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Will oil and other natural resources force Ghana, ranked among the leading producers of cocoa, coffee, and oil palm, to turn its back on agriculture?
In particular, the influx of Venezuelan labor has put significant downward pressure on wages in Colombia’s informal sector (including agriculture, services, and small manufacturing business) – and just when the government was hoping to raise the minimum wage.
It suggests support for agriculture and agribusiness development and linking them with other sectors, as well as measures to boost resilience to price shocks.
Moreover, it might also seriously distort economic development, by attracting excessive investment into agriculture.
The construction industry’s glacial pace of change is unlike that of other sectors such as agriculture and manufacturing, which have transformed their productivity performance over time.
So did their arrogant claim that they alone understood “political Europe,” and would therefore sew up deals – like that on agriculture in October 2002 – bilaterally.
Water consumption in the region is linked overwhelmingly to industrial agriculture.
This would devastate agriculture in the Middle East and North Africa, with crop yields falling by 15-35%, depending on the strength of carbon fertilization.
Some businesses, especially in the agriculture sector, currently enjoy higher levels of protection; eliminating tariffs would thus alter the alignment of domestic interests in the EU (and in the US).
At the same time, India's growing population will make increasing demands on water supplies - mainly for agriculture, which absorbs more than 80% of all the fresh water India consumes.
Another goal should be to increase the government's spending on research and development, especially in areas of health, agriculture, environment and information technology.
That is why now is the right time to start a serious conversation about animal agriculture.
The animal agriculture industry is not only vulnerable to the observed and predicted effects of climate change; it is also a key contributor to the problem.
When it comes to climate policy, food and agriculture should be treated more like energy and transportation, both of which have clear guidance on how to address climate change and reduce emissions.
Policies to limit the planet-warming effects of agriculture and food production are long overdue.
Aid for agriculture fell by more than half in the quarter-century after 1980, as the World Bank cut agricultural lending from $7.7 billion in 1980 to $2 billion in 2004.
Climate changes resulting from greenhouse-gas emissions exacerbate water-supply problems, accelerate desertification and water stress, and worsen the unpredictability and severity of weather events, all of which adversely affect agriculture in much of the world.
Commercial agriculture uses petroleum, oil, and gas to operate machinery, transport goods, and produce agro-chemicals needed for fertilizers and pesticides.
With the trading arrangements of the European common market increasingly subsumed by the globalisation of free trade and agriculture under the World Trade Organisation, and with American dominance of Nato providing the only meaningful security guarantee, and with English now irrevocably established as the world's lingua franca, a clear alternative is emerging for the peripheral European countries, both rich and poor.
In agriculture, small farmers would be placed on a collision course with US agro-business and their heavily subsidized farm exports.
The US and Europe not only tried to impose their trade agenda on developing countries; they also continued to insist on their right to subsidize agriculture and raised new demands that would have made lives in developing countries even worse.
But unless meaningful concessions are made in agriculture, non-tariff barriers, and intellectual property rights, what do developing countries have to gain?
But, in multi-faceted talks that straddle several different sectors (for example, agriculture, manufactures, and services) and diverse rules (such as anti-dumping and subsidies), countries have negotiated concessions with one another in various areas.
The region’s emerging democracies urgently need an Arab initiative that resembles the Marshall Plan – a program to attract large-scale investment in infrastructure, industry, and agriculture (and in the region’s wealth of untapped technical skills), thereby boosting employment.
Indeed, the CAP is ensuring neither sustainable agriculture nor decent incomes for all farmers.
Workers belonging to each caste pursued a wide variety of occupations, although agriculture provided the bulk of employment.
Among the middle-ranking, agricultural castes, some had high economic status due to improved agriculture, brought about by canal irrigation and commercialization.
Both countries should consolidate their cooperation in other areas already agreed upon: agriculture, education, health care, energy, and science and technology.
As a result the reformers are long lost in the strife over agriculture.
He said agriculture was the backbone of our nation.
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