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Other subsistence farmers found themselves competing with cash-crop entrepreneurs (Jews and Arabs) whose successes changed the face of Palestinian agriculture.
Landraces are highly heterogeneous, having been selected for subsistence agricultural environments where low, but stable yields were important and natural environmental fluctuation required a broad genetic base (Figure 2).
Although economic and social considerations often supercede scientific assessments, science will continuously be called upon to deliver management options that will straddle the needs for conservation and production, even in areas where there is only subsistence fishing (Box 1).
During war and peace alike in this feudal age, the Church and the aristocracy continued to claim their respective portions of the peasants’ labor, leaving barely enough for subsistence.
The point is that in the first fifty-year segment, the lexical landscape is one of occupation and subsistence rather than exploration: it is utilitarian rather than interpretive.