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20-September-2008 09:29:07 - Subsistence agriculture Like most farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa, this Cameroonian man cultivates at the subsistence level. Like most farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa, this Cameroonian man cultivates at the subsistence level. Subsistence agriculture is self-sufficient farming in which farmers grow only enough food to feed the family and to pay taxes or feudal dues. The typical subsistence farm has a range of crops and animals needed by the family to eat during the year. Planting decisions are made with an eye toward what the family will need during the coming year, rather than market prices. Tony Waters 2007:2 writes that Subsistence peasants are people who grow what they eat, build their own houses, and live without regularly making purchases in the marketplace. Subsistence grain-growing agriculture predominantly wheat and barley first emerged during the Neolithic Revolution when humans began to settle in the Nile, Euphrates, and Indus River Valleys. It was the dominant mode of production in the world until recently, when market-based capitalism became widespread. Subsistence horticulture may have developed earlier in South East Asia and Papua New Guinea. Subsistence farming continues today in large parts of up-country Africa Hyden 1981, and other countries of Asia and South America. Subsistence agriculture had by and large disappeared in Europe by the beginning of World War I, and in North America with the movement of sharecroppers and tenant farmers out of the American South and Midwest during the 1930s and 1940s Waters 2007:127-129. Effects on the environment Subsistence farming typically uses few fertilizers and no machines. Instead the farmers may use draft animals which can be fed and raised on the farm. Subsistence farmers often rely on crop rotation, animal manure, and compost to restore the nutrients rather than purchasing expensive synthetic fertilizers. In areas which are sparsely populated, subsistence agriculture can be sustainable for a long time. In more densely populated areas, subsistence agriculture may deplete the soil of nutrients, and damage the environment. However the traditional agriculture of East Asia, for example the small-holdings of China, has been described as sustainable, using extensive methods of cultivation and despite high population pressure.citation needed One form of subsistence agriculture is shifting cultivation, or swidden, a practice common with rain fed agricultural systems. Farmers typically abandon a given plot when soil fertility wanes and move on to more fertile land, often utilizing slash and burn techniques. A considerable fallow period ensues on the abandoned land. It takes up the least amount of land among the four types of cultivation,clarify but it only provides enough food for the local populationcitation needed. See also Commercial agriculture Cash crop Hoe-farming References Goran Hyden. Beyond Ujamaa in Tanzania: Underdevelopment and an Uncaptured Peasantry. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1980. Charles Sellers. The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846. New York: Oxford University Press. 1991. Tony Waters. The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture: life beneath the level of the marketplace. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2007. Howard, Sir Albert. 1943 An Agricultural Testament. Oxford University Press. Retrieved from http://en..org/wiki/Subsistence_agriculture Categories: Agriculture | Tropical agriculture | Agricultural labor | Agricultural economics | EconomiesHidden categories: All articles with statements | Articles with statements since July 2008 | articles needing clarification Views Article Discussion this page History Personal tools Log in / create account Navigation Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Search Go Search Interaction Community portal Recent changes Contact Donate to Help Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link Cite this page Languages Català Deutsch Español Français हिन�दी Simple English This page was last modified on 6 August 2008, at 18:2
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