Conservation agriculture promises economic and environmental benefits.

Such a strategy gives agriculture based economies such as ours the option of sourcing our own energy and raising the incomes of farmers at the same time.

The OECD is located in Paris, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, and the list goes on.

Through conservation agriculture practices, farmers contribute to reducing emissions while combating land degradation.

For example, switching from traditional till agriculture to a more climate friendly agricultural practice such as conservation agriculture may result in decreased crop yields for the first few seasons while farmers perfect their techniques.

IFAD supported a workshop in March 2004 on innovations and participatory research in farming with emphasis on natural resource management and preventing land degradation.

California In response to the recession of 2008, a coalition of community based organizations, farmers, and academic institutions in California's Pomona Valley formed the Pomona Valley Urban Agriculture Initiative.

Initiatives for the rehabilitation of degraded land in the context of reforestation, agricultural productivity, integrated farming and animal husbandry, rain water catchments, alternative renewable energies or the banning of slash and burn practices are reported to show positive results.

Economy Agriculture dominates the economy of Calvados.

Agro ecology points to solutions, but strong support from governments is needed to scale up existing best practices.

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

The participants were trained in urban farming techniques.

Many Parties expressed a need for applied research to identify and transfer appropriate technologies to increase crop productivity, and to conduct investigations of the use of drought resistant or salt resistant crop varieties, international cooperation to study possible sources of pest introduction, and methods of biological or chemical control for pests in several regions.

Stem cell derived retinal transplants, now in a research phase, may one day restore vision, or part vision, to millions of patients with retinal diseases worldwide.

Economy The economy of the town depends on agriculture, trade, services.

As such, Rome's economy remained focused on farming and trade.

Successful agriculture is dependent upon farmers having sufficient access to water.

Bananas and other agriculture dominate Dominica's economy, and nearly one third of the labour force works in agriculture.

Definition of results based management and results based budgeting

Economy Most families depend on agriculture as their primary source of income.

Economy The economy on Weh Island is dominated by agriculture.

14. Emphasizes the need to promote the development of microenterprises and small and medium sized enterprises, including by means of training, education and skills enhancement, with a special focus on agro industry as a provider of livelihoods for rural communities

But Europe s focus must be on encouraging the development of local agriculture.

Agriculture depends on perfusion or through the rivers and the wells and the rains.

The Myth of Organic Agriculture

Cultivation, production and manufacture

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

Without her help, I might not have farmed at all.

Their economy was traditionally based on camel herding along with a little agriculture.

Ethiopia had also adopted an integrated rural development strategy, which focused on the medium term, and a sustainable development and poverty reduction strategy.

Since the early 1990 s, many poor countries food bills have soared five or six fold, owing not only to population growth, but also to their focus on export led agriculture.

In Uganda, the integrated programme had contributed towards the Government's national goal of poverty alleviation, enhanced economic growth through promotion of micro and small scale enterprises and improved the competitiveness and sustainability of agro based industries.

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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.

The economy is heavily based in agriculture, with a largely rural population.

Health and agriculture will be considered only on a highly selective basis.