List of subsistence techniques

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List of subsistence techniques

Subsistence is the food necessary to sustain life.

The following is a list of subsistence techniques
Subsistence economy

A subsistence economy is an economy in which a group attempts to produce no more output per period than they must consume in that period in order to survive, but do not attempt to accumulate wealth or to transfer productivity from one period to the next....
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Hunting and Gathering
Hunter-gatherer

A hunter-gatherer society is one whose primary List of subsistence techniques involves the direct procurement of edible plants and animals from the wild, foraging and hunting without significant recourse to the domestication of either....
techniques, also known as Foraging
Foraging

Foraging theory is a branch of behavioral ecology that studies the foraging behavior of animals in response to the environment in which the animal lives....
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freeganism
Freeganism

Freeganism is an anti-consumerism lifestyle whereby people employ alternative living strategies based on "limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources"....
— involves gathering of discarded food in the context of an urban environment (eg by dumpster diving
Dumpster diving

Dumpster diving is the practice of sifting through commercial or residential Waste to find items that have been discarded by their owners, but which may be useful to the Dumpster diver....
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gleaning
Gleaning

Gleaning is the act of collecting leftover crops from farmers' fields after they have been commercially harvested or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest....
— involves the gathering of food that traditional farmers have left behind in their fields.

Cultivation
Cultivation

In agriculture, cultivation is the process of geting fater plants on arable land. It is usually associated with large-scale agriculture, as opposed to small-scale gardening....
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Horticulture
Horticulture

'Horticulture' is the industry and science of plant cultivation. Horticulturists work and conduct research in the disciplines of plant propagation and cultivation, Crop , plant breeding and genetic engineering, plant biochemistry, and plant physiology....
— plant cultivation, based on the use of simple tools.
subsistence agriculture
Subsistence agriculture

Subsistence agriculture is self-sufficiency farming in which farmers grow only enough food to feed their family and pay taxes. The typical subsistence farm has a range of crops and animals needed by the family to eat during the year....
— agricultural
Agriculture

Agriculture refers to the production of food and goods through farming and forestry. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of civilization, with the animal husbandry of domestication animals and plants creating food surpluses that enabled the development of more Population density and Social stratification societies....
cultivation involving continuous use of arable (crop) land
Arable land

In geography, arable land is an agriculture term, meaning land that can be used for growing agriculture. Arable land is currently being lost at the rate of over 200,000 km? per year....
, and is more labor-intensive than horticulture.
Guerrilla gardening
Guerrilla gardening

Guerrilla gardening is political gardening, a form of nonviolent direct action, primarily practiced by environmentalism. It is related to land rights, land reform, and permaculture....
- plant cultivation on (unused) areas of land that are not owned by the cultivator himself, but is squat
Squatting

Squatting is the act of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied space or building, usually residential, that the squatter does not Land ownership and tenure....
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Pastoralism
Animal husbandry

Animal husbandry, also called animal science, stockbreeding or simple husbandry, is the agriculture practice of animal breeding and raising livestock....
, the raising of grazing animals:

Pastoral nomad
Nomad

Nomadic people, , also known as nomads, are communities of people who move from one place to another, rather than Settler in one location....
ism — all members of the pastoral society follow the herd throughout the year.
Transhumance
Transhumance

Transhumance is the seasonal movement of people with their livestock over relatively short distances, typically to higher pastures in summer and to lower valleys in winter....
or agro-pastoralism — part of the society follows the herd, while the other part maintains a home village.
Ranch agriculture — non-nomadic pastoralism with a defined territory.

Distribution
Distribution (business)

Distribution is one of the four elements of marketing mix. An organization or set of organizations involved in the process of making a product or service available for use or consumption by a consumer or business user....
and Exchange:

Redistribution
Redistribution

Redistribution can mean:* Redistribution , the legal process in Australia whereby electoralboundaries are moved* Redistribution in relation to non-market economic exchange...
Reciprocity
Reciprocity

Reciprocity may refer to:*Ethic of reciprocity, the "Golden Rule" principle in ethics and religion*Norm of reciprocity, social norm of in-kind responses to the behavior of others ...
— exchange between social equals.
Potlatch
Potlatch

A potlatch is a festival ceremony practiced by Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast in North America, along Pacific Northwest coast of the United States and the Canada province of British Columbia....
ing — a widely studied ritual in which sponsors (helped by their entourages) gave away resources and manufactured wealth while generating prestige for themselves.
LETS — Local Exchange Trading Systems.

List of subsistence techniques

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