return to hunting and gathering or subsistence farming to protect our hearts.
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More broadly, the foundation is aiming at the social and economic problems that gang up on subsistence farmers.
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Hardest hit are small-scale and subsistence farmers as they largely depend on rain-fed crops for their livelihoods.
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Environmental groups oppose the mine, as do many native residents who rely on the fish as a subsistence food.
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It says people have been killed by then, often when subsistence farmers come across the animals in their fields.
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On Wednesday, thousands of subsistence farmers are expected to come to capital city Asuncion to lobby for agrarian reform.
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Bedolla emerged just before dawn, accompanied by his wife, headed for a grueling day picking grapes for subsistence wages.
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Most of Papua New Guinea's seven million people live subsistence existences in isolated mountain villages and scattered tropical islands.
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He banned the sale of small parcels of land in order to restrict subsistence farming, then instituted lifetime serfdom.
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On a medieval farm, an entire family would have to work to eke out a subsistence living for themselves.
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Autarkic subsistence farming had to be replaced by specialization, the division of labor and coordination on a massive scale.
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Many people in Rampara Kisana and Patrampur are subsistence farmers, and do not know exactly how much they earn.
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But subsistence hunting by indigenous people does not cause whale populations to collapse, said John Hocevar of Greenpeace USA.
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This way of life and subsistence are increasingly under threat as the state makes its big push into mining.
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But climate change has prolonged and deepened those periods of drought, forcing many peasants to abandon their subsistence farms.
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The researchers found that the money, far from being squandered on vice, went largely to subsistence and legitimate enterprise.
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Second—and equally pragmatic—improving the ability of smallholder farmers to move beyond subsistence farming helps elevate whole communities.
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You'll do everything from water and waste management, to subsistence farming and ranching, to gas ventilation and power generation.
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Less than a fifth of the population has access to electricity, and almost 85 percent lives on subsistence farming.
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What about the hundreds of millions brought out of subsistence living and raised to, or above, the middle class?
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Last year, the Yurok tribe had to cancel commercial and subsistence fishing altogether because of the lack of fish.
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"The land upon which Man of Aran depends for his subsistence—potatoes—has not even soil!" the intertitle read.
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Within the past several years, full-time work that pays a subsistence wage has been hard to come by.
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There are currently tens of millions of people in at least half a dozen subsistence-farming countries facing famine.
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Malawi relies heavily on rain-fed agriculture, and most of its maize is grown on small plots by subsistence farmers.
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Once grown centuries ago by the Incas, more Andean subsistence farming communities, particularly in Bolivia's highlands, are growing tarwi again.
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Campesinos and indigenous peoples make up 261.1 percent of corn producers in Mexico, most of whom engage in subsistence farming.
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But the study goes farther, proposing that the Tsimane people are more healthy because they've retained subsistence diets and lifestyles.
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That is a stretch for the area's subsistence farmers and labourers, but the school, which has 1,000 pupils, is full.
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The subsistence farmers she studied in Cuyo Cuyo, in Peru, planted as many as 20 fields scattered around the mountain.
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More than 95 percent engaged in subsistence farming to get by, and 87 percent lived on under $2 a day.
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Photo: Mikkel Høegh Post, Natural History Museum of DenmarkBack in 1990, subsistence hunters in Greenland gave a skull to scientists.
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By contrast, many Pakistanis who migrated to the U.K. in the post-war era were subsistence farmers and manual laborers.
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Flora says their meager earnings as subsistence farmers would make it impossible to care for two children in quick succession.
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A lower-income American in Detroit isn't as vulnerable as a subsistence farmer in Botswana – not by a long shot.
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For my father's family, the dreams fulfilled by this house had meant a climb from bare subsistence to the middle.
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The inhabitants are mainly subsistence farmers and herders from the Fulani tribe who trade at Mubi's regionally prominent cattle market.
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Plunging caribou populations linked to rising temperatures and development are threatening the food security of subsistence hunters in Alaska's interior.
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Ziegelman and Coe draw on a range of primary sources to produce grim pictures of subsistence diets across the country.
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The spill destroyed critical subsistence habitat, destroyed the rich sea life and wildlife, and it destroyed our thriving local economy.
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But either as subsistence hunting or later as sport hunting, it's always been a very powerful narrative in American life.
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About 85 percent of the country survives through subsistence farming, and less than a fifth of the population has electricity.
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The population is also largely reliant on subsistence farming, making it vulnerable to natural disasters and conflicts, the IRC said.
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More so than any other Americans, Alaskans rely on subsistence harvests of marine resources to meet their daily nutritional needs.
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The new location was selected in part because it enables the community to continue its subsistence lifestyle and cultural traditions.
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The family, like many in the northern Kunduz province, make a difficult living subsistence farming wheat, rice and mung beans.
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Much of the rural population relies on subsistence farming in a high-mountain environment that is vulnerable to climate change.
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Most people were subsistence farmers: there wasn't enough flat land to grow a cash crop, but they farmed the slopes.
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I thought I was trying to understand how millions of North Americans had started asking God for more than subsistence.
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They are subsistence farmers: The community we met with didn't need much from the outside world, they were pretty self-sustaining.
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The government's plan to reallocate land near the capital proved a thorny issue in a country where many are subsistence farmers.
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There are signs that China's is indeed improving its main form of poor relief, which is called "subsistence guarantee", or dibao.
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Of course, plenty of poverty remains—most people in Myanmar are still subsistence farmers—but the region's economic trends are promising.
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Typical rainfall patterns during El Niño years, via NOAA A full 80 percent of Ethiopians are subsistence farmers or livestock herders.
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Other laid-off workers said they had to return to their farms, where they could hope for little more than subsistence.
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But many people turned to subsistence farming to support their families, even educated people like Abdulrahman, an engineer and family friend.
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And if you don't do any of those things, then you only get subsistence-level food stamps and living-quarter assistance.
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Most of the tens of millions of farmers work on a subsistence basis and live on less than $2 a day.
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Government formalization efforts are meant to expand labor protections, safeguard the environment and collect more taxes and royalties from subsistence miners.
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The CDC report stresses the importance of being culturally sensitive when addressing the issue in areas where subsistence hunting is prevalent.
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The deal is only a few years old and balances oil development with the protection of subsistence resources and the environment.
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That means that three smaller types of fishing—subsistence, recreational, and artisanal—simply weren't included in the global database for catches.
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Mauritania is particularly susceptible to the changing climate because 90% of agriculture there is for subsistence, so crop success is everything.
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This has entailed maintaining them in subsistence-level lives without proactively thinking about how to help them expand their human potential.
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Rose Achieng used to work as a subsistence farmer and "sugar cane crusher" on other people's land in Migori County, Kenya.
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Its subsistence on quickly disposable labor and the ongoing effort to suppress exactly how dangerous the game is to that workforce.
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As in the Apple and Gabriel plays, food is an anchor, grounding abstract and fanciful talk in the reality of subsistence.
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In the 1980s thousands of Guatemalans, the majority Mayan subsistence farmers, were similarly forced to flee violence in their home country.
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Being a wild-animal herder is a good job if you are naturally restless; subsistence farming is a far tamer occupation.
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Togo, which lies between Ghana and Benin, is one of the world's poorest countries, with many people surviving on subsistence farming.
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Alaskans are not just accustomed to hard-frozen winters, they depend on them for essential transportation, subsistence hunting, industry and recreation.
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A "public charge" is someone that the United States deems likely to be primarily dependent on the federal government for subsistence.
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Under guidance put in place in 1999, the term is defined as someone who is "primarily dependent" on government for subsistence.
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Mr. Browne, a father of seven children, is one of more than three million Liberians who depend on farming for subsistence.
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But they can use the revenue, as the SDF does currently and ISIS before them, to support a subsistence state apparatus.
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The rumors traveled across a region that is home to India's impoverished indigenous tribes living on subsistence agriculture and manual labor.
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A story about the department's origins has become a kind of creation myth for the borough itself: How Oil Saved Subsistence.
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We depend on a healthy environment to feed our families, and to sustain our culture and our subsistence way of life.
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Unlike most previous waves of immigrants to Israel, who often arrived well-schooled and credentialled, most Ethiopian Jews had been subsistence farmers.
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An outright default would make it far more difficult to export oil, and thus to feed Venezuelans even at today's subsistence level.
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Humans domesticated themselves as well as their crops and animals, creating space for the drudgery of subsistence agriculture and oppressive political hierarchies.
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" In his book The Divide, he argues that precolonial agricultural societies in Africa and India were "quite content" with a "subsistence lifestyle.
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EPA eviscerates the regulation's direct benefits by focusing only on a small subset of mercury reduction benefits associated with subsistence fishing communities.
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An international moratorium on commercial whaling was established in the 1980s, but indigenous whaling for subsistence and cultural reasons was still allowed.
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In 2001, President Robert Mugabe introduced laws to more equitably distribute land between black subsistence farmers and white Zimbabweans of European ancestry.
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Today, the Bristol Bay fishery supports local subsistence fishing, commercial fishing fleets and guides and outfitters that host thousands of sports fishermen.
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Over the years, the quota has increased to meet the community's subsistence needs, and the bowhead whale population has grown in step.
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Effective social programs provide access to good nutrition, clean and safe shelter and a subsistence income, which are critical to avoiding disease.
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Patreon isn't affording luxurious lifestyles, but simply enabling altgame makers to continue their work, sometimes at little more than a subsistence level.
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There are hundreds of initiatives to mitigate the problem, including finding better farming methods and other sources of income for subsistence farmers.
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Agricultural towns in Venezuela's interior have sunk into subsistence, as the collapse of the road system and gasoline shortages decimated domestic trade.
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There are over 1 million children living without their parents because they had to go to another country to make subsistence money.
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In a country where over 80 percent of the population relies on subsistence agriculture, that is a problem with big implications for hunger.
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The Twaweza survey said in a country where 1183 percent of the population rely on subsistence farming, some families have begun skipping meals.
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To break its monopoly on providing subsistence to Venezuelans would be a huge symbolic victory for Mr Guaidó and his government-in-waiting.
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By investing in soil research, microcredit and logistics, it hopes to turn subsistence farmers into commercial growers—and buyers of its phosphate fertiliser.
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In the Arctic, life remains tied to the land and sea; subsistence hunting has formed the basis of the people's culture for centuries.
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The ox and working dairy cow have almost disappeared since tractors and mass milk exploitation replaced old fashioned subsistence farming practices in Spain.
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In Quilombo Cachoeira Porteira where Souza, 43, lives, the quilombolas eke out a living by harvesting nuts, and through subsistence farming and fishing.
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The face of the country may be changing quickly, but in 2006 two-thirds of the population was still engaged in subsistence agriculture.
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In the case of subsistence farmers like Mustefa Hafiz, our assistance is helping combat soil erosion, strengthen farm yields, and install irrigation pumps.
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The epigram seems to suggest that a coal plant could buy its own coal—like a subsistence farmer eating the food he grows.
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Although this did not affect subsistence hunting by the Inupiaq, the renewal of their quotas became entangled with the debate over commercial whaling.
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In the social structure that Andersson sketches out for Imperator, slavery is what allows these ancient societies to substantially escape subsistence-level economies.
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Most Pakistanis in my village and in thousands of such villages live in grueling poverty, living off subsistence agriculture and working as laborers.
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Many families supplement their income with subsistence farming and animal husbandry, as well as the not inconsiderable remuneration sent from relatives working abroad.
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For already-struggling communities - which often scrape by on subsistence ranching and gasoline smuggling - the needs of returning Wayuu are hard to meet.
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The Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) laid the groundwork for expanded export agroindustry at the expense of subsistence farmers.
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Côté seemed to hint that subsistence hunting, which potentially claims thousands of caribou each year, and isn't always reported, could play a factor.
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Caribou are a key part of Nunavimmiut culture and diet, and subsistence hunting can be preferable to paying high prices for imported meat.
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Subsistence farmers have struggled to adapt to the loss of their traditions and the "very urban, very organized" layout of planned towns, Leon said.
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More than 90% of land bought and redistributed by the state lies fallow, much of it turned over to subsistence farming or squatter camps.
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And if you take more money out of richer people's pockets, you'll make sure the consumption squeeze doesn't push people below the subsistence level.
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In the episode you really see the whole spectrum of fishing, from that subsistence level all the way up to these giant industrial ships.
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Studies of the impact of agricultural tariffs in sub-Saharan Africa suggest that they encourage subsistence farming rather than prompting export industries to grow.
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Here in the U.S., our Arctic waters are crucial to the Alaska Native villages along the coast that depend on them for subsistence hunting.
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The security threats, residents say, have kept many from farming land where they once cultivated subsistence crops, or from traveling farther afield to fish.
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The agency received multiple reports of dead seals on Monday in Norton Sound, a Bering Sea inlet and subsistence hunting area for Indigenous communities.
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Impact: Many villagers in Mozambique work in machambas — farm fields handed down from the nation's former colonial power, Portugal — and many are subsistence farmers.
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"In a warming Arctic, access to our subsistence foods is shrinking and becoming more hazardous to hunt and fish," they say in the report.
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When those looking for jobs greatly exceed the jobs available, then there are always many who are desperate to work, even for subsistence wages.
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Other programs seek to make the civil service more professional, help subsistence farmers diversify their crops and increase yields and connect regional electric grids.
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Now I'm pushing 50, and am aging out of a workforce that for the most part gave me a subsistence-level existence at best.
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That put the government on a collision course with the Baka, who depend on the forest for subsistence, hunting boars, antelope, and, occasionally, elephants.
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If the average family spent one-third of its income on food, then three times the subsistence food budget provided an estimated poverty threshold.
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The case highlights the dramatic gap between the privileged ruling class of Equatorial Guinea and much of the population, which thrives mainly on subsistence farming.
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They worked 14 to 16 hours a day with no access to basic amenities, and their wages were withheld, with only a subsistence allowance paid.
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Mwangangi plants just enough cowpeas and beans for her family's subsistence needs, as she has only three-quarters of an acre of land (0.3 hectares).
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Earlier this year, the government cut their subsistence payments from 65 to 38 pounds a week, in what campaigners said was "a gift" to exploiters.
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Under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, Gordon was allowed to harvest the polar bear for "subsistence or other purposes," but not in a wasteful manner.
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"We know the Arctic is a unique place of critical importance to many – including Alaska Natives who rely on the ocean for subsistence," Jewell said.
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"In no case may a people be deprived of its own means of subsistence," states the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
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Many residents of coastal communities in northern and western Alaska consume walrus and other marine mammals as part of subsistence hunting, or hunting for survival.
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Imagine for a moment, a stunning landscape of carved sandstone canyons dotted with ancient dwellings, peaceful forests and grasslands cherished for indigenous subsistence and ceremony.
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Yet in a dirt-poor country that relies too much on subsistence farming, too little is being done to plan for a post-oil economy.
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Critics say it will displace subsistence farmers, is at risk of inundation due to being built on a floodplain, and will cost more than planned.
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On an individual level, let us all return to organic farming, especially for subsistence farming....corporations should start doing today to fight the climate crisis?
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The law also applies to U.S. citizens on the high seas and protects the rights of Alaska Natives to hunt marine mammals for subsistence purposes.
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Mr. Fignole said the storm had hit Haiti just as farmers in the south were about to harvest plantains, a staple in their subsistence diet.
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When a developing country embraces manufacturing to propel itself away from agrarian subsistence, the work is invariably rote and exploitive and often even life-threatening.
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But GiveDirectly's introduction of a universal payment for whole villages over a long, long period, set at a level of basic subsistence, is truly historic.
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Nepal's flooded areas are the poorest parts of the country, where most families live in bare mud houses and rely on subsistence farming, he said.
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The beans are part of the institute's humanitarian efforts to help subsistence farmers find better ways to earn money and support themselves under better conditions.
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He came to see his commercial work—and the consumer culture it promotes—as part of the problem, and fantasized about becoming a subsistence farmer.
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The cultures of the Arctic were known for being quick to adopt new technology, but subsistence-hunting traditions remained at the heart of Inupiat life.
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In India, almost 103 million people in 170,000 villages live inside or on the fringes of forests, which they rely on for subsistence and income.
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The 17 million people who reside in the former homelands, a third of the population, are mostly subsistence farmers working tiny plots on communal land.
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So, when they learned of fruits they could grow and sell for cash, they jumped at the chance to leave the vicious cycle of subsistence farming.
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Sidumo, 47, is one of thousands of black South African subsistence farmers frustrated by faltering efforts to reform land policies shaped by centuries of white rule.
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Modern agriculture has replaced natural forests and the diverse crops of subsistence farms almost exclusively with a single apple variety: royal delicious, favored at the market.
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang was also visiting, heralding billions of investment dollars in Laos as the country works to transform itself from a subsistence agrarian economy.
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SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Carin, a 22-year-old subsistence farmer from Honduras, crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with her two sons late last year.
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Many farmers and growers are themselves battling for subsistence as global competition, tariff changes and world prices for crops such as tomatoes and olives have dropped.
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Soon they will be back to jeopardizing our traditional activities by lobbying Washington to list the animals we rely on for subsistence as threatened or endangered.
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"I was hoping to make a lot more money as an artist, so subsistence living was our only opportunity to have anything as artists," Adams reveals.
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The move could result in the loss of subsistence benefits for as many as four million poor, single adults over the next few years, experts say.
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But in a region where most agriculture is still for subsistence — relying on cutlass, hoe and a hope for rain — farming is a synonym for poverty.
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UNLIKE URBAN CENTERS, hill towns were built to be connected to the countryside, which provided each its particular raison d'être, from its subsistence to its commerce.
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The species are also protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, which makes it illegal for people to kill them aside from research or native subsistence.
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A poor country of mainly subsistence farmers, Burkina Faso has in recent years become the focus of a campaign by local insurgents and regional jihadi groups.
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OLAF had looked into possible abuse of Wojciechowski's travel and subsistence expenses from his time as a member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2016.
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In Palmeirante, a rural municipality in the state of Tocantins, subsistence farmer Ronivon Matias de Andrade blames expanding mega-farms for damaging a community water source.
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"Several species of seabirds are important cultural and subsistence resources, and as such seabird mortality events are both an ecological and societal concern for island residents."
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Goat milk is consumed by more people around the world than any other milk and has become a dairy staple for the poor and subsistence farmers.
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However, raising the productivity of subsistence farming, as in the Artibonite valley, will also improve nutrition, an effect that some of the CCC's studies do not measure.
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Before the discovery of oil, Saudi Arabia was a desperately poor country, with a largely subsistence economy and depending on the annual pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina.
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A devout Communist, she rejected city life for an idyllic existence as a subsistence farmer on the outskirts of Norway's Trondheimsfjord region in Ørlandet with her husband.
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To the shrimp industry, the value of converting land that had previously not been profitable is huge, while the value of subsistence-level harvesting is comparatively small.
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When different species of birds arrived or left told villagers in his subsistence farming community what might be coming: a storm, a change of seasons, even flooding.
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The 17 million people who reside in the former homelands, a third of the population, are mostly subsistence farmers working tiny plots and subject to customary law.
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While there exists a rationale for people to keep hunting for subsistence, globalization has brought the illegal wildlife trade to a higher level in places like Djoum.
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Subsistence farmers from Angola to Kenya use slash-and-burn techniques to fertilise fields with ash and to make charcoal, which nearly 1bn Africans use to cook.
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Thirdly, everyone must set up a rural business to pay the sort of bills - internet, clothes, council tax – that cannot be met with a subsistence-only lifestyle.
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"This is not temporary migration to save for one's family - it is recurring participation in an overseas labor market to maintain a subsistence income," the report said.
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Some of these communities had trappings of modernity, such as running water and electricity, while others were subsistence farmers, and had never made contact with modern societies.
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The aim is to persuade Syrians and others that they have better prospects if they stay in Turkey, with increased EU funding for housing, schools and subsistence.
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The people hardest hit by the drought include most of the region's subsistence farmers, who constitute 25 to 40 percent of the population in Guatemala and Honduras.
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It is like a subsistence farmer leaving his field untilled and his belly unfilled, farming less than he'd like even as he eats less than he'd choose.
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The public charge rule is used to deny visa or green card applicants on the grounds that they may become primarily dependent on the government for subsistence.
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In principle, a government fixes the basic income at a level to allow subsistence but also to encourage enterprise and effort for the enjoyment of more prosperity.
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"The further you get from subsistence, the easier it is to ask fundamental questions like: What do I want, and how do I get it?" he writes.
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Born into a family of subsistence farmers, Bpaet's best hope, if he could make it through adolescence, is for a career in menial labor like his father.
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To address this problem, international agencies and NGOs like Avert work alongside the national government to promote crop diversity in subsistence farming and recycling of household waste.
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Article 203 provides training, tools, and new designs that artisans cast, drill, polish and finish to grow their businesses and earn income beyond their subsistence farming livelihoods.
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Unpaid pensions for rural families in such areas, where many households rely on subsistence farming, could be the difference between abject poverty and a more secure lifestyle.
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Elizabeth grew up speaking Tlingit and English and living at a subsistence level with her parents in Sitka, a coastal city in the archipelago of southeast Alaska.
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The disruption was keenly felt in Mexico, where subsistence farmers — some of the country's poorest people — were put out of business by soaring imports of American grain.
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Without these loans, they cannot buy the equipment needed to extricate themselves from subsistence farming — and their dependence on the party that has ruled Zimbabwe since independence.
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Still, there is no running water or electricity, nor is there much prospect for jobs or lives beyond dull subsistence on the handouts of foreign aid groups.
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Though most of the uprooted residents were subsistence farmers, some had produced enough that their displacement has cut food production and driven up prices in the region.
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The agency promotes the transformation of subsistence activities into sustainable, moneymaking initiatives and views these forests as a means to reduce rural poverty and empower local communities.
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When I asked Jacob Adams about the prospects of subsistence in a future without ice, his answer showed a mixture of cultural pride and a hunter's bravado.
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Mr. Morales's critics say that his government's fixation with a particular brand of Bolivia's diverse Indigenous culture — the highland subsistence farming communities — masks the country's growing cosmopolitanism.
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Subsistence farming isn't a relic of the past but a way of life made nearly impossible in Appalachia, not because of historical progress but because of dispossession.
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It's mostly subsistence farming, very little infrastructure, very little resources for the government, and very little capacity to build up even the basic health and education systems.
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It is also a statement about perseverance and about resilience and thus also…about achieving elegance in the very process of coping with the rudiments of subsistence.
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Vulnerable species like spider monkeys, which do not damage livelihoods, could be protected from hunting, whilst common and damaging crop-raiders like agoutis could be hunted for subsistence.
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The subsistence economy stands in stark contrast to the oil boom years when abundance seeped into the most remote reaches of what was once Latin America's richest nation.
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" THE RULEBOOK: IT PAYS TO BE INDEPENDENT "In the general course of human nature, A POWER OVER A MAN&aposs SUBSISTENCE AMOUNTS TO A POWER OVER HIS WILL.
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For example, in Nigeria, a project from the company Babban Gona is turning thousands of subsistence farmers into sustainable entrepreneurs with agronomy and business training and tailored loans.
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In the rural north of the country, subsistence farmers say it keeps them going for hours on end, a phrase echoed by sex workers in southern urban centers.
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Born in northwestern Thailand close to the Myanmar border, Chuy is a member of the Karen ethnic group, a hill tribe people who traditionally live a subsistence lifestyle.
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Paraiso's oyster fishermen fear the refinery might harm the Mecoacan lagoon just a few miles from the refinery site, and their main source of subsistence for several generation.
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Meanwhile, on a much, much smaller scale, subsistence farmers often clear trees so they can plant crops to feed their families and bring in small amounts of cash.
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The subsistence farmers of Nhampuepua, hardened by years of poverty, are already replanting what they can, using cuttings from the uprooted cassava plants that now litter the village.
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Business models focused on smallholder farmer inclusion and collaboration can open new markets to subsistence farmers and provide a dependable source of high-quality crops for food companies.
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When announcing its moratorium, the White House even cited the need to protect Arctic waters "which many Alaska Native communities rely (on) for subsistence use and cultural traditions".
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Residents live in rustic settlements along the muddy waters of the Atrato River and several of its tributaries, mostly surviving on fishing, subsistence farming and informal timber harvesting.
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These types of improvements for millions of people who live on the edge of subsistence mean the difference between a life of hopelessness and a life of dignity.
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If it creates a subsistence level where people are alive and sheltered and whatever, but there's still no way to better their lot, then that's not good enough.
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In these instances, guns are allowed for rural residents who need them for daily subsistence, hunters and those who can prove they need a gun for self-defense.
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But she doesn't stay dead, and when she comes back, she's a new, fiercely angry Bernie, awake to the indignities of the monochromatic, subsistence-level life she's led.
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These poverty figures take into account non-monetary forms of income — for poor families today and in the past, this is very important, particularly because of subsistence farming.
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Her parents live in Chalatenango, a rural province in the northern part of the country, and are subsistence farmers, growing corn and beans for the family's food supply.
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Although many well-fed Westerners romanticize small-scale farming in developing countries, in reality the conditions faced by subsistence farmers in Africa and South Asia are extremely harsh.
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Some exceptions will be made for indigenous peoples who practice subsistence agriculture and those who've received clearance by environmental authorities to use controlled burning to prevent larger fires.
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But about 80% of Zimbabwe's population -- rising to 90% in this area -- are subsistence farmers, meaning they rely on rain-fed agriculture to feed themselves and their families.
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For example, with the right support, subsistence farmers can use digital technology to build small- and medium-sized agribusinesses that drive GDP growth (not to mention improve nutrition).
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Caal Maquin's family is among the poorest in a village of very poor indigenous Guatemalans, where subsistence farming is getting harder as forests are razed for palm oil.
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Some 800,000 Afghans have been sent back from Pakistan and Iran, many of them left to rely on subsistence income in rural areas or low-paid work in towns.
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The basic idea is that subsistence farmers can purchase the right to financial compensation during low rainfall years through insurance programs sponsored by governments and climate-focused aid agencies.
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A recent report that Castellanos coauthored found that subsistence farmers, who harvest mostly to feed themselves, and indigenous people are the most affected by unpredictable rainfall and rising temperatures.
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Isn't it terribly ironic that African communities who hunted for subsistence were banned from hunting while Europeans like Ernest Hemingway came to Africa to shoot animals just for fun?
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mark Sultan Gersava grew up in poverty, one of 12 children of a slash-and-burn subsistence farmer in the Philippines province of Sultan Kudarat.
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Even as more activists have come to understand that political and civil freedom will struggle to survive in an unfair economic system, the focus has often been on subsistence.
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In 2013 the world's labour statisticians resolved to change the definition of the labour force, excluding people, such as subsistence farmers, who produce goods for their own family's use.
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TO THE Quechua-speaking subsistence farmers who live in the higher reaches of the Peruvian Andes, the sphagnum moss that upholsters the land near their villages is a nuisance.
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Prolonged dry spells since mid-2014, linked to the El Niño weather phenomenon, have battered subsistence farmers in Central America's "dry corridor" running through Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.
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This burden fell on folks who earn a bit more than subsistence wages, who took advantage of lax management and supervisory oversight to the detriment of Wells Fargo customers.
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It's still a rainforest town; a great chunk of the population are subsistence farmers, which leaves its youth navigating the line that can often separate technology and indigenous culture.
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That sweet, sweet government money wouldn't be subsistence fare, either, but a salary for simply existing, paid out by utopian societies that trundled along on the back of robots.
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Impoverished Malawi is periodically hit by food shortages as it relies heavily on rain-fed agriculture and most of its maize is grown on small plots by subsistence farmers.
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This was Marx's complaint about Speenhamland: a society with a basic income has no pressure to pay employees a good wage, because the bottom constraint, subsistence, has fallen away.
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The government says it is trying to end poverty in a country still known in the West for a devastating 1984 famine, where most people rely on subsistence farming.
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While rich in minerals, timber, fish and energy resources, most rural people live subsistence lives and annual per capita GDP is around $3,600 a year, according to the IMF.
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In the early years of the republic, a lot of the hunting had been subsistence-related hunting in America, but suddenly you had a birth of a leisure class.
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Researchers have found that nearly 83 percent of those attacked in East Timor in the past 11 years were subsistence fishing, using small canoes or wading in the water.
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Africa's "agripreneurs": A growing number of young, college-educated entrepreneurs are using apps and technology to increase yields and profits across a continent where most agriculture is still subsistence.
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Workers themselves receive subsistence incomes — hardly enough to pay back student loans they may have accrued while obtaining a degree or putting food on the table for their families.
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Carl Smith, a member of the indigenous Yupiaq tribe who lives in Akiak, Alaska, explained how warming has imperiled the subsistence hunting and fishing that his community depends on.
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As indigenous stakeholders, the Iñupiat have decades of experience working with industry — helping to implement regulations unique to Arctic conditions in order to protect the land and subsistence resources.
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It's innovation that has drastically increased the pace of transportation and communication, and ultimately it's innovation that has let most people do high-wage work rather than subsistence agriculture.
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It would be particularly damaging to people that rely on permafrost ecosystems for their food, and in Alaska, that burden may fall disproportionately on remote subsistence communities, including Indigenous groups.
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Missing sea ice cover exposes coastal villages to flooding from high waves during storms, and makes it harder for subsistence hunters to catch seals and other traditional sources of meat.
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M. goes hunting every year and we dipnet (subsistence fishing only AK residents can do), so we usually have plenty of moose, caribou, salmon, and halibut to last the year.
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"The power of population is so superior to the power of the Earth to produce subsistence .... premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race," Malthus wrote.
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By the early 1990s, fisheries were reporting declines of up to 90 percent, and many Indonesians who depend on subsistence fishing to survive suffered at the expense of unsustainable exploitation.
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"In the past many farmers relied on rain-fed agriculture to grow their food," said Edwin Liwonde, a subsistence farmer in the flat area, which is also prone to floods.
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The 17 million people who reside in the former homelands, a third of the population, are mostly subsistence farmers working tiny plots on communal land and subject to customary law.
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In the last 40 years, close to 20 percent of the Amazon rainforest has been cut down, and it will continue to force families to move away from subsistence farming.
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"The Troop Support Subsistence team is a dedicated group of employees who take pride in ensuring that deployed service members can experience an enjoyable holiday meal each Thanksgiving," he said.
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And it's also important to empower (and fund) indigenous communities to protect the wilderness areas they depend on for subsistence and their way of life, Venter and his colleagues say.
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Located on an island off the coast of Alaska, Shishmaref is sinking into the sea, making subsistence hunting and fishing dangerous and nearly impossible for the indigenous community based there.
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There was a great wave of dismay as early as 1798, when English cleric Thomas Malthus first claimed that a rising population would always keep wages close to subsistence level.
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They had expected that the snippets promoting activity would have taken root about 10,000 years ago, when humans began subsistence farming, a lifestyle that demands long hours of physical labor.
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It has since spread thousands of kilometers and "vulnerable" subsistence farmers in countries including Vietnam, Cambodia and Mongolia are particularly at risk, said the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO).
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The collegiate runners and subsistence farmers, whatever their age, harbored hearts that were endurance-ready, with the thinnest, springiest chamber walls and the lowest blood pressures among the human groups.
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Humans have been using this method for subsistence farming for the past 12,000 years, and it's still a popular practice in remote areas of South America, Africa and Southeast Asia.
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For the first sixty years of the nineteenth century—the period during which he began writing "Capital"—workers' wages in Britain and France were stuck at close to subsistence levels.
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In the small hamlet of Arviat, as in much of the Arctic territory of Nunavut, hunting is an important subsistence activity, but also a deep-seated part of Indigenous culture.
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For decades the Inupiaq, a Native Alaskan group living north of the Arctic Circle, have argued that international limits on subsistence whaling were not big enough to meet their food needs.
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The onslaught of the seasons pushes your farms into bare subsistence, the hordes of monsters that spawn from the portals start knocking down your walls, and your citizens lose their livelihoods.
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MUMBAI, India — On March 6, about 20183,000 subsistence farmers and landless peasants, many from impoverished indigenous tribes, marched to Mumbai from Nashik, a city 112 miles northeast of India's commercial capital.
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"For a subsistence farmer in a country like Ethiopia...being offered the equivalent of £150 ($208), cash in hand, could seem like an offer too good to turn down," it said.
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Currently, those legal permanent residents who are declared to be a "public charge," or primarily dependent on the government for subsistence, can be deported - but in practice, this is very rare.
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The official poverty measure was developed by the Social Security Administration's Mollie Orshansky in 210 and defined as three times the "subsistence food budget" for a family of a given size.
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That is to say the whims of a few rich people determine the life or death or living conditions or basic subsistence of hundreds of thousands if not millions of individuals.
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This means subsistence farmers will not have enough food to eat or sell in the coming months, and have no food supplies to see them through the lean time between harvests.
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They cannot follow caribou herds across the border for subsistence hunting, he said, and U.S. resident Gwitchin without passports or with criminal records for infractions like drunk driving cannot enter Canada.
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The tribes' legally recognized water right only allows the tribes to keep water in the rivers to benefit the fishes and wetlands that are the basis for their culture and subsistence.
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The FARC, which began as a peasant revolt in 1964, has also pledged to help subsistence farmers switch from illegal crops like coca, the raw material that makes cocaine, to food.
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The mostly Euro-American Dukes sell lumber on an ever vaster scale, while the métis Sels struggle between subsistence in a blighted indigenous culture and badly compensated piecework in lumber extraction.
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Make no mistake about it, the North Slope Borough and the entire Arctic Slope region are heavily dependent upon oil and gas revenues for jobs, economic opportunities and continued subsistence use.
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Wildlife like caribou and polar bears and other wildlife are already changing their patterns in response to climate change, and this challenges traditional hunting practices and our subsistence way of life.
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Carried to an extreme these tensions can result in oppressive restrictions, not just on women's autonomy and opportunities but really damaging subsistence-threatening losses in freedom of movement and reproductive choices.
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While we may be filling an urgent need, these poor families struggle every day, eking out a subsistence living, making terrible choices between paying for rent or food or medical care.
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In his 60s and disabled, he lives alone on the plot of land his family passed down through generations, where they used to raise animals and grow tobacco and subsistence crops.
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With more than half the population engaged in subsistence agriculture, real economic progress will only come to the country when farmers learn to improve yields and to better market their products.
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The groom is a founder and the chief executive of Cinch Markets, a Kenya-based social enterprise designed to improve both agricultural production and the incomes of subsistence farmers across Africa.
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Otherwise, if our industrial companies and financial institutions only had Liechtenstein as a market, they would have to close down immediately and we would have to move back to subsistence farming.
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In place of the optimism propelling the GOP tax plan, Democrats offer "secular stagnation" and schemes to provide a subsistence wage to the millions who will soon be out of work.
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The official poverty measure was developed by the Social Security Administration's Mollie Orshansky in 226 and defined as three times the "subsistence food budget" for a family of a given size.
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The widely used line demarcating extreme poverty was recently updated to $220 a day, a level the World Bank has determined marks a meaningful division between (bare) subsistence and absolute destitution.
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The world's poorest people — some seen in idyllic imagery here — have to devote long hours to basic subsistence, and the world's relatively well off have the luxury to indulge in artisanal cooking.
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The Inupiat hunting and fishing community has held out against rising water levels and diminishing shorelines for decades, but even its subsistence lifestyle is becoming unsustainable as surrounding ice continues to melt.
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" The group states: "The voices of respected artists and cultural institutions are co-opted to drown out the voices of those whose rights, health, family, and subsistence are endangered by oil drilling.
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" (The two aren't mutually exclusive.) Under Puyallup tribal code, commercial permits "shall be issued when the shellfish harvested will be sold, bartered, or disposed of other than for subsistence or ceremonial use.
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Clements said she was concerned about the hundreds of people who live in low-lying river areas in tin sheds, cultivating crops in their backyard for subsistence and sale at the market.
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Despite its mineral wealth, which includes Exxon Mobil's $20 billion LNG plant, most of the country's nearly eight million people live at subsistence level on islands, atolls and in remote mountain village.
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It is these very same special interest groups who once objected to our whaling culture but now conveniently call for the protection of that subsistence lifestyle to support their offshore political agendas.
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A full crackdown would drive tens of thousands of subsistence miners into hunger, while the cash-strapped Peruvian government struggles to control a $2.6 billion black market, according to a 2016 report.
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They have been at the heart of our subsistence way of life for thousands of years – giving us the food and clothing we need to continue our rich tradition since time immemorial.
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Michael Gurven, an anthropologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has done extensive research on the Tsimane, a Bolivian population that lives a subsistence lifestyle of hunting, gathering, fishing and farming.
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Japanese hunters operate under a research permit issued by their own government, and aboriginal subsistence hunting takes place in a handful of countries that includes the United States, Canada, Russia and Greenland.
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Dhila, a retrenched accountant and subsistence farmer, shook his head as he remembered his 45 hectares (110 acres) of maize, tomatoes and spinach drying up and the slow death of his cattle.
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Dhila, a retrenched accountant and subsistence farmer, shook his head as he remembered his 45 hectares (110 acres) of maize, tomatoes and spinach drying up and the slow death of his cattle.
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For the last 20 years, a public charge has been defined as a person "primarily dependent" on the government for subsistence, either by receiving public cash assistance or long-term institutional care.
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When oil was first discovered in the Arctic in 28503, the indigenous Iñupiat were concerned about industry activities on their land and fought hard for self-determination to protect their subsistence resources.
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Poverty is universal, jobs are scarce, large families are crammed into mud-brick homes and meals often are constituted of little more than the subsistence crops residents grow — mainly corn and beans.
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Every fall, when the land and the water become glued together by sea ice, locals trek miles out into the Arctic Ocean to hunt bowhead whales, a critical part of the subsistence diet.
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THE domestication of wheat and other staple crops in the Levant some 10,000 years ago allowed for persistent settlement above a level of mere subsistence—one possible definition of the beginning of civilisation.
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In 1954 Arthur Lewis, a Nobel prize-winning economist, argued that development occurs as labour shifts from an unproductive "traditional" sector—activities such as subsistence farming, or petty trade—into modern, capitalist activities.
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In its earlier incarnations, the members of the middle class were situated between a tiny powerful elite and much larger numbers of landless laborers and subsistence farmers who struggled to feed their families.
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A Muslim people partly descended from Central Asian, Persian, and Arab traders who travelled along the Silk Road, the Hui have, for generations, lived mostly as subsistence farmers in Ningxia's inhospitable mountain regions.
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Bruno Mainini, Swiss commissioner to the IWC and chair of the body's aboriginal subsistence whaling subcommittee, credits that visit with convincing skeptical delegates that the Inupiaq could sustainably manage the bowhead whale harvest.
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Those early humans had a variety of plant and animal and fish sources of subsistence, and it actually required very little of the year for them to get all of their protein needs.
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Mr. Trump and his budget director, Mick Mulvaney, the architect of the plan, have sought to redefine as welfare subsistence benefit programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, and housing aid.
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Women account for a substantial portion of the work force as well, but the wages are anything but subsistence: over $20 an hour plus benefits for workers with just a high school diploma.
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We may not have the same deep, multi-generational connection to this beautiful landscape as the indigenous Gwich'in people whose subsistence, culture and way of life have depended on it since time immemorial.
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It also supports subsistence activities for Native Alaskan communities and is open to recreation such as hunting, hiking, fishing and wildlife viewing, all of which contribute to Alaska's $9.5 billion outdoor recreation economy.
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Impoverished Malawi is periodically hit by food shortages as the tropical southern African country relies heavily on rain-fed agriculture and most of its maize is grown on small plots by subsistence farmers.
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English peasants dispossessed by the practice of enclosure, an early ancestor of private property rights; Native Americans dispossessed of land by American settlers; Appalachians dispossessed of their subsistence farms by coal mining operations.
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South Korea's prime minister, Hwang Kyo-ahn, told parliament South Korea wanted existing U.N. sanctions against the North tightened by removing loopholes that allow it to trade in minerals if it is for subsistence.
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Modi's surprise move came in a bid to curb corruption and tax evasion but his critics say it has had an adverse effect on the poor and subsistence farmers who depend heavily on cash.
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But current U.S. guidelines, in place since 1999, narrowly define "public charge" to be a person "primarily dependent on the government for subsistence," either through direct cash assistance or government-funded long-term care.
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A recent report by the Guatemalan System of Climate Change Sciences found that subsistence farmers, who harvest mostly to feed themselves, and indigenous people have been most affected by unpredictable rainfall and rising temperatures.
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"While cash transfers have been used in humanitarian contexts before, this initiative is a significant departure from the status quo because we're giving families transformative amounts of money versus small, subsistence amounts," Diao explained.
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"Generally in Haiti land is managed in very small patches, with a household having subsistence crops in a number of locations, often on steep slopes," noted ecosystems scientist Alexandra Morel at NASA's Earth Observatory.
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BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Guatemala's subsistence farmers and indigenous people living in poor rural communities are most affected by rising temperatures and unpredictable rainfall linked to climate change, a leading researcher said on Friday.
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For many years, the scientists had been studying and tagging along on hunts with the Hadza, a tribe in Tanzania that lives by subsistence hunting and foraging for berries, honey, baobab fruit and tubers.
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We see such an effect already in the gig economy, where companies pay paltry wages by claiming that their endeavors are flexible and part-time and that workers surely have subsistence income from elsewhere.
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But with Western convenience, of course, comes high levels of fat, sugar, and salt and the very real possibility of new health problems emerging in these countries where food is a matter of subsistence.
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Large-scale commercial agriculture -- the backbone of the country's economy -- was replaced by subsistence farming, hyper-inflation set in, and later, the country was forced to dump its currency and adopt the US dollar.
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Large-scale commercial agriculture -- the backbone of the country's economy -- was replaced by subsistence farming, hyper-inflation set in and, later, the country was forced to dump its currency and adopt the US dollar.
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In the Arctic, potential limits on subsistence hunting are met with anger and disdain—not least among business leaders, who use them to argue that villagers and climate-change activists are not natural allies.
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But diminished expectations of an offshore bonanza are now drawing attention to a different scenario, in which the Inupiat no longer struggle to choose between oil and subsistence: instead, they could lose them both.
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Born in 1904, she grew up with a family life of subsistence living, and, following the death of her husband, moved to Kinngait with several of her seventeen children to seek out an income.
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A distant memory for many of the world's urbanites today, subsistence farming is still the main livelihood across sub-Saharan Africa, where 389 million people are estimated to live on less than $1.90 a day.
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Moreover, given that being dependent on customers for subsistence makes tipped workers acutely vulnerable to discrimination and harassment, reducing the share of wages that comes from tips may also improve workplace climate and worker experiences.
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But U.S. guidelines in place for nearly two decades narrowly define "public charge" to be a person "primarily dependent on the government for subsistence," either through direct cash assistance or government-funded long-term care.
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Culturally and nutritionally, bowheads are the most important subsistence food species for native residents in this isolated settlement, accessible only by air or by sea during the short summer months when the water is open.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Formalizing the work of tens of thousands of subsistence miners could eventually contribute an additional 0.4%, equivalent to some $1.3 billion, to Colombia's annual gross domestic product, the energy minister said on Thursday.
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Five years of recurring droughts have destroyed maize and bean harvests, leaving poor subsistence farmers in the so-called Dry Corridor that runs through Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua struggling to feed their families.
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Under this, healthcare and other types of social support have spread across a country where most people rely on subsistence farming that has been hit by severe drought in the past two years or more.
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While Bezos is not the only business owner whose workers rely on government assistance, the sheer size of his business and its monumental success make his continued reliance on paying workers subsistence wages simply astonishing.
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Looting antiquities in the Middle East has been part of local subsistence economies for generations, so it is possible that the objects reached Geneva through middlemen, and were routed for whatever reason through the Gulf.
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It denies rebels popular support, not by winning hearts and minds or turning the population against the rebels, but rather by turning the people into refugees on the run or reducing them to subsistence-level.
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With the waters from Cyclone Idai starting to recede, it was time to take stock, and in Tica, a central Mozambique village where many of the residents are subsistence farmers, the news was not good.
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In previous decades they might have made a living from fishing or subsistence farming, but now they work for the government's environment ministry, which has struggled to address the problem of pollution along the Motagua.
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Its unique skill is to build mud nests with thick sturdy walls similar in shape to the mud ovens that were vital for countryside subsistence in several countries of South America until the 20th century.
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It helped women graduate from subsistence agriculture to small business, perhaps because having an M-Pesa account gives a woman her own money, rather than her husband's or parents', and a greater sense of agency.
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The FARC's often old-fashioned Marxist rhetoric strikes many as a throwback to their 1964 founding, but proposals for reforms to complicated property laws may get traction with rural voters who struggle as subsistence farmers.
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Last year, the Democratic Republic of Congo produced between 60 and 70 percent of the world's cobalt—a third of that was "artisanal" or subsistence mining, independently done outside formal employment with a mining company.
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The US has no need to provide jobs as a secondary source of income for agricultural laborers and subsistence farmers; a lack of capital for small enterprises isn't a major factor holding back growth here.
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Only on further inspection can one see that the moon man is missing his left hand — the victim of an accident, an all-too-common occurrence in the near subsistence-level existence of rural India.
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"I will vote for whoever can help us," says Sidumo, co-chairwoman of BlueDisa, a cooperative of 21 freehold and subsistence farmers given parcels of a hectare each by the government as part of the reforms.
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"In the rural areas, generally most people are subsistence farmers," says Kenneth Arinaitwe, a researcher at Makerere University in Uganda and an Alexander von Humboldt visiting researcher at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany.
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People who say they have been enslaved can get counseling, housing and a weekly subsistence payment during a recovery period under the government's National Referral Mechanism (NRM) - the scheme whereby victims are identified and given support.
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The government said changes in the rate of subsistence payments would not reduce the overall funding available for survivors as they will be able to access support for a longer period under changes announced last October.
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Ningsih first arrived in Hong Kong in 22014 to be a domestic helper, working for subsistence wages as maids and child minders for Hong Kong's families like tens of thousands of other Indonesian and Filipina women.
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" As the tribes sought to assert their treaty rights dating from 28503, courts established a tribal water right to maintain sufficient water flows for the fishes and water plants required for subsistence, dating "from time immemorial.
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Spotlight Zhang Zanbo grew up poor in Hunan Province, the child of subsistence farmers, and though he moved to the capital for graduate study at the Beijing Film Academy, he never forgot where he came from.
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There's something tightened and withheld in Foster, which fed into his portrayal of Lance Armstrong, in "The Program" (2015), and which helps us now to believe in Will as he whittles his subsistence down to basics.
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Agriculture accounts for about 15 percent of Morocco's economy and is the country's biggest employer, accounting for nearly 35 percent its workforce, although the majority of cereal-planted areas are small properties owned by subsistence farmers.
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In the Solomon Islands, more than 80 percent of the islands' nearly 600,000 people live in rural areas, and most rely on subsistence or small-scale commercial agriculture, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock.
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By protecting the Arctic Ocean from offshore drilling, President Obama has helped reduce the risk of another devastating oil spill that will pollute Alaska's shores, kill Arctic wildlife and destroy the subsistence harvest from the ocean.
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"The inadequacies — more than just a handful and more than mere imperfections — left entire subjects of central interest to the affected First Nations, sometimes subjects affecting their subsistence and well-being, entirely ignored," said the ruling.
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Increasing productivity is partly about moving workers from sectors where it is low to those where it is high (from subsistence farming to textile manufacturing, say), and partly about achieving steady growth in productivity within sectors.
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Jenny George's exquisitely spare meditation never allows us to stray from the harsh realities of rural subsistence; the livestock's wintry snorts may recall the warm breath of just-baked bread, but cold muck still tugs underfoot.
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AMNE MACHIN RANGE, China (Reuters) - For Ma Junxiao, an ethnic Hui Muslim farmer from remote western China, the daily climb up sheer mountain slopes to look for a tiny fungus is vital to his family's subsistence.
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The mine, in the headwaters of Bristol Bay — home to the largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world — could decimate the fishing industry that thrives there, as well as the subsistence fishing of Native Alaskan tribes.
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Two consecutive years of severe drought linked to El Nino - a warming of the Pacific Ocean's surface that causes hot and drier conditions - have decimated crops and battered subsistence farmers in the "dry corridor" running through Honduras.
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The second is limiting climate change—which will hit many of the same people hardest, since they are subsistence farmers in semi-arid regions, which will become drier and perhaps also more prone to extreme weather events.
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Bas-Uele province, with a population of 900,000 in 2007, is mostly inhabited by people of the Boa tribe, who live mainly through subsistence farming and hunting and conduct some trade by way of the Uele River.
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First, every basic income proposal I've seen has been subsistence-level basic income; people would still have to work to get anything better than a thin shared roof over their heads and three cheap meals a day.
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He has looked at the long-term data and realized that generations of families have been essentially stuck in poverty, relying upon government services for subsistence rather than making choices and striving to achieve the American dream.
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Tech giants are making products that are being used by subsistence farmers in India, taxi drivers in China, bankers in London and schoolteachers in Brazil, to name a few random people off the top of my head.
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For subsistence farmers in a cash economy, every quetzal counts, and Domingo Caal, the 61-year-old family patriarch, calculates his expenses in terms of how much corn he would have to sell to pay for them.
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Matt's grandfather Tomas Ortega left a subsistence existence in Mexico as a 13-year-old in the 1920s, hopping a train to Texas, working in quarries around Chicago and traveling to Pennsylvania to work for Bethlehem Steel.
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Down the valley, in a homestead of five mud and stone buildings roofed with wicker and thatch, the three Ben Rabeh brothers and their families eek out a subsistence life far from the politics of the capital.
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