Subsistence Farming

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

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World Bank Group · 23 April 2024 English

The document collection focuses on strategies to enhance social safety nets for poverty alleviation, with a particular emphasis on improving the targeting and impact of cash transfer programs. It addresses …

Over 42 percent of the jobs are still in subsistence farming and another 46 percent are in services. The poor are more likely to be involved in subsistence farming and low-productivity services (such as retail


World Bank Group · 22 April 2024 English

Land institutions and policies will be critical to help African countries respond to the challenges of climate change, urban expansion, structural transformation, and gender equality. Together, they affect urban dwellers’ …

make it easier for small farmers to exit subsistence farming, bring perishable high-value crops to market


World Bank Group · 22 April 2024 English

This Guidance Note represents a call to action, dedicated to enhancing access to land and unlocking the full potential of land assets for urban and infrastructure development, as well as …

discourage innovation, and lock families into subsistence farming. (iii) The Rights of Indigenous, Tribal Health Survey, 2017-18). As a rule, rural subsistence farming has followed the pattern of land passing


World Bank Group · 18 April 2024 English

agricultural sector is highly fragmented and subsistence farming is the dominant model. Most farms are small


World Bank Group · 18 April 2024 English

Due to global warming, the climate in most regions, especially Africa, is predicted to become more variable, and extreme weather events are expected to be more frequent and severe. These …

northern part of Ghana greatly relies on subsistence farming. Thus, it is prone to food insecurity due


World Bank Group · 15 April 2024 English

The 75 economies eligible for low-interest loans and grants from the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) had made notable progress against some important development objectives over the first two …

income and assets and rely, for example, on subsistence farming, will nevertheless still be affected by


PIK: Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung · 11 April 2024 English

While it is widely assumed that poor countries will suffer more from climate change, and that climate change will exacerbate inequalities within countries, systematic and large-scale evidence on this issue …

change on net revenue and food adequacy of subsistence farming households in South Africa Environ. Dev.


World Bank Group · 10 April 2024 English

that have prioritized low-productivity subsistence farming instead of the development of more productive


U4: U4 Anti-corruption Resources Centre · 9 April 2024 English

therefore imperative to prevent forms of corruption and financial mismanagement that undermine the In LMICs, losses to corruption and mismanagement effectiveness of social protection, as part of a wider are …

longer able to underemployment, as well as subsistence farming. work due to old age, disability, or the


World Bank Group · 8 April 2024 English

Remaining illegal logging is attributed to subsistence farming, illicit crops, or land grabbing, while fuelwood


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