Subsistence agriculture: Farming in which the output is consumed by the farming family with little or no surplus for sale.
How to apply it: Use subsistence agriculture to explain land-use patterns in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
Course: AP Human Geography · Unit: Agriculture and Rural Land-Use Patterns and Processes
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