1. By
Brian De Vries

2.  Form of Farming
 All, or nearly all, livestock and crops are kept
to use by farmer
 Historically, people would move from place to
place and farm
 Modern farming has
replaced this method
 Products not sold

3.  Was predominant farming method for
centuries until colonization and industrial
revolution
 Remote parts of the world that were not
converted to commercial farms still adapt this
method

4.  Prevent erosion by terraces
 Alternate livestock food to prevent
overgrazing
 Use animal waste as fertilizer for crops
 Vegetation and soil retention improves soil
structure and water availability
 Land becomes more productive and able to
produce food

5.  Heaving manual labor necessary
 Produce enough food to live on
 May produce more to buy other necessities

6.  Droughts
 Gradual depletion of nutrients
 Getting essentials that can’t be grown
 Finding enough usable land to produce food

10.  http://www.ideorg.org/main/images/pictures/straw-mushroom.jpg
 http://static.newworldencyclopedia.org/thumb/6/6b/Bakweri_cocoyam_farmer_from_Cameroo
 http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/570994/subsistence-farming
 http://www.twnside.org.sg/title2/susagri/susagri090.htm
 http://www.untotheleast.com/blog/uploaded_images/013006_%20b783-760459.jpg
 http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.untotheleast.com/blog/uploaded_imag
 http://www.sdnetwork.net/files/pdf/growing-green-final.pdf
 http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Subsistence_farming
 http://www.uscef.org/i/cabbage_hillside.jpg