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Self-sustainability is a type of sustainable living in which nothing is consumed other than what is produced by the self-sufficient individuals. Examples of attempts at self-sufficiency in North America include simple living, food storage, homesteading, off-the-grid, survivalism, DIY ethic, and the back-to-the-land movement.
Gandhi believed in a life of simplicity and self-sufficiency. Simple living refers to practices that promote simplicity in one's lifestyle. Common practices of simple living include reducing the number of possessions one owns, depending less on technology and services, and spending less money.
Autarky is the characteristic of self-sufficiency, usually applied to societies, communities, states, and their economic systems. [1]Autarky as an ideology or economic approach has been attempted by a range of political ideologies and movements, particularly leftist ones like African socialism, mutualism, war communism, [2] communalism, swadeshi, syndicalism (especially anarcho-syndicalism ...
Despite the self-sufficiency in subsistence farming, ... the farmer cultivates a small plot of land using simple tools and more labour. [19]
Unlike a market economy, the core economy relies on specialization reinforced by a "do-it-yourself" attitude that “Builds self-esteem and a voluntary interdependence that replaces involuntary dependence that comes w/ industrial and market specialization” [1] and where self-sufficiency is based upon interdependent family or community units ...
Horticulture — plant cultivation, based on the use of simple tools. Pastoralism, the raising of grazing animals: Pastoral nomadism — all members of the pastoral society follow the herd throughout the year. Transhumance or agro-pastoralism — part of the society follows the herd, while the other part maintains a home village.
Homesteading is a lifestyle of self-sufficiency. It is characterized by subsistence agriculture, home preservation of food, and may also involve the small scale production of textiles, clothing, and craft work for household use or sale. Homesteading has been pursued in various ways around the world and throughout different historical eras.
It works to define the absolute minimum resources necessary for long-term physical well-being, usually in terms of consumption goods. The poverty line is then defined as the amount of income required to satisfy the needs of the people. The "basic needs" approach was introduced by the International Labour Organization's World Employment ...