If a country or group is self-sufficient, it is able to produce or make everything that it needs. This enabled the country to become self-sufficient in sugar Using traditional methods poor farmers can be virtually self-sufficient
able to provide for your own needs without help from others; "a self-sufficing economic unit"
Someone who is self-sufficient is able to live happily without anyone else. Although she had various boyfriends, Madeleine was, and remains, fiercely self-sufficient. able to provide all the things you need without help from other people
able to provide for your own needs without help from others; "a self-sufficing economic unit