"Just to give an idea, there are about 45 million small farms in Africa, many of which consist of subsistence farmers that rely entirely or partially on family labour, comprised mainly of women. In several developing countries, they produce the bulk of these countries’ main agricultural exports."

https://impakter.com/achieving-the-sdgs-grassroots-up-or-global-trade-down/

Can anyone out there please point me to critical articles on this notion of "subsitence"?  It seems so problematic in so many ways, and yet it's banded about so loosely all the time.

Thank you.

Nick

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