subsistence agriculture, is a mode of agriculture in which a plot of land produces only enough food to feed the family or small community working it. All produce grown is intended for consumption purposes as opposed to market sale or trade. Historically and currently a difficult way of life, subsistence farming is considered by many a backward lifestyle that should be transformed into industrialized communities and commercial farming throughout the world in order to overcome problems of poverty and famine. The numerous obstacles that have prevented this to date suggest that a complex array of factors, not only technological but also economic, political, educational, and social, are involved. An alternative perspective, primarily from the feminist voice, maintains that the subsistence lifestyle holds the key to sustainability as human relationships and harmony with the environment have priority over material measures of wealth. Although the poverty suffered by many of those who have never developed beyond subsistence levels of production in farming is something that needs to be overcome, it does appear that the ideas inherent in much of subsistence farming—cooperation, local, ecologically appropriate—are positive attributes that must be preserved in our efforts to improve the lives of all people throughout the world.
The northern states did not want all the slaves to be counted towards the population as it can take away representation from the north because south has a greater number of slaves’ population and south can take advantage of having more representation. However north attempted several times to shift away the burden of taxation.
From the given case/scenario, we can state that these different allele frequencies when compared to mainland are more likely to be caused by <em>Genetic drift</em>.Genetic drift is also known as Sewall Wright effect is referred to as the change in any frequency of the existing gene variant in a given population which occurs because of random sampling of the organisms.
