Improving farm productivity.

Raising agricultural productivity.

The Ministry of Science and Technology of China, within its National High Tech R D Programme, initiated an Agricultural Expert System.

If increased agricultural productivity is necessary, so, too, is improved water management.

They cultivate very small plots of land, with very low agricultural productivity.

For most regions, weather changes will increase agricultural productivity.

The international community must support African efforts to increase agricultural productivity.

The result has been a disaster in Africa, with farm productivity stagnant for decades.

They are hungry because they lack the ability to buy high yield seeds, fertilizer, irrigation equipment, and other tools needed to increase productivity.

Growing populations, climactic change and natural disasters had profoundly affected agricultural productivity.

(f) Supporting the efforts of developing countries, individually and collectively, to harness new agricultural technologies in order to increase agricultural productivity through environmentally sustainable means

Supplement the efforts of developing countries, individually and collectively, to harness new agricultural technologies in order to increase agricultural productivity through environmentally sustainable means

The remarkable increase in agricultural productivity over the past two centuries demonstrates this clearly.

(b) Capacity building at the institutional and industry levels to enhance industrial productivity and marketing performance in the agro industrial sector

A water meadow (also water meadow or watermeadow) is an area of grassland subject to controlled irrigation to increase agricultural productivity.

Two tier crop rotation was practiced, but farm productivity was low, around 1 ton per hectare.

An emphasis is also placed on improving agricultural productivity by taking more account of interactions between different factors (such as soil, water, plant cover and technical methods).40.

The increased scarcity of common resources, as well as the erosion of biogenetic diversity and degradation of land, water and other public goods,19 affect the productivity and economic viability of women's work, both in farm and non farm activities.

NEPAD has formulated a Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme to improve agricultural productivity and reduce hunger throughout Africa.

The Green Revolution of the last century had a tremendous impact on agricultural yields and food production, transforming the lives of millions of people.

Medical advances made in the last 50 years as well as increased agricultural productivity brought about by the Green Revolution have caused India's population to grow rapidly.

The Angolan Civil War (1975 2002) and the consequent deterioration of the rural economy and neglect of the farming sector dealt the final blow to the country s agricultural productivity.

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.

Peasant farmers in Africa, Haiti, and other impoverished regions currently plant their crops without the benefit of high yield seed varieties and fertilizers.

(f) Support the efforts of developing countries, individually and collectively, to harness new agricultural technologies in order to increase agricultural productivity through environmentally sustainable means

During the meeting, the Chinese leaders emphasized their readiness to support agricultural research as well. They described new high yield rice varieties, which they are prepared to share with their African counterparts.

Human capital development cannot take place without proper schools and healthcare provisions agricultural productivity depends on, among other things, irrigation systems and land management.

Interventions to increase agricultural productivity to reduce poverty and hunger through greater extraction of water must be balanced with water conservation measures.

Mega agricultural operations often are responsible for poisoning our waterways and our land, and it produces this incredibly unhealthy product that costs us billions in healthcare and lost productivity.

(f) To support the efforts of developing countries, individually and collectively, to harness new agricultural technologies in order to increase agricultural productivity through environmentally sustainable means

When Borlaug received news of the award, at four in the morning, he was already toiling in the Mexican fields, in his never ending quest to improve agricultural productivity.

The region's greatest potential lies in the agro industry sector with the food, leather, textile and wood sectors having been identified by NEPAD and APCI as the priority subsectors.

Lastly, measures to prevent the spread of HIV are crucial in forestalling the potentially devastating effects that the HIV AIDS epidemic, by debilitating or reducing the agricultural labour force, can have on agricultural productivity.

Through the use of radiation mutation to create new varieties of barley and rice, and the active involvement of Peruvian farmers in the breeding process, agricultural productivity and income have increased.

Such measures, combined with efforts to raise agricultural productivity in developing countries, will contribute to relieving pressure on natural resources.

In that region, increases in agricultural productivity, reductions in population growth, improved governance and economic growth would together serve to reduce poverty and hunger.

Supplement the efforts of African countries, individually and collectively, to increase agricultural productivity in a sustainable way as part of an African green revolution to be launched in 2005

A study by the Overseas Development Institute evaluates the benefits of the Malawi Government Agricultural Inputs Subsidy Programme, which was implemented in 2006 2007 to promote access to and use of fertilizers in both maize and tobacco production to increase agricultural productivity and food security.

The problem is that, having neglected food security and the productive sectors of their economies for several decades, many developing countries governments now lack the fiscal capacity to increase public spending in order to increase food production and agricultural productivity.

Soaring food prices before the global financial crisis provided a warning, as does the slowing rate of growth of agricultural productivity.

(g) To supplement the efforts of African countries, individually and collectively, to increase agricultural productivity, in a sustainable way, as set out in the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme of the New Partnership for Africa's Development as part of an African Green Revolution

Supplement the efforts of African countries, individually and collectively, to increase agricultural productivity, in a sustainable way, as part of an African Green Revolution to be launched in 2005

The fact that the green revolution never came to the world s poorest continent, where agricultural productivity is just one third the level in Asia, suggests that there is ample room for improvement.

In a hungry and poor rural economy, as China was in the 1970 s and as most of Africa is today, a key starting point is to raise farm productivity.

Among the reforms will be tax policies aimed at boosting rural purchasing power, measures to broaden rural land ownership, and technology led programs to raise agricultural productivity.