List_of_subsistence_techniques
Subsistence is the food necessary to sustain life.
The following is a list of subsistence techniques:
 Hunting and Gathering techniques, also known as Foraging:
*freeganism — involves gathering of discarded food in the context of an urban environment (eg by dumpster diving, ...].
*gleaning — involves the gathering of food that traditional farmers have left behind in their fields.
Cultivation:
* Horticulture — plant cultivation, based on the use of simple tools.
* subsistence agriculture — agricultural cultivation involving continuous use of arable (crop) land, and is more labor-intensive than horticulture.
* Guerrilla gardening - plant cultivation on (unused) area's of land that is not owned by the cultivator himself, but is squat instead
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.
* Ranch agriculture — non-nomadic pastoralism with a defined territory.
Distribution and :
* Redistribution
* Reciprocity — exchange between social equals.
* Potlatching — a widely studied ritual in which sponsors (helped by their entourages) gave away resources and manufactured wealth while generating prestige for themselves.
* LETS — Local Exchange Trading Systems.
See also
List of alternative lifestyles
Anthropological theories of value
Staple food
Society
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