Destruction of rural subsistence economy

Name(s): 
Unprotected subsistence rights
Nature 
The rural subsistence economy, the part of the economy from which until now the bulk of the rural population of developing countries produced its requirements, is being subjected to continual encroachments and destruction by capital-intensive export-agriculture, industrialization, and depredation of the environment. It is the destruction of this sector (a sector only partly integrated into the world economy and still partly autonomous) which is the root cause of the emigration of large parts of the rural population.
Claim 
Despite declarations by institutions such as the World Bank that the destruction of this sector should not run out of control, and the knowledge that it constitutes a source of cheap labour and the basis for political stability, nothing concrete has been done.
Type 
(C) Cross-sectoral problems