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Almost 60 years later, agricultural employment in the US peaked at 53% of total employment.
In fact, since as recently as 1980, most countries have experienced large declines in agricultural employment.
In some, like Portugal, Malaysia, Turkey, and Indonesia, the share of agricultural employment declined by more than 20%.
Given the vast economic and social benefits of a dynamic and modern agricultural sector, providing farmers with the incentives, investments, and regulations that they need to succeed should become a top priority.
In such a context, the continent’s agricultural sector could unleash a revolution akin to that fueled by the communications industry.
Private firms have begun to channel investment toward Africa’s agricultural sector, including through initiatives like Grow Africa (of which I am co-Chair), which facilitates cooperation between national governments and more than a hundred local, regional, and international companies to achieve targets for agricultural growth.
Over the last two years, these firms have pledged more than $7.2 billion in agricultural investment.
From Ghana to Rwanda, high levels of agricultural investment are fueling impressive economic growth in rural areas, thereby boosting job creation and reducing poverty and hunger.
To sustain them, African governments must recommit to the African Union’s Maputo Declaration on Agriculture and Food Security, which includes a pledge to channel at least 10% of their budgets toward agricultural investment.
Mobile technology has already begun to transform Africa’s agricultural industry, by providing farmers with valuable information like market prices, input support through e-vouchers, and even access to credit.
Finally, private-sector actors, farmers’ organizations, and civil-society groups must cooperate to advance agricultural development.
A third category of natural solution is agricultural reform.
One way to get things moving, especially in the agricultural sector, would be to remove or redirect subsidies that encourage excessive consumption of fertilizers, water, or energy in food production.
As Indian government officials reminded their peers during a World Trade Organization meeting earlier this year, meaningful agricultural reforms can begin only when rich countries reduce the “disproportionately large” subsidies they give their own farmers.
Most black particles stem from small-scale and inefficient burning of biofuels, and, in Asia and Africa, from the burning of agricultural waste.
DDT was subsequently banned for agricultural use worldwide under the 2001 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, which stigmatized the chemical and effectively constituted a prohibition.
In 2000, the World Bank estimated that OECD agricultural protectionism cost the developing world $20 billion in welfare losses annually.
First, farming is geographically concentrated and farmers vote on agricultural policy above everything else, greatly enhancing the power of their votes – something that few, if any, urban consumers do.
Second, protectionists have developed populist but logically questionable arguments that agricultural staples cannot be treated as tradable commodities subject to competition.
Japan has long been the paragon of rich-country agricultural protectionism.
Farmers are well organized politically, and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF) has been a fierce defender of agricultural protectionism.
Ironically, Japan now offers a seed of hope for agricultural liberalization.
Now the Japanese government, supporting the reformers at the MAFF, is using free-trade deals and negotiations with competitive exporters like Thailand and Australia to pursue agricultural consolidation.
Moreover, climate change threatens to reduce agricultural output by up to 40% by 2080, when India will have another 450 million people.
In response to increased trade restrictions, China could limit imports of aircraft or agricultural products such as soybeans from the US.
Africa has a surplus of agricultural labor and too few other jobs.
Car use drives up food prices, because oil is a key agricultural input.
To one degree or another, all depend on access to foreign markets to sell their manufactured goods, agricultural products, resources, or services – or to supply them.
For starters, the lack of capital makes it difficult for women to buy quality seeds and fertilizer, or even to access farmland, which in turn reduces agricultural productivity.
Similarly, among World Trade Organization members, China has made the deepest commitment to liberalization of services, India has raised the issue of wider services liberalization, and Brazil has been decisive in cracking American and European agricultural protection.
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