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Indeed, the accelerating expansion of deserts will likely lead to a decrease of agricultural yields from the surrounding areas, acute deterioration of the availability of water, and possibly to further conflicts and displacement of people.
They have also taken important steps in three crucial areas: agricultural usage, diagnostics, and the market for new useful drugs.
Last but not least, diverting vast tracts of agricultural land into fuel production has contributed to a doubling of prices for wheat and other grains.
And Ukraine’s potential as an agricultural producer is equally impressive.
The report, which focuses on the cost to the United States of its failure to act on climate change, indicates that up to a half-trillion dollars of US property, and some 70% of agricultural output, will be subject to climate risks this century.
More thoughtful urban planning, more efficient transport systems, better management of forests, agricultural techniques that help to sequester carbon, cleaner and more affordable energy, and appropriate pricing of dirty fuels can all move us in the right direction.
America, too, historically had problems as a single-currency area, from early chaos before the Constitution to the clash between agricultural and banking interests over the gold standard in the late nineteenth century.
After decades of wrenching technological and social change, the old ways of connecting, geared to an agricultural society, were inadequate to addressing the problems plaguing America at the century’s turn.
In recent decades, senior military officers have been transformed into powerful landlords through grants of choice agricultural lands and real estate.
India also offers important experience in agricultural expansion, clean water management, and confronting the growing threat of climate change.
The myth of Israel’s military power, resourcefulness in economic and agricultural matters, and an exaggerated perception of its unique capacity to lobby and influence American policy combined to make the Israeli connection especially attractive to these countries.
Ethics and AgricultureMELBOURNE – Should rich countries – or investors based there – be buying agricultural land in developing countries?
The report shows that since 2000, investors or state bodies in rich or emerging countries have bought more than 83 million hectares (more than 200 million acres) of agricultural land in poorer developing countries.
This amounts to 1.7% of the world’s agricultural land.
The purchases in Africa alone amount to an area of agricultural land the size of Kenya.
Why does the purchase of body parts give rise to international condemnation, while the purchase of agricultural land does not – even when it involves evicting local landholders and producing food for export to rich countries instead of for local consumption?
If so, the 21 complaints made against Bank projects are most likely the visible tip of a vast iceberg of violations of land rights by foreign investors in agricultural projects in developing countries – with the others remaining invisible because victims have no access to any complaint procedure.
The fund would jump-start forestry, land-use, and agricultural projects – areas that offer the greatest scope for reducing or mitigating carbon emissions, and that could produce substantial returns from carbon markets.
Returns from land-use projects, for example, could also include the potential to create more sustainable rural livelihoods, enable higher and more resilient agricultural yields, and generate rural employment.
The most glaring injustice in this respect has been the failure of the US and the European Union to deliver substantially on their promises of market access to agricultural exports from poor countries.
Clearly, when developed countries’ agricultural sectors shed workers, long-term structural unemployment did not result.
Given the degree of suffering caused by mosquito-borne diseases, government leaders must not subject genetic-engineering solutions for controlling them to the same kinds of political and populist headwinds that have impeded the approval of genetically engineered agricultural products.
On the contrary, there is some evidence that beneficiary households increased their participation in microenterprise activities and made larger investments in agricultural production activities.
But agricultural subsidies have consequences for China and other developing countries.
Were China to revalue its currency, its farmers would be worse off; but in a world of free(r) trade, US farm subsidies translate into lower global agricultural prices, and thus lower prices for Chinese farmers.
At the same time, many of the development challenges in the foreseeable future – climate change, low agricultural productivity, growing water scarcity – are increasingly global in nature.
But senior members of the US Congress have stressed that a successful agreement must include opening the EU market to all US agricultural products.
Beyond the human costs, higher temperatures would undermine agricultural and industrial productivity.
Growth in India’s agricultural sector declined from a lackluster 3.8% to an even more anemic 2.6% last year.
A policy of expanding legitimate micro-lending schemes and prosecuting illegal loan sharks, not to mention the promotion of sustainable agricultural practices that require fewer expensive (and environmentally dangerous) inputs, would do far more to help India’s poorest farmers than this expensive and misguided measure.
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