Sentences with phrase «subsistence farmers depending»

In South Asia, distress migration owing to climate events and particularly droughts is high, as over three - quarters of the population is dependent on agriculture, out of which more than half are subsistence farmers depending on rains for irrigation.

Subsistence farmers depend on the soil to produce food for their families; they know the seasons and when rains will come to water their crops and allow seeds to send out roots.

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Even subsistence farmers in, say, equatorial Africa are depending these days on metals and fabrics that they can not source from outside the industrial economy, and which they would be hard put to replace successfully.

Kevin: Even subsistence farmers in, say, equatorial Africa are depending these days on metals and fabrics that they can not source from outside the industrial economy, and which they would be hard put to replace successfully.