In spite of the depth and variety of industrial activities in the region, agriculture has not been eclipsed.

In addition, FAO and UNDP assisted the Ministry of Agriculture in developing an agricultural revitalization programme to promote agricultural activities throughout the occupied Palestinian territory.

Section IV highlights recent activities related to organic agriculture, including activities of the International Task Force on Harmonization and Equivalence in Organic Agriculture and TC CB activities.

The ITF is an open ended platform for dialogue between private and public institutions involved in regulatory activities in the OA sector.

As well as carrying out domestic tasks, rural women take part in all socio economic activities, including agriculture, stock raising, handicrafts and petty trade.

In the area of agriculture and food, about one third of the activities reported by FAO are collaborative, primarily with non United Nations entities.

The projects vary in scope and cover a broad set of issues ranging from capacity building in agricultural and health issues to income generating activities and marketing strategies.

In the livestock production and development sector, women have primary responsibility for eight out of 14 processes while they also are also active in the remaining 6 activities. While agriculture and livestock are the predominant source of women's employment, home based income earning activities are alsoimportant.

The Myth of Organic Agriculture

Cultivation, production and manufacture

It increases the profitability of manufacturing and non traditional agricultural sectors, which are the activities with both the highest level of labor productivity and with the most rapid rates of productivity increase.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation of Egypt is a ministerial body in charge of agriculture and land reclamation in Egypt.

These revealed considerable interest in these countries in taking advantage of export opportunities, but equally important in using OA as a tool to contribute to sustainable rural development, food security and poverty reduction.

Algeria needs agriculture.

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.

Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries

(NSO, 2000a).

Agriculture and fishery

In the field of agriculture

Improvement of the competitiveness of Greek Agriculture

Development and modernization of the agricultural sector.

Agriculture and fisheries

Likewise, organic farming actually leaves a larger footprint than its conventional cousin.

Finland's agriculture was efficient and productive at least when compared with farming in other European countries.

Besides mining (21.8 of GDP) and agriculture (16 of GDP), dominant industries in the composition of GDP are wholesale and retail trade and service, transportation and storage, and real estate activities.

But how much is invested in agriculture matters less than the type of agriculture that we support.

Agriculture grew at better than eight percent.

Economy Agriculture dominates the economy of Calvados.

Creating a sustainable agricultural farming systems network

The forest ecosystem and forest resources

They only come back home at the farming season.

Women in agriculture2

Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries

Renewable energies from agriculture

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.

Meanwhile farming has evolved (in developed countries) in the direction of commercialization, economics of scale, and monocropping.

Agriculture in the Classroom (AITC) is a grassroots program coordinated by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Extensive farming or extensive agriculture (as opposed to intensive farming) is an agricultural production system that uses small inputs of labor, fertilizers, and capital, relative to the land area being farmed.

Women are substantially involved in activities realized under the two projects financed by the International Fund for Agriculture Development IFAD the Project for rehabilitation of the southern and eastern regions of the Republic of Macedonia IFAD 1 and the Project for financial services in agriculture IFAD 2.

It must be remembered that most poor people work in the primary sector and or in labour intensive activities (such as agriculture or the textile industry) and that these sectors are often those which face the greatest obstacles to international trade.

In the framework of the CBTF, several activities have been carried out geared towards promoting production and export of developing country OA products, including workshops in Brussels (2002) and Kingston, Jamaica (2003).

Agriculture in Angola has a tremendous potential.

The participants were trained in urban farming techniques.

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

(h) Supporting sustainable agriculture and combating desertification