Research efforts are aimed not only at raising the productivity of cropping systems but also at ensuring the sustainability of agriculture.

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

Research efforts are aimed not only at increasing the productivity of cropping systems but also at ensuring that agriculture is sustainable, with the promotion of production systems suited to semi arid and arid ecosystems.

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.

Typically, their subsistence is based on forest fallow shifting cultivation systems, gathering of wild plants, hunting, and use of forest vegetation for grazing of livestock.

In agroforestry systems, trees or shrubs are intentionally used within agricultural systems, or non timber forest products are cultured in forest settings.

In the Andean countries, the Office has supported generating agro industries with proven markets, producing cash and food crops, agroforestry productive systems and microenterprises.

The Myth of Organic Agriculture

Cultivation, production and manufacture

Some Parties indicated that adaptation policies in agriculture should also take into account issues relating to globalization of the world economy (e.g. Dominican Republic) as well as developing early warning systems for crop failure and introduction of new agricultural practices.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation of Egypt is a ministerial body in charge of agriculture and land reclamation in Egypt.

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Algeria needs agriculture.

The agriculture and fisheries sector has played a small role in the economy of Guam, accounting for less than 1 per cent of total private sector employment.

Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries

(NSO, 2000a).

Agriculture and fishery

In the field of agriculture

Improvement of the competitiveness of Greek Agriculture

Development and modernization of the agricultural sector.

Agriculture and fisheries

Likewise, organic farming actually leaves a larger footprint than its conventional cousin.

Finland's agriculture was efficient and productive at least when compared with farming in other European countries.

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But how much is invested in agriculture matters less than the type of agriculture that we support.

Reforms to patronage systems most often produce bureaucratic merit systems.

The same approach could apply to entire technology systems, for example oil recovery systems.

Agriculture grew at better than eight percent.

Economy Agriculture dominates the economy of Calvados.

Creating a sustainable agricultural farming systems network

The forest ecosystem and forest resources

They only come back home at the farming season.

Women in agriculture2

Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries

Renewable energies from agriculture

The extent of the revenue derived from tourism in many African countries and the crucial role of the effective management of freshwater ecosystems and protection of watershed systems in promoting sustainable agriculture and rural livelihoods underscore the importance attached to environmental issues by African Governments.

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.

Meanwhile farming has evolved (in developed countries) in the direction of commercialization, economics of scale, and monocropping.

Agriculture in the Classroom (AITC) is a grassroots program coordinated by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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