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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: Helmer as discussed by the authors argued that the land we hold in trust is our wealth and that without our homelands, we become true paupersons, and that good life derived from the land and sea is what we are all about, that's what land claims was all about.
Abstract: Profi t to non-Natives means money. Profi t to Natives means a good life derived from the land and sea, that’s what we are all about, that’s what this land claims was all about. . . . The land we hold in trust is our wealth. It is the only wealth we could possibly pass on to our children. Good old Mother Earth with all her bounty and rich culture we have adopted from her treasures is our wealth. Without our homelands, we become true paupers. Antoinnette Helmer

105 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, FARM-Africa and its partners reintroduced African indigenous vegetables (AIVs) which are now forming part of families' diets as well as becoming a source of income for smallholder farmers in Arumeru, Tanzania and Kiambu, Kenya.
Abstract: African indigenous vegetables (AIVs) have been part of the food systems in sub-Saharan Africa for generations. The region is a natural habitat for more than 45,000 species of plants, of which about 1,000 can be eaten as green leafy or fruit vegetables that happen to be the mainstay of traditional diets. During the colonial era, adventurers and slavers sailing in Africa introduced exotic plants such as maize, cassava and beans and, later, commercial crops such as sugarcane, cocoa, coffee and cotton, which began contributing more to life. Farmers integrated these crops into their age-old livelihood strategies at the expense of traditional subsistence crops. AIVs were almost entirely neglected and considered ‘poor people's' plants. To reverse the trend, FARM-Africa and its partners reintroduced AIVs which are now forming part of families’ diets as well as becoming a source of income for smallholder farmers in Arumeru, Tanzania and Kiambu, Kenya. AIVs are robust and productive, and thus well suited to feeding...

105 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, Wankel et al. investigated the impact of micro-franchise on low-income individuals in subsistence marketplaces in Ghana and found that microfranchising positively impacts savings and profits.

105 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023534
20221,101
2021279
2020268
2019297
2018303