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In largely agricultural China, huge state industrial enterprises had been less important, so their reform could have been postponed, and reliance could be placed on "starting afresh."
Though countries are often eager to trade resources like oil, gas, minerals, timber, and agricultural products, no country in the world sells its water to other countries.
In anticipation of worsening food and energy security concerns in the future, ASEAN has set priorities for programs that increase productivity and production, strengthen policy coordination on agricultural trade, and boost efforts to alleviate poverty.
The official policy of “Four Modernizations” (industrial, agricultural, military, and scientific-technological) that has underpinned China’s rise since the late 1970’s has failed to provide an answer to that question, because the “fifth modernization” – the emergence of democracy and the rule of law – is still missing.
They did, however, have the right to restrict access to their underground resources in order to extract rents, just as the despised agricultural landowners have done for centuries.
That could be the result of the well-meaning but extremely misguided attempts by European and North American groups that advise Africans to be wary of agricultural biotechnology.''
Agricultural production accounts for half of anthropogenic methane, but wastewater systems, landfills, and coal mining also create the gas.
In the past, US farm subsidies were also deal-breakers for large agricultural exporters like Argentina and, again, Brazil.
The Ethiopian government went on a spending spree, building roads, railways, power plants, and an agricultural extension system that significantly enhanced productivity in rural areas, where most of the poor reside.
Structural adjustment programs demanded by the IMF and the World Bank ended up transforming these countries into dumping grounds for over-subsidized Western agricultural surpluses and over-priced and obsolete manufactured goods.
The population is sparse – roughly 700,000 people on territory the size of France – with agricultural communities nestled in deep valleys and a few herdsmen in the high mountains.
This contrasts sharply with Brazil’s success in developing innovative and globally competitive aerospace and agricultural sectors.
What makes Francis’s appeal different is that his words were directed not so much at the local population, but at the residents of North America and Europe, where demand for timber, biofuels, and agricultural products drives the destruction of the rainforests and imperils the lives of indigenous populations.
Over the past 10,000 years, as we moved from small hunter-gatherer bands to agricultural settlements, urbanization, and beyond, the network of people with whom we must interact and cooperate expanded, from small bands to nations-states and eventually to an entity like the EU.
It is delivering improved water security, a 25% increase in wages for agricultural workers, and more than 3.5 billion days of work, with the program as a whole reaching 30 million families per year on average.
The AGOA has also been criticized for excluding some agricultural products, for which Africans have a comparative advantage.
The products that are not excluded face complex health and safety regulations, further hampering Africans’ ability to export agricultural products to the US.
Brazil and Argentina have, for example, significantly increased agricultural exports to China, while Central America and Mexico have seen their imports from China increase dramatically.
Barrels, Bushels, and BondsCAMBRIDGE – The prices of hydrocarbons, minerals, and agricultural commodities have been on a veritable roller coaster.
Indonesia and Ecuador, among other countries, succumbed to financial crises in 1997-98 that were linked (in part) to agricultural crises caused by the severe El Nino.
Instead of researching the focus area’s agricultural base, social structures, and local cultures the plan’s officers launched a program based on hearsay and feeble contacts.
The list goes on to focus on agricultural technologies to tackle food production and hunger, as well as technologies to boost the supply of clean drinking water and improve sanitation.
Even if it is, the impact is likely to be different for agricultural exporters (the members of Mercosur and some Central American countries) than for exporters of minerals and oil (Mexico and other South American countries).
Most tangibly, other countries can retaliate against the US by imposing their own tariffs on, say, US agricultural exports.
By serving as a bridge between informal savings groups and banks, health centers, schools, and agricultural extension services, we are helping women make better decisions about food use, nutritional practices, and spending.
Second, food reserves should be established, not only for humanitarian supplies in disaster-prone, infrastructure-poor areas, as Zoellick proposes, but also as a means to support stable revenues for agricultural producers and ensure affordable food for the poor.
Whatever gains in agricultural production result from these investments will benefit foreign markets, not local communities.
Weather-related events are a major cause of price volatility on agricultural markets.
We need agricultural systems that are more resilient to climate change, and that can contribute to mitigating it.
Governments must guarantee a living wage, adequate health care, and safe conditions for the world’s 450 million agricultural workers by enforcing the conventions on labor rights in rural areas, subject to independent monitoring.
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