0 the state of having what you need in order to stay alive, but no more:
2 the state of having what you need in order to stay alive, but no more:
Many people in the town feed their families by subsistence, an economic lifestyle characterized by living off the land.
Agricultural production is below subsistence level, leaving many dependent on emergency aid.
Many migrant workers are employed at little more than subsistence wages.
Maize is the national subsistence food in parts of South Africa.
Under the subsistence framework this would lead to reduced pressure on forests, whereas the effect would be the opposite in the market approach.
Pension levels are defined in relation to subsistence needs, and are usually pitched considerably below net earnings during the period of paid employment.
To this end, they might work just enough to get a subsistence income and spend the rest of their time trying to write poetry.
When such criteria do exist, they are broad enough (genealogy, way of life, subsistence activities) to accommodate many different situations.
Such interaction would have diversified the subsistence economy considerably.
The model economy without subsistence absorption exhibits no movements in markups.
In the first place, the discussion of the burials floats almost completely free of any consideration of population, subsistence and exchange patterns.
The women eke out vital family living incomes through subsistence farming, fishing, petty trading and activities in the informal sector.
