Self-sufficiency designates an autonomous, thus from other persons or institutions independent

Sociological aspects

This can mean, in the everyday life on the active assistance of other humans not to be dependent (housekeeping, hygiene, buying etc.), as it is frequently not (more) possible with old, ill or handicapped humans.

Economic aspects

In the economic sense one speaks of self-sufficiency, if humans the material needs of the daily life (meal, drinking, living etc.) create themselves to a large part and do not only fall back to the products offered in the market. This concerns in particular the self cultivation and the production of food and utensils of all kinds.

A well-known self-support is the Englishman John Seymour, which released a world-wide self-sufficiency movement with its books into the 1970er years and this very day as model for an independent serves many humans.

Self-support

For example Inuits are self-supports. They are final nearly of the external world and must use each hunted animal completely. Chords are for example often taken as dog linen or fishing line. See also: Subsistenzwirtschaft, DIY

Literature

• John Seymour: The large book of the life in the country ISBN 3332010603
• John Seymour: Self-sufficiency from the garden ISBN 333201059X

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