Subsistence life style

The first chore of the day in rural Africa is collecting water, which is normally done by the women balancing containers on their heads. The women also grow the food, usually without any mechanical aids, even ploughs. Women farm the bulk (70%) of Africa's food. Traditionally the man's job is to sell the women's produce. Fertility and children remain at the centre of rural marriage. Large numbers of children improve a household's labour pool and provide security in old age. Injectible or implanted contraceptives are popular with women because they can be used without their husband's knowledge, although for many contraception is an abstraction. A typical Ugandan woman has rarely seen her husband in the ten years they have been married. She lives in the village with two other wives and has given birth to five of his 13 children; he works and lives in a town with another wife.

1. Subsistence is a goal and not the result of deprivation, which has often been the modern interpretation. In most traditional societies a subsistence economy means that everybody gets sufficient to fulfil their basic needs with the minimum amount of work, minimal throughput and minimal ecological disruption.

1. Underdeveloped sources of income expansion
2. Sustenance determined priorities
3. Rural poverty
4. Disincentives against farming

1. Unsupervised home births
2. Unproductive subsistence agriculture
3. Tradition-bound land distribution
4. Subsistence-level malnutrition
5. Subsistence approach to capital resources
6. Scavenging for survival
7. Marginal level of family income
8. Limited horizons produced by survival living
9. Inadequate savings
10. Drained social urgency

1. Tradition-bound social structures in rural areas
2. Restricted opportunity for community activity
3. Poor living conditions

1. Worldwide misallocation of resources
2. Non-diversification in subsistence fishing economies
3. Loss of traditional forms of social security
4. Limited opportunities for significant work
5. Export of nutritious food by starving countries
6. Counter-dependency
7. Anti-consumerism

1. Diabetes

1. Voluntary unemployment
2. Individualistic rural resettlement
3. Destruction of rural subsistence economy

1. Struggling for existence
2. Assisting those in poverty

1. Subsistence
2. Style
3. Struggle
4. Reduction
5. Limitedness
6. Life
7. Dependence