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"Subsistence practices" as a book category encompasses the methods, knowledge, and cultural systems people use to produce, gather, and secure their daily food and basic necessities. It covers traditional and contemporary techniques—hunting, fishing, foraging, small-scale farming, pastoralism, horticulture, home gardening, seed saving, and food preservation—alongside the ecological knowledge, tools, seasonal rhythms, and community practices that sustain livelihoods. Titles in this category range from practical how‑to manuals and survival/sufficiency guides to ethnographies, memoirs, historical studies, and policy analyses that examine food sovereignty, land use, and the impacts of climate change and development on local subsistence systems. Central themes include self‑reliance, sustainability, intergenerational knowledge transmission, and the social, economic, and spiritual dimensions of living directly from the land.

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