In Asia, the rate of urbanization had been less rapid because of agricultural sector development.

The agricultural sector

) The way to overcome poverty in Bosnia and Herzegovina is, inter alia, the development of the agricultural sector.

Private sector development

Since the 1930s, the agricultural sector had been subject to price controls.

Private sector development

The first and most important pillar in African development is agricultural transformation.

The three main areas in which the Organization enjoyed a comparative advantage were private sector development with efficient, and therefore sustainable, use of natural resources trade capacity building and the creation of productive capacities in the non agricultural sector.

Development of the agricultural sector, which employs a significant portion of the labour force in the least developed countries of South East Asia, is essential for poverty reduction, especially in rural areas.

2 According to available estimates, women make up 30 per cent of the agricultural sector, 17 per cent of the non agricultural sector and 20 per cent of the civil service.

JOINT PROGRAMMING PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT

Service Module 4 Private sector development

Service Module 4 Private sector development

Indicator 11 Women's share in paid employment in non agrarian sector

Nicaragua developed an information system for the agricultural sector that provides data by sex.

18.7 The ESCWA region is suffering from a scarcity of water resources and their inefficient use, which is manifested in wasteful consumption patterns, particularly in the agricultural sector.

The agricultural sector accounts for about two fifths of exports, and half of the labor force.

(a) Sustainable energy use in the Canadian agriculture sector is currently limited.

Private sector development clearly means different things to different people.

Once the agricultural sector of the USSR was collectivized, the hunger began.

Zambia s agriculture sector revolves around maize, never mind the growing of other crops and livestock.

The agricultural sector remained important, but manufacturing exports should also be strengthened.

The agricultural sector presently represent 21 of absorption of the total credit made available to the Mozambican economy.

These measures have the double advantage of increasing long term crop productivity and enhancing uptake of CO2 from the atmosphere or abating CO2 emissions.

Women working in the informal and agricultural sectors were particularly badly off.

In accordance with the agricultural framework, negotiations are to encompass all trade distorting policies affecting the sector.

One of the aggravating factors in the development of modern intensive agricultural production is heavy fragmentation of land property.

Aware of the establishment by the territorial Government of the Development Agency in 1995 to encourage private sector commercial development on the island,

Against this background, private sector enterprise development is crucial.

Over the last 25 years, Ghana s agricultural sector has grown at an average annual rate of 5 .

The growth was fuelled by strong private investments in bauxite alumina, tourism, manufacturing industry and, to a lesser extent, the agricultural sector.

It was also helping the private sector to promote industrial development and make developing countries more competitive.

The agreement was complemented with a framework specifically covering the area of private sector development (PSD).

Since infrastructural development in most low income countries requires public funding, the level of spending and the access of the rural poor to infrastructure and public services have important implications for human capital and productivity in the agricultural sector.

Cuba had taken measures to facilitate SME access to credit, particularly in the agricultural sector.

A number of actions have been taken by Government to assist in developing the contribution of women in the economic sector.

But transformation of African agriculture will not happen until the private sector is fully engaged in agricultural production, processing, and marketing.

In 2007, Hurricane Dean caused significant damage to the agricultural sector as well as the country's infrastructure, especially roads.

Another outcome of the Missed Opportunities Harnessing the Potential of Women in Australian Agriculture project is the Rural Research and Development Corporation Rural Women's Award.

Further emphasis will be placed on joint programme development, covering areas other than PSD.

Recognizing the increasing role of the business community, including the private sector, in enhancing the dynamic process of the development of the industrial sector,

More and more countries are doing so through private sector development.

To commit to promote and facilitate national policy dialogue on the role of the indigenous private sector in development and induce policy, legal and regulatory framework to support private sector development.

Despite those measures, however, women lagged far behind men, and their participation in the labour force was decreasing as a result of women's migration from rural to urban areas, and thus from the agricultural sector to the informal sector.

While the agricultural sector has shown some productivity gains since 2000, high logistics costs have constrained its impact.