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Geographical initiatives, like the European Development Fund (EDF), support implementation of agricultural policies in the African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries (the Development Cooperation Instrument provides similar support in Latin America, Asia, and South Africa).
Similarly, two Food Facility projects in Mozambique, worth a total of €2.5 million, are benefiting almost 50,000 farmers and nearly 300,000 rural families by increasing agricultural production, improving conditions for commercializing products, and addressing food security issues that affect rural households.
Indeed, by promoting agricultural practices and technologies that are environmentally sustainable and raise rural incomes, these policies also stimulate rural non-farm activities.
European spending on export refunds has declined considerably in recent years – from 30% of agricultural expenditure in the early 1990’s to less than 1% today (if rural development is excluded).
Notably, the liberalization of the agricultural and energy sectors was much more comprehensive in Ukraine than in Russia.
The Motlanthe high-level panel’s proposals include strengthening land administration systems in informal settlements and traditional council areas, and facilitation of the subdivision of agricultural land.
Excessive population growth, it was feared, would outpace agricultural production and create yet more poverty.
During the meeting, the Chinese leaders emphasized their readiness to support agricultural research as well.
Many African governments at the Shanghai meeting declared their intention to act boldly, by investing in infrastructure, agricultural modernization, public health, and education.
Our agricultural practices are ancient and require urgent and wholesale modernization.
If increased agricultural productivity is necessary, so, too, is improved water management.
Given that agriculture uses 70% of the world’s reliable water supply (and the potential impact of climate change on water reliability), a comprehensive approach to climate security will need to embrace better water policies, better integrated land management, and agricultural market reform.
And if these loans can be shown to be good investments, more banks might be persuaded to finance climate-related agricultural projects.
China’s agricultural imports should also continue to rise, as land is taken out of agricultural production and its urban population expands.
Wild species of bats, birds, and amphibians add several billion dollars each year to the world’s agricultural economy by controlling pests and pollinating major crops – a free service that they get little credit for providing.
At some level, he sensed that Russia’s potential could be unleashed only if the government either faced down, or bought off, the special interests – military, industrial, and agricultural – that stood in the way.
One of the best, as Copenhagen Consensus research has shown, is to get serious about investing in research and development to boost agricultural productivity.
Investing an extra $88 billion in agricultural R&D over the next 32 years would increase yields by an additional 0.4 percentage points every year, which could save 79 million people from hunger and prevent five million cases of child malnourishment.
By the end of the century, the extra increase in agricultural productivity would be far greater than the damage to agricultural productivity suggested by even the worst-case scenarios of the effects of global warming.
At the center of the failure to make headway on the creation of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is America’s unwillingness, and that of the Bush administration, to open up its agricultural sector to competition from countries such as Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay.
First, US agricultural protectionism should be reduced.
In cattle production alone, economic losses amount to an estimated $1-1.2 billion annually, with total agricultural losses reaching roughly $4.75 billion.
Unlike other leaders, Lula can press the US over its hypocritical and protectionist agricultural policies, thus testing President Bush's commitment to freeing trade in agriculture.
If Bush is to stand for freeing trade here, he will need pressure from Brazil because US farm lobbies are gearing up to keep Latin America's agricultural exports under the same strict controls they have faced for years.
It made many of Mexico’s industrial and agricultural businesses more competitive, but brought only a small and temporary increase in foreign investment as a percentage of GDP.
There are legitimate concerns about the competitiveness of Europe’s agricultural sector, for example, and about the technical challenges of harmonizing a long list of norms and standards.
During the negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership – which would have lowered tariffs and non-tariff barriers faced by US agricultural exports in participating countries – Republican members of Congress representing such districts were among the strongest supporters of freer trade (including at a House Ways and Means Committee meeting at which I testified).
Consider the British agricultural revolution before 1800, which was an essential prerequisite for the industrial revolution that followed.
You can tell Latin Americans or Africans that Asia’s unquenchable thirst for natural resources will keep pushing up the prices of their commodity and agricultural exports in perpetuity, turning wheat fields into gold mines.
One Europe that starts pondering how to steer its agricultural policy in a more market oriented and green direction.
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