Development and modernization of the agricultural sector.

We have opportunities in agriculture, like I said.

Agriculture in Germany is a small sector of the German economy.

Almost 48 percent of the population is dependent on agriculture.

The service sector is the largest component of GDP at 63 , followed by the industry sector at 23.8 and the agriculture sector at 13.2 (2010 est.).

The developed countries encourage the adoption of modern technologies in the agricultural sector and crop diversification.

African Parties submitted 75 per cent of the project proposals in the agricultural sector.

Although the service sector has recently overtaken mining and agriculture as the leading employer of Dominicans (due principally to growth in tourism and Free Trade Zones), agriculture remains the most important sector in terms of domestic consumption and is in second place, behind mining, in terms of export earnings.

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.

In 2003, more than 200,000 Cubans worked in the expanding urban agriculture sector.

In Nepal, for example, opportunities exist in the agricultural sector (tea gardening and herbal medicine).

Agriculture Many Parties reported that agriculture is the second largest source of emissions after the energy sector.

Limited progress has been made in the non agricultural labour market and in political life.

There is thus a need for and a general move in the direction of harmonization, equivalence and mutual recognition in the organic sector.

This should lead to a change in the relationship the agricultural sector and community have with Governments, society and the environment.

The government abolished its farm collectivization program in 1981, allowing a greater role for private enterprise in agriculture.

The information gathered from the exercise will lay the foundation for the development of a national recovery and rehabilitation plan for the agriculture sector.

Investment in agriculture in Africa must focus on creating a dynamic smallholder sector.

We have the tools to prevent food crises by making smart, long term investments in agriculture.

The construction sector is also an important contributor to the economy, while the farming and fishing sectors are relatively well developed.

Most of the adaptation options identified for agriculture relate to crop management, land management, and soil and water conservation.

In the United Kingdom, the people who work in agriculture are only 1.5 per cent of the working population.

Eighty per cent of the population depends on agriculture for a livelihood and it provides employment for 85 per cent of all working women.

The situation in the private sector was less encouraging, with women holding 12 per cent of executive positions in the textile sector, 8 per cent in the banking and insurance sector, only a few executive jobs in the construction sector and none at all in agriculture.

Parties referred to technological options for improving irrigation systems some other Parties mentioned policy options such as the imposition of standards, reforms in agriculture, development of a free market and promotion of investments in farming.

Contributions also come from agriculture and out of budget transfers (Entities, cantons and municipalities) for certain categories of the population and for certain purposes.

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

However, since 2012, the service sector has employed more people than other sectors, accounting for 48.9 of the total labour force, this has been followed by agriculture (38.6 ) and industry (22.2 ).

The Angolan Civil War (1975 2002) and the consequent deterioration of the rural economy and neglect of the farming sector dealt the final blow to the country s agricultural productivity.

Certainly, many workers, specially in agriculture, have no other choice but to work in the informal sector.

The WFP has made significant investments in the agricultural sector in order to strengthen food security among impoverished farmers and to improve agricultural productivity and incomes.

Raising farm productivity and income requires improved irrigation, wasteland reclamation, warehousing, marketing, transport development, and the free movement of produce within the country.

The important effects are on agriculture and tourism, where nations will lose, on average, about 0.5 of GDP from each sector.

The target groups include, for instance, workers in the agricultural, fisheries and forestry sectors, household workers and self employed persons such as drivers, farmers, and home workers.

Possible examples in the agricultural sector include improved manure management, reduction of enteric fermentation, improved fertilizer usage or improved water management in rice cultivation.

A team of six from the Ministry of Agriculture continued receiving technical support in the application of isotope and radiation technologies to control and monitor the Mediterranean fruit fly population in the Gaza Strip.

For female workers who suffered occupational injuries diseases, again agriculture dominated with 71.2 followed by the manufacturing 14.7 , community, social and personal services (9.1 ) and wholesale retail trade (3.1 ).

Adoption ( apadrinamiento in Spanish, apadrinament in Catalan, parrainage in French) of a farm plant or animal is a method of commercial sponsorship in the farming and cattle raising sector.

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 second meeting, hosted by UNCTAD (Geneva, October 2003), reviewed the current situation in the organic sector and models and mechanisms for harmonization, equivalency and mutual recognition drawn from other sectors.

There is no flow of expertise (guidelines), marketing, management, global strategy, support to guaranteed prices development, single business policy, information system, education, scientific and expert institutions, legislation, or standardization of plans and programmes.

If the number of complaints is related to sectoral export value, the agriculture and food sectors turn out to be the ones with the largest number of NTB complaints in relative terms, followed by mining and textiles. In general, OECD survey findings show that businesses worldwide feel constrained in their ability to access foreign markets by a broad set of NTBs and other kinds of obstacles.

Historically, agriculture has driven economic performance in many countries, generating growth that has been shown to be at least twice as effective in reducing poverty as growth in other sectors.

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