The agricultural sector

Since the 1930s, the agricultural sector had been subject to price controls.

2 According to available estimates, women make up 30 per cent of the agricultural sector, 17 per cent of the non agricultural sector and 20 per cent of the civil service.

Indicator 11 Women's share in paid employment in non agrarian sector

Nicaragua developed an information system for the agricultural sector that provides data by sex.

18.7 The ESCWA region is suffering from a scarcity of water resources and their inefficient use, which is manifested in wasteful consumption patterns, particularly in the agricultural sector.

The agricultural sector accounts for about two fifths of exports, and half of the labor force.

In Asia, the rate of urbanization had been less rapid because of agricultural sector development.

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

Once the agricultural sector of the USSR was collectivized, the hunger began.

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

The agricultural sector remained important, but manufacturing exports should also be strengthened.

The agricultural sector presently represent 21 of absorption of the total credit made available to the Mozambican economy.

These measures have the double advantage of increasing long term crop productivity and enhancing uptake of CO2 from the atmosphere or abating CO2 emissions.

Women working in the informal and agricultural sectors were particularly badly off.

In accordance with the agricultural framework, negotiations are to encompass all trade distorting policies affecting the sector.

Over the last 25 years, Ghana s agricultural sector has grown at an average annual rate of 5 .

The growth was fuelled by strong private investments in bauxite alumina, tourism, manufacturing industry and, to a lesser extent, the agricultural sector.

) The way to overcome poverty in Bosnia and Herzegovina is, inter alia, the development of the agricultural sector.

Cuba had taken measures to facilitate SME access to credit, particularly in the agricultural sector.

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

In 2007, Hurricane Dean caused significant damage to the agricultural sector as well as the country's infrastructure, especially roads.

Another outcome of the Missed Opportunities Harnessing the Potential of Women in Australian Agriculture project is the Rural Research and Development Corporation Rural Women's Award.

Despite those measures, however, women lagged far behind men, and their participation in the labour force was decreasing as a result of women's migration from rural to urban areas, and thus from the agricultural sector to the informal sector.

While the agricultural sector has shown some productivity gains since 2000, high logistics costs have constrained its impact.

The result today is a thriving agricultural sector, which is growing at more than 5 a year, and hunger levels that fell by 75 from 1990 2004.

Over the past decades, the shares of the industrial and services sectors in the region's total GDP have increased significantly, while the share of the agricultural sector has declined.

From the outset of the war the industry of Kyrgyzstan was restructured for wartime production, and the entire agricultural sector of the Republic was working for the front.

He wondered whether forced and bonded child labour was still an issue and whether it occurred mainly in the agricultural sector.

Lack of unified village development policy deters investments in farming, while possibilities for other kinds of employment in rural areas are minimal.

The bulk of the world's labour force worked in the agricultural sector and three quarters of the working poor were in developing countries.

The proportion of women employed in the non agricultural sector rose from 35 per cent in 1989 to 37 per cent in 2000.

In this respect, the relationship between international trade and environment is of great importance in the effort to stimulate activities in the rural sector of developing countries affected by desertification

By expanding the use of bioenergies, the farming and forestry sector in Germany is making an important contribution to fulfilling national climate protection obligations.

The three main areas in which the Organization enjoyed a comparative advantage were private sector development with efficient, and therefore sustainable, use of natural resources trade capacity building and the creation of productive capacities in the non agricultural sector.

Of the country's total labor force of around 40.813 Million, the agricultural sector employs close to 32 of the labor force, and accounts for 14 of GDP.

Also, before Hurricane Katrina, the region supported approximately one million non farm jobs, with 600,000 of them in New Orleans.

Annual growth of 1.2 in the agricultural sector, which employs 60 of the population, cannot provide for a population that is growing at more than twice that rate.

FAO also assisted the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the development of an agricultural statistics system for the collection and analysis of agricultural sector data.

The last general population census conducted in Guinea found, for example, that Guinean women are active in all productive sectors, but predominantly in agriculture.

The programmes financed by many developed countries lay the emphasis on modernizing the agricultural sector, promoting agricultural, forestry and pastoral production systems, and supporting the processing and marketing of products.

The Australian Government, through the Rural Research and Development Corporation, will be reviewing the Missed Opportunities Harnessing the Potential of Women in Australian Agriculture project in 2006 2007.

(d) Unfortunately, in Canada, a comprehensive strategy to address high energy costs in the agricultural sector or to encourage sustainable energy use on farms has not been developed.

Abolition in 1846 of the Corn Laws, which had propped up the declining agricultural sector, facilitated structural shifts, first toward manufacturing and then toward services, notably financial services.

With their long tradition in the region there are now about 8,100 cooperatives, generally in the agricultural sector and mainly located in the provinces of Bologna (2,160) and Forlì Cesena (1,300).