The agricultural sector

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

(m) Taking steps towards ensuring that women's unpaid work and contributions to on farm and off farm production, including income generated in the informal sector, are recognized and supporting remunerative non agricultural employment of rural women, improving working conditions and increasing access to productive resources

(i) Taking steps towards ensuring that women's unpaid work and contributions to on farm and off farm production, including income generated in the informal sector, are visible, and supporting remunerative non agricultural employment of rural women, improving working conditions and increasing access to productive resources

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Temporary unskilled labour in the non agricultural sector (H2B visas) increased by 50 per cent in 2000 and reached 72,400 in 2001, double the number in 1999.

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

Effective participation of women in economic activities (agricultural production, informal sector), their reproductive role as well as the lack of adequate social health care service, do also influence the health of women.

Informal Sector

The agricultural sector is protected through high tariffs, tariff picks, tariff escalation and non tariff barriers in many developed countries, and market access is often denied to products from developing countries, including landlocked developing countries.

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.

This is the case for wage employment by sex and major industry group, the specific data needed for calculating the millennium development goal indicator, share of women in wage employment in the non agricultural sector .

This is a non contributory pension scheme for those integrating the family agriculture regime.

The knowledge and skills required for developing and implementing public private partnership projects are often lacking in the public sector, and the private sector is unaware of the potential of the public private partnership relationship.

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.

However, it is the female labor force that is the major participant in this production.

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.

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