But many of today's hunts are motivated far more by commercial interests than subsistence needs.

This creates a need to balance conservation efforts with local subsistence needs.

Weaving and other handcrafts play an important economic role as in many cases, farming is not enough to meet subsistence needs.

To a great extent, the family's subsistence needs were filled by means of hunting, though they did grow crops and sold any surplus.

As agriculture developed, surplus wealth, that is goods above the basic subsistence needs of the community, was produced.

In order to secure an income that reflected the subsistence needs of families, wages were to be set according to age and family responsibilities.

Agricultural land was managed by women and allotted according to the subsistence needs of their extended families.

If the intent is to really help the people with subsistence needs, they wouldn't be doing it in the Anchorage-Fairbanks area.

Despite a relatively wide variety of agricultural production, the majority of farmers produce for subsistence needs.

Tajikistan thus depends on international humanitarian assistance for much of its basic subsistence needs.