Agricultural Development Association, Gaza

62 190. Agricultural technology for development

Encouraging agricultural growth is therefore an important aspect of agricultural policy in the developing world.

Α. OPERATIONAL PROGRAMME AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT RE STRUCTURING THE COUNTRYSIDE

International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development

State of the environment and contribution of the United Nations Environment Programme to addressing substantive environmental challenges

In recent years, the Vietnamese Government attaches great importance to agricultural and rural development.

Agricultural subsidies by industrial countries had a negative effect on development in Benin.

These should be governing principles in designing all agro policy, economic, agro technical and zoo technical measures for sustainable development of agriculture and food production in future.

Africa was working with determination to expand its agriculture, as it had demonstrated by adopting the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme and its commitment to allocate 10 per cent of national budgets to agricultural development.

Basic goal of the Community Initiative LEADER for agricultural development is to promote the development of agricultural areas, to urge local societies to create opportunities for new forms of employment.

But over the past 20 years, support for agricultural development has been declining. Only 4 of public development assistance is now earmarked for agriculture.

Regarding paragraph 29, there should be renewed focus on agricultural and rural development in particular, the least developed countries must increase their exports of commodities and agricultural produce.

Thousands of hectares of agricultural land were not exploited because of the danger of mines, thereby substantially impeding the economic development of those regions.

In 2003, through the Ministry for Agrarian Development (MDA), the Government made joint title to land a reality.

Since that growth would inevitably be based on agro processing, industrial development was the key to Malawi's socio economic development.

In the late 1970s, wells were drilled at Kufra and at Sabha as part of a major agricultural development effort.

Specifically, we need decisions that are pro development and pro trade liberalization and that end agricultural export subsidies.

In Tunisia, IFAD is contributing to the NAP implementation by building synergies between the IFAD Agro Pastoral Development and Local Initiatives Promotion Programme for the South East (PRODESUD).

Recognizing the critical role and contribution of rural women in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty,

Τhe Operational Programme Agricultural Development Restructuring the countryside 2000 2006 is the programme of the National part of the 3rd Community Support Framework.

7 Filling the data gap Gender sensitive statistics for agricultural development, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999.

Improving the situation of rural women through economic advancement is one of the fundamental objectives of the Agricultural Development Policy Letter (ADPL).

As we heard today from many speakers, preparations and consultations for example for the rollout of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme have been concluded.

There has been a welcome increase in interest in Africa's priorities, especially the Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Programme and the new international consortium on infrastructure.

Agricultural development efforts should, therefore, focus on promoting the growth and sustainability of smallholder farmers and small rural businesses.

On this basis, FAO will continue its activities with particular emphasis on food security within the framework of agricultural and rural development.

Sustainable agricultural development is essential to improving the country s prospects for long term economic and food security.

The zones could combine integrated rural development for domestic consumption and labor intensive manufacturing and agro businesses for export.

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

Our gratitude also goes to the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom and the International Fund for Agricultural Development for other initiatives in support of the Programme.

In that context, intensive consultations are ongoing to speed up the implementation of the Short term Action Plan for infrastructure and the CAADP.

Financial institutions such as the Zarai Taraquiati Bank of Pakistan (Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan), the First Women Bank Limited, other commercial banks and a number of public financial institutions extend credit to women.

Recognizing the critical role and contribution of rural women in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty,

In the past, agricultural development has prioritized large scale, capitalized forms of agriculture, neglecting smallholders who feed local communities.

This is needed to address the infrastructure bottlenecks that are holding back investment by companies in other sectors and slowing the development of agriculture.

Much of the natural habitat in the low lying areas of western Georgia has disappeared during the past 100 years because of the agricultural development of the land and urbanization.

In economics, the Dutch disease is the apparent relationship between the increase in the economic development of natural resources and a decline in the manufacturing sector (or agriculture).

The Ministry for Agrarian Development and the INCRA, in partnership with other governmental bodies, including the Special Secretariat on Policies for Women, develops the Program.

The Framework Agreement sets out five core areas that include, in addition to agriculture, market access on non agricultural products, services, development issues and trade facilitation.

The Centro para el Desarrollo Agrícola y Forestal (CEDAF) organized the fifth meeting of the Technical Cooperation Network on Plant Biotechnology, which was followed by a Rice Route field day.

This could be done through diversifying production and changing the focus to non agricultural sectors so as to benefit economic development and environmental sustainability.

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.

In 2004, the Brazilian Government, through the Ministry for Agrarian Development, formulated a public policy named Technical Assistance and Rural Extension (ATER), implemented through a program and the formulation and implementation of preferential conditions to facilitate the access of rural workingwomen to agricultural policies.

Finally, farmers organizations, which are crucial intermediaries between producers and corporate investors, must be involved in the formulation of plans and policies aimed at agricultural development.