They were just subsistence farmers and they wanted to be left alone.
When Your Safety Becomes My Danger (Ep. 432)|Stephen J. Dubner|September 24, 2020|Freakonomics
It is natural that rural Guatemalans or subsistence farmers in Kenya, facing drought or scorching heat, would seek out someplace more stable and resilient.
Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration|by Abrahm Lustgarten, photography by Meridith Kohut|September 15, 2020|ProPublica
Income allows us in one period of time be able to pay our bills, be able to have subsistence in our life.
Should America (and FIFA) Pay Reparations? (Ep. 426)|Stephen J. Dubner|July 16, 2020|Freakonomics
For farmers who are mainly focused on subsistence farming, the upside includes optimizing underutilized vast pieces of land, earning extra income and getting access to market through Komaza’s wood processing and sales operations.
An Africa-focused “micro-forestry” startup has raised $28 million to plant a billion trees|Yomi Kazeem|July 14, 2020|Quartz
These are young fathers, rural farmers, usually growing banana or coffee or subsistence crops.
How Good Dads Can Change the World|Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Hunter-gatherers and subsistence farmers work hard to obtain every calorie they eat.
Is Your Chair Killing You? The Consequences of Comfort|Daniel E. Lieberman|October 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Moreover, the settlements rely for their subsistence on profligate funding and services provided by the state of Israel.
Partition Skepticism and the Future of the Peace Process|Avner Inbar, Assaf Sharon|September 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST
If adopted on a large scale, locavorism can only re-create the misery inherent to subsistence agriculture.
Why Locavorism Doesn’t Make Us Happier, Healthier, or Safer|Pierre Desrochers, Hiroko Shimizu|July 1, 2012|DAILY BEAST
By that I mean providing education, providing health care, daily living, subsistence and so on.
Is Angelina Bad for Africa?|Andrew Rice|March 26, 2009|DAILY BEAST
They labor for subsistence; they sleep for refreshment; they laugh with the merry, and weep with the afflicted.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, v. 3, number 18|Various
Desiring arrangements to be made for the subsistence of the Hessian recruits.
The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Volume X (of 12)|Various
For a time remittances of money came regularly, but these suddenly stopped, and their only means of subsistence was gone.
Yorksher Puddin'|John Hartley
There was great scarcity of ordnance stores, but, happily, an abundant supply of subsistence stores.
General Scott|General Marcus J. Wright
I was forced to admit that I had never seen a town less likely to afford a subsistence than this.
A Set of Rogues|Frank Barrett
British Dictionary definitions for subsistence
subsistence
/ (səbˈsɪstəns) /
noun
the means by which one maintains life
the act or condition of subsisting
a thing that has real existence
the state of being inherent
philosophyan inferior mode of being ascribed to the references of general terms which do not in fact existSee also nonbeing