Farming whose harvest is meant for the farmer's own family rather than for a market: smallholdings, most of the work done by hand or with animals, and the year's security riding on the year's weather. It remains how roughly two billion people in the rural developing world live, on holdings under two hectares, in forms ranging from shifting cultivation to the intensive small plots of monsoon Asia. Most of agricultural history is subsistence agriculture; the market farm is the newcomer. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Concept ClassFood Security, Land and Rural Livelihoods 1 Connections
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The contrasting poles of why a crop is grown: for the household or for sale
Source Cash Crop (Wikipedia)
Farm-household production for use rather than market is a standing rural sociology subject
Source Rural Sociology (Wikipedia)
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1. Subsistence Agriculture (Wikipedia)
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Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow crops on smallholdings to meet the needs of themselves and their families.
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Farming whose harvest is meant for the farmer's own family rather than for a market: smallholdings, most of the work done by hand or with animals, and the year's security riding on the year's weather.
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