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Since the early 1990’s, many poor countries’ food bills have soared five- or six-fold, owing not only to population growth, but also to their focus on export-led agriculture.
A lack of investment in agriculture that feeds local communities makes these countries vulnerable to international price shocks, as well as to exchange-rate volatility.
Seventh, the transition to sustainable agriculture must be completed.
And agriculture is also a major culprit in climate change, responsible for 33% of all greenhouse-gas emissions if deforestation for cultivation and pastures is included in the tally.
This maturation could not have come at a more opportune time; roughly two-thirds of Africans depend on agriculture to make ends meet.
As could be expected, Che applied Soviet policies to the Cubans: agriculture was destroyed and ghost factories dotted the landscape.
We have plans that focus on climate-smart agriculture, building greener cities, increasing access to renewable energy, improving energy efficiency, and leveraging our finance for greater private investment.
Faster growth in consumer spending would also reverse the recent slowdown in GDP growth, providing the extra demand needed to create employment for the millions of Chinese who are leaving agriculture and the millions more who are graduating from the country’s universities.
Recognizing that there is more to heredity than DNA has implications for medicine and agriculture, as well as for evolutionary theory.
But it was the publication in 1962 of the book Silent Spring – a polemic against the use of pesticides in agriculture – by the biologist Rachel Carson that jump-started the modern ecological movement.
Most people in the developing world live in the rural sector, which is why free and fair trade in agriculture matters.
Chirac, Georges Pompidou's agriculture minister in the 1970's, wants to keep the CAP as it is.
Agreements on seemingly mundane subjects like agriculture, education, health, and even space exploration and energy security attest to enhanced cooperation.
For example, agriculture and rural affairs have been combined under one ministry, as have all environmental issues.
Obama’s one new priority – to expand US support for African farmers – reflects a shrewd appreciation of how the expansion of agriculture can quickly lift many rural Africans out of poverty.
But Japan’s agriculture sector has declined over the last two decades.
If our agriculture sector is to survive, we must follow through on sweeping reforms, including to our agricultural cooperatives, which have not changed in 60 years.
Two areas that would benefit from their own quantifiable benchmarks are diagnostics, to prevent antibiotics from being prescribed unnecessarily, and agriculture, where antibiotics are used excessively to promote livestock growth.
We are even witnessing a boom in urban agriculture, as advances in hydroponic and aeroponic farming techniques make it easier to grow vegetables in confined spaces.
But converting forests to agriculture led to cities and civilization.
Given that agriculture amounts to roughly 30% of sub-Saharan Africa’s GDP, and accounts for more than 60% of employment in most African countries, the sector’s development could reduce poverty in the region substantially.
Prior to the welfare state, the tension between openness and redistribution was resolved either by large-scale emigration of workers or by re-imposing trade protection, especially in agriculture.
After all, existing tariff levels on manufactured goods are already much lower than those on agriculture or dairy products.
Some 80% of Sudan’s oil is in the South, and the country’s vast swaths of fertile, naturally irrigated land hold much promise for commercial agriculture.
Today, however, advanced biofuels are not based on food, but on waste from industry, agriculture, and private households.
Traditionally, a large majority of the budget has gone either on agriculture or on the development of backward regions.
In the past, the big loser from the EU system, in budgetary terms, was the UK; for while agriculture accounted for two thirds of all EU spending, the UK had a small farm sector, and therefore received small farm payments.
Similarly the agriculture sector is under-capitalized, with extremely low levels of mechanization: an average of 13 tractors per 100 square kilometers compared to 129 per square kilometer in South Asia.
Indeed, India has leapfrogged over the manufacturing sector, going straight from agriculture into services.
That comparative advantage can just as easily be in services as in manufacturing or agriculture.
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