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But make no mistake: a gene-driven farm would epitomize the industrial approach to agriculture, which has failed the test of sustainability.
Such a well-educated and mobile population is essential to Cyprus’s business model, in which high-value accountancy, banking, and legal services compensate for the country’s lack of agriculture and heavy industry.
We can therefore imagine what the impact of a drier climate on agriculture is likely to be.
As we try to prevent resistance to existing drugs, we will also need to examine the impact of antibiotics in agriculture.
Rural populations from Africa have the capacity to compete and export greenhouse-gas emission-reduction credits generated by forestry and agriculture activities that improve their livelihoods, ameliorate local environmental problems, and increase communities’ ability to cope with climate change.
The important effects are on agriculture and tourism, where nations will lose, on average, about 0.5% of GDP from each sector.
China was constrained by poor supply incentives in agriculture in the late 1970’s.
Indeed, when the US, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom signed the Potsdam Agreement in August 1945, they agreed on the “reduction or destruction of all civilian heavy-industry with war potential” and on “restructuring the German economy toward agriculture and light industry.”
A simplified CAP would encourage cleaner, more productive, and efficient agriculture.
But renewal of this sort cannot be left to global market forces, as the results might not necessarily benefit European agriculture and society.
4.Metropolitan agriculture in a rapidly urbanizing world can provide high-quality produce on small amounts of land.
A lack of data about, say, riparian flows, including how much water is diverted for agriculture and human consumption, undermines efficient resource management.
Though agriculture consumes about 80% of freshwater stocks in Asia, most countries cannot correctly measure how much water is used to grow a crop, and how much of that water is re-used downstream.
As some water-scarce countries, such as Australia, have already shown, such accounting helps countries to allocate water more efficiently among agriculture and energy producers and urban consumers.
One area of focus must be agriculture.
India’s latest central budget emphasizes fiscal prudence, adheres to past commitments, and aims at structural reforms, especially in agriculture.
They have moved the bulk of their labor force out of agriculture and into cities, where knowhow can be shared more easily.
It can remain engaged on cooperation agreements affecting aviation, trade, academic exchanges, transport, infrastructure, tourism, and agriculture and rural development.
The great Eurasian civilizations were all dependent on agriculture and needed to create institutional means of tying labor, which was then scarce, to the land, which was abundant.
Furthermore, weaknesses in agriculture, energy, infrastructure, and governance have all contributed to India’s current crisis.
It is imperative that India invest in its agriculture, not only for economic reasons, but also because it is central to the country’s culture.
Even if America were to reverse its current policies and reduce its domestic agricultural subsidies--just one reason that Latin Americans view the FTAA as rank hypocrisy--a focus on export-oriented agriculture in Ecuador tends to favor large landowners over small farmers, shifting income from the poor to the rich.
They put little effort into creating a level playing field for farmers, since they knew America couldn't compete in agriculture.
The Bush Administration supported bailouts for airlines, unprecedented subsidies for agriculture, and tariff protections for steel.
For most of the twentieth century, large chunks of the world remained desperately poor for one or more of four related reasons: (1) criminal misgovernment; (2) lack of the machines to do anything useful and productive in the world economy besides subsistence agriculture and unskilled service work; (3) lack of the public education system needed to give people the literacy and the skills to operate the machines; and (4) barriers (legal and physical) that kept people where demand was low from selling the products of their work where demand was high.
It documents cases relating to housing, business, health, transportation, trade, banks, drugs, agriculture, politics, culture, and the media.
Closing the gender gap in agriculture, meanwhile, could have an even more profound impact on families and productivity in the developing world.
In agriculture and forestry the energy company can find different types of biomass that can be used in energy production.
Today, wood chips, wood pellets and half of the straw produced in Danish agriculture are used to produce power and heat at Danish power plants.
The result is second generation bioethanol produced from residuals from agriculture such as straw.
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