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Agricultura de Subsistência

English translation: subsistence farming

15:57 Nov 12, 2013
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Livestock / Animal Husbandry / Agricultura de Subsistência
Portuguese term or phrase: Agricultura de Subsistência
... poucas pessoas no sertão ainda resistem da agricultura de subsistência.
Denis Paolillo
Brazil
Local time: 20:44
English translation:subsistence farming
Explanation:
subsistence farming (or agriculture)


7 Conservar-se, durar, subsistir: Esses trapos mal resistem ao uso. Apesar de tudo, o doente vai resistindo
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Elizabeth Best
United States
Local time: 19:44
Grading comment
Obrigado!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +10subsistence farming
Elizabeth Best
4 +4Subsistence Agriculture
Marlene Curtis


  

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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
Subsistence Agriculture


Explanation:
Subsistence Agricultre


Explicação:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsistence_agriculture

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Note added at 17 minutos (2013-11-12 16:14:47 GMT)
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subsistence farming - The Free Dictionary
www.thefreedictionary.com/subsistence farming‎
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) a type of farming in which most of the produce (subsistence crop) is consumed by the farmer and his family, .

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/subsistence farming

Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 19:44
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 59

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jose Manuel Braga: ou Subsistence Farming
3 mins
  -> Obrigada!
agree  Claudio Mazotti
6 mins
  -> Grata!
agree  Ana Rita Santiago
31 mins
  -> Grata !
agree  Paulinho Fonseca
57 mins
  -> Obrigada Paulinho!
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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +10
subsistence farming


Explanation:
subsistence farming (or agriculture)


7 Conservar-se, durar, subsistir: Esses trapos mal resistem ao uso. Apesar de tudo, o doente vai resistindo

Example sentence(s):
  • Few survive on subsistence farming.

    Reference: http://michaelis.uol.com.br/moderno/portugues/index.php?ling...
Elizabeth Best
United States
Local time: 19:44
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Obrigado!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Claudio Mazotti
4 mins
agree  Robert Forstag: Seems to be the more usual term in English.
7 mins
agree  Pablo Julián Davis: In context, I think this is the one.
17 mins
agree  Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
18 mins
agree  Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun: Mais usual.
23 mins
agree  Ana Rita Santiago
29 mins
agree  Paulinho Fonseca
54 mins
agree  T o b i a s
1 hr
agree  Douglas Bissell: Absolutely! Farming not agriculture
2 hrs
agree  Muriel Vasconcellos
2 hrs
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