However, the size and importance of the informal sector as a source of employment and work extends beyond the agricultural sector.

The agricultural sector

1. Agricultural sector

Agricultural Sector Management 24.50 Project

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.

34. Similarly, the food security situation in the region is precarious owing to a weak agricultural sector.

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

Review of the portfolio of agricultural projects in Central America

the agricultural sector and for the national food programme of

cooperating community for the agricultural sector

52. The Department of Agriculture is responsible for the regulation and development of the agricultural sector.

It is no accident that the tertiary sector, the service sector, is growing while the secondary sector (industry) stagnates and the primary sector (agriculture) nearly disappears.

57. Guam apos s agricultural sector is the smallest sector in the economy.

Developing economic activities of a para agricultural or non agricultural type

developing economic activities of a para agricultural or non agricultural type

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

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.

Providing policy advice to several small island developing States in agricultural sector reviews, and on agricultural trade and agricultural diversification.

It will end unfair agricultural subsidies.

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 rapid development of the agricultural sector had been of central importance in Indonesia in combating poverty.

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

As a consequence, over the years a large proportion of donor financing has focused on the agricultural sector.

60. The Guam Department of Agriculture is responsible for supervising all activities of the agricultural sector.

33. The vigorous creation of job opportunities in the social sector, i.e., in non agriculture and in urban areas, brought the persistently shrinking share of farm labour down to 22.2 per cent in 1991.

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

Despite great efforts, delegations had been unable to find a more appropriate wording and it had therefore been decided to omit the words in the non farm sector .

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.

Reference was also made to the need to modernize the agricultural sector in developing countries, particularly in Africa.

Project proposals for immediate intervention were formulated to assist in the rehabilitation of the agricultural sector.

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(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

(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

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.

The revised agricultural sector law of Honduras promoted gender mainstreaming to increase women's access to land.

The placement of millions of mines throughout the country makes it impossible to revive the agricultural sector.