(a) Crop production

In 2003, farm production grew in terms of both crops and livestock.

Coca surveys in Bolivia, Colombia and Peru opium poppy surveys in Afghanistan, the Lao People's Democratic Republic and Myanmar and a cannabis survey in Morocco.

More food can be grown, reducing dependency on other countries for food.

In terms of crop management, the options include the development and introduction of tolerant resistant crops, pest and soil studies, better cropping or farming systems, improved irrigation techniques and crop rotation, as well as changes in the timing of planting of crops.

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Emphasis will be given to crop production and income generating activities in order to enhance self reliance.

Some studies show that women are responsible for 25 of the production of major crops and 30 for food.

As part of a survival strategy, crop producers in some countries have substituted traditional cash crops with plants used for the production of narcotics.

Increased production of agricultural crops for non food purposes offers the opportunity to utilize land that would have otherwise been an unexploited resource.

The system was designed to empower farmers, increase the yield of crops and reduce costs and pollution.

For the fifth consecutive year, rain shortfalls resulted in crop failure and poor livestock production.

It is the key to the worldwide increase in food production since the 1960 s.

Research efforts are aimed not only at increasing the productivity of cropping systems but also at ensuring that agriculture is sustainable.

The number of farmers reached by such schemes in illicit crop production areas is still insufficient.

Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT) is a software system that integrates crop growth models with crop, weather and soil data and estimates potential changes in crop yields and water use.

Ripples from the Zambezi, was a project where we Italians decided to teach Zambian people how to grow food.

(iv) Promoting the use of drought resistant crops and the application of integrated dry land farming systems for food security purposes

(iv) promoting the use of drought resistant crops and the application of integrated dry land farming systems for food security purposes

These are places where water is so scarce year after year that crop production is marginal at best.

These conditions render the rural population vulnerable to the influence of drug trafficking and increase dependence on illicit crop production.

The countries most affected by illicit crop cultivation need further capacity building, programme coordination, the establishment of monitoring and impact evaluation systems and long term socio economic development in order to sustain illicit crop eradication and alternative development efforts and to prevent the re emergence of illicit crops.

They have no margin for error, so they need to increase their chances of producing a crop.

Noting that efforts in American Samoa are currently aimed at increasing the production of food crops for local consumption,

In other instances, as family members fall ill, households shift from multi cropping systems that include cash crops, to less labour intensive subsistence farming, jeopardizing their food security.

Intercropping. Intercropping really increases income.

The larger the stocks of wood on earth, in the form of living trees or wooden construction material in buildings, the less CO2 there is in the atmosphere and the cooler the earth remains. So, taking land for the production of bio fuels from forests means speeding up global warming, because bio fuel crops store much less carbon than trees.

The result of these advantages is that higher yields of high quality produce are obtained over an extended period of cropping.

Increased efforts must be made to ensure that future industrial development is based on environmentally sustainable and economically appropriate production systems.

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Involving African women in decision making about crop production turns out to enable environmentally sustainable farming practices.

That said, many African countries are not self sufficient in food production, relying on income from cash crops to import food.

The threats to sustaining such systems, such as monoculture cash crop production, mineral extraction, environmental contamination and genetically modified seeds and technology, should be addressed.

Producing substantial crop yields without greenhouse gas generation from chemical inputs or intensive fossil fuel use is a challenge.

Both programmes have continued to provide direct assistance to irrigation, water supply, veterinary and crop production projects in each of the 29 provinces.

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Foreign investors hope to use large mechanized farms to produce output for export, leaving little or nothing for the local populations.

Drylands include all terrestrial regions where water scarcity limits the production of crops, forage, wood and other ecosystem provisioning services.

The crop prices used by Iran in calculating the value of lost crops are not appropriate for estimating the value of crops that were not, in fact, produced.

In contrast, production of tradeable goods largely based on primary commodities in Africa has tended to work against women, who predominate in the production of non tradeable food crops.

Pressure on water resources due to increased crop intensity brings about increased water resource competition in areas where water resources are scarce.

Iran estimates the alleged reduction in crop quality by comparing crop prices in the Southern Provinces in 1991 with national crop prices.

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(b) Reduced drop yields