Development and modernization of the agricultural sector.

The agricultural sector

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

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

FAO also assisted the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the development of an agricultural statistics system for the collection and analysis of agricultural sector data.

Rural and agricultural development

Agricultural Development Association, Gaza

Countries that are experiencing significant agricultural growth, such as Brazil and Thailand, have benefited from public sector investment in research and infrastructure development.

International Fund for Agricultural Development

The International Fund for Agricultural Development sees enormous potential in Africa s agricultural sector, which experienced 4.8 growth in 2009, compared to 3.8 in the Asia Pacific region and only 1.4 in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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.

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

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

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

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AOAD Arab Organization for Agricultural Development

IFAD International Fund for Agricultural Development

IFAD International Fund for Agricultural Development

C. International Fund for Agricultural Development

C. Arab Organization for Agricultural Development

IFAD International Fund for Agricultural Development

India remains largely an agricultural economy, dotted with small business and service sector dynamism.

African Parties submitted 75 per cent of the project proposals in the agricultural sector.

These laws do not for the moment cover the informal or the agricultural sector.

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

Ms. Vanda Altarelli, International Fund for Agricultural Development

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.

Private sector development

Private sector development

The Government attached great importance to private sector development of agricultural markets, rural microfinance institutions and domestic credit markets, improvement of land tenure security and expansion of transport links.

In Nepal, for example, opportunities exist in the agricultural sector (tea gardening and herbal medicine).

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

The WFP has made significant investments in the agricultural sector in order to strengthen food security among impoverished farmers and to improve agricultural productivity and incomes.

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C. Development of sustainable agricultural production and stockbreeding methods

C. Development of sustainable agricultural production and stockbreeding methods

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Multi sector development support

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

The developed countries encourage the adoption of modern technologies in the agricultural sector and crop diversification.

BRUSSELS The World Bank, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Secretariat recently presented seven Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investment.

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.

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

Table 2. Measures to abate the increase of greenhouse gases in the agricultural sector in select Parties