Agriculture is an important sector in California's economy.

Agriculture Many Parties reported that agriculture is the second largest source of emissions after the energy sector.

Agriculture in Germany is a small sector of the German economy.

The Minister of Agriculture stressed the absorptive capacity of the sector.

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

Investment in agriculture in Africa must focus on creating a dynamic smallholder sector.

In 2003, more than 200,000 Cubans worked in the expanding urban agriculture sector.

Another sector characterized by large migratory flows of indigenous groups is hazardous agriculture.

The service sector is the largest component of GDP at 63 , followed by the industry sector at 23.8 and the agriculture sector at 13.2 (2010 est.).

Indeed, India has leapfrogged over the manufacturing sector, going straight from agriculture into services.

All Parties consider agriculture a key vulnerable sector, as the majority of their populations still depend on this sector for their livelihood.

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

Chinese agriculture provides another example of tension between private entrepreneurship and public sector ownership of assets.

Agriculture, including fishing, hunting, and forestry, is the leading sector of the economy, and 38.4 of the working population is employed in the primary sector.

Sectoral synthesis Seventy initial national communications indicated that the energy sector was the largest source of GHG emissions for 45 Parties it was the agriculture sector and for six the waste sector.

Economy Agriculture, dominated by banana production, is the most important sector of this lower middle income economy.

Certainly, many workers, specially in agriculture, have no other choice but to work in the informal sector.

The agriculture and fisheries sector has played a small role in the economy of Guam, accounting for less than 1 per cent of total private sector employment.

Canada's services sector comprises 78 of the country's GDP (estimated in 2010), industry comprises 20 and agriculture comprises 2 .

Further consultations with the organic sector took place in the context of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) Conference on Organic Agriculture and Biodiversity and the IFOAM Organic Coffee Conference.

In 2010, economic output was dominated by the service sector which accounted for 66 of GDP, followed by the industrial sector with 27.2 and agriculture accounting for 6.8 of GDP.

Although the service sector has recently overtaken mining and agriculture as the leading employer of Dominicans (due principally to growth in tourism and Free Trade Zones), agriculture remains the most important sector in terms of domestic consumption and is in second place, behind mining, in terms of export earnings.

The important effects are on agriculture and tourism, where nations will lose, on average, about 0.5 of GDP from each sector.

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

The United States' services sector comprises 76.7 of the country's GDP (estimated in 2010), industry comprises 22.2 and agriculture comprises 1.2 .

Progress also depends on sector strategies, including strategies for agriculture, infrastructure, forestry, fisheries, energy and transport, which all require environmental safeguards.

An agriculture ministry (also called an agriculture department, agriculture board, agriculture council, or agriculture agency) is a ministry charged with agriculture.

The situation in the private sector was less encouraging, with women holding 12 per cent of executive positions in the textile sector, 8 per cent in the banking and insurance sector, only a few executive jobs in the construction sector and none at all in agriculture.

The panellist from the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture said that agricultural smallholders were in fact private sector actors, not aid recipients.

At the time of its independence in 1960, DRC was the second most industrialized country in Africa after South Africa it boasted a thriving mining sector and its agriculture sector was relatively productive.

Chinese officials stressed the crucial role of public investments, especially in agriculture and infrastructure, to lay the basis for private sector led growth.

The industry sector is the economy's largest and accounts for 46.4 of GDP (2012), this is followed by services (38.6 ) and agriculture (14.4 ).

Agriculture is a key sector for the economies of landlocked developing countries with regard to poverty reduction and achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

As a result, the South became even more dependent on plantations and slavery, with plantation agriculture becoming the largest sector of the Southern economy.

The information gathered from the exercise will lay the foundation for the development of a national recovery and rehabilitation plan for the agriculture sector.

They also recognize that poverty is much more widespread among women, thus increasingly compelling them to find livelihoods in agriculture or the informal sector.

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) focuses on initiatives to move women from subsistence agriculture to the manufacturing sector through off farm productive activities.

We therefore urge that their implementation be accelerated, particularly in the areas of financing for infrastructural development, agriculture and capacity building in the public sector.

Many countries reported that their ministries responsible for the environment, energy and agriculture conduct sector specific research on GHG inventories, vulnerability, and the ozone layer.

Above all, they need a long term commitment to agriculture from their own governments, the international community, and the private sector, backed up by greater investment.

In spite of the importance of agriculture as the driving force in the economies of many developing countries, this vital sector is frequently starved of investment.

The main bottleneck in the WTO negotiations is related to the agriculture sector, which is the principle source of livelihood for the poor in developing countries.

Mr. Anthony Nyong, University of Jos, Nigeria, presented particularities of technologies for adaptation in the water and agriculture sector through a case study in the Sahel.

Indeed, agriculture remains the primary productive sector in the world s poorest countries, employing 65 of the working population and, on average, contributing more than 25 to GDP.

The agriculture of Angola is currently expanding due to the end of the Angolan Civil War in 2002, and the growth of foreign investment in the sector.