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Subsistence agriculture
About: Subsistence agriculture is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 8069 publications have been published within this topic receiving 156876 citations. The topic is also known as: subsistence farming.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the economic impacts of IAS that threaten small-holder mixed maize farming in eastern Africa are presented, and the economic impact of five major IAS: Chilo partellus, Maize Lethal Necrosis Disease, Parthenium hysterophorus, Liriomyza spp. and Tuta absoluta on mixed maize smallholders in six countries gave current combined annual losses of US$0.9-1.1 billion; and future annual losses (next 5-10 years) of US $1.0-1 billion.
120 citations
TL;DR: In this article, surveys of nine villages in three districts of the country illustrate how households are managing the transition from subsistence to market, highlighting the growing role of non-farm activities and drawing a distinction between "distress" and "progressive" diversification.
120 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a series of papers seeking to set in a historical context man's influence on the forests of the Nepalese Pahad (Middle Hills and adjoining montane areas).
Abstract: This is the first of a series of papers seeking to set in a historical context man's influence on the forests of the Nepalese Pahad (Middle Hills and adjoining montane areas). In later papers, attention will be focused on two specific districts and on some forests within them. In this paper, the interactions between political history, the traditional resources of the state, and forests are considered. Two main conclusions are drawn. First, that the deforestation of the Middle Hills is not a recent phenomenon but has a long history, being well established by the late eighteenth century at least. Second, that deforestation was caused mainly by the joint attack of government land-use policy and subsistence agriculture. Government policy promoted the conversion of forests to agriculture in order to maximize agricultural surpluses and land taxes. The severity of taxation in turn led to further forest clearing as peasants attempted to maintain subsistence living standards. Many compulsory labour obligations also involved forests and con- tributed to their degradation. Only in recent years has a real consciousness of the value of forests arisen and this has been reflected in legislation aimed at fostering effective community forestry.
120 citations
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01 Jan 1985
TL;DR: In this paper, a study of the Tirunelveli region of Tamil Nadu challenges the conventional view that subsistence, isolation, and immobility characterized village India before modern times.
Abstract: This study of the Tirunelveli region of Tamil Nadu challenges the conventional view that subsistence, isolation, and immobility characterized village India before modern times. Examining the agrarian history of Tirunelveli during the millennium before 1900, David Ludden shows that peasant communities not only transformed rural society but shaped states and empires, including British India.
119 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors take a novel approach by characterizing post-landing trends of small-scale fisheries resources and estimating their total economic value, including both commercial and subsistence values, in a remote rural region in Madagascar.
119 citations