Where does subsistence farming occur?

Question

I am doing homework and it says give examples of places where subsistence farming occur

Answer 1

In many developing countries such as NIcaragua, Bolivia, Haiti. Subsistence farming is usually seen in countries with high poverty rate, high unemployment levels and large rural population.

Answer 2

subsistence farming is farming in order to feed yourself and family.  Therefore examples could be some third world countries, or early America.

Answer 3

That's commonplace in rural areas of the Philippines.

Answer 4

Subsistence farming is where most or all of the food grown is to feed the farming family.  This happens almost everywhere.  In some places it's for survival, others it's a hobby, others it's to produce your own food to get better quality, fresher food, and sometimes just to get away from factory farmed/raised food.

Answer 5

A large part of Africa and a of lot of China are two places where you will find a lot of subsistence agriculture. Any place where you find a lot of rural poverty and high unemployment you will find a lot of subsistence farming in order for families to survive.

Answer 6

Anywhere where people do not have the choice of going to a grocery store to buy there food.  Third world countries usually.

I'm guessing you live in the U.S.A. and your family gets their food at the grocery store.

In many parts of the world there are NO stores, no system for delivering food to its people.

These people are dependant on themselves to grow, harvest, and preserve their own food.

Some third world countries may have large bustling cities where the people can buy their food at stores, and markets....but go just a few miles outside those large cities, and things become very, very primative, very quickly.

I'll let you look up where a third world country might be.

~Garnet

Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Answer 7

subsistence farming occurs where the bulk of the production is used on the farm where it was raised.

Answer 8

With the drought in Australia, farmers are so broke they are living off the food they produce on their farm. Half of the western land leases are up forsale but worthless and the land can't be sold because nobody will buy the land - so farmers are force to live of their land - this is an example of subsistance farming in a developed country.