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They told him that Soviet atomic bombs could be used to reverse the course of major rivers, allowing water to be redirected toward agriculture, rather than being “wasted” by flowing into the Arctic Sea.
Kenya’s ubiquitous mobile banking service M-Pesa appears to have enabled poor women to move out of subsistence agriculture into non-farm businesses, providing a significant bump up the income ladder at the very bottom.
By contrast, the insistence on minimal government and reliance on the market led to precipitous declines in public infrastructure investment, particularly in agriculture.
Instead, governments played a developmental role by supporting industrialization, higher value-added agriculture and services, and improvement of technological and human capabilities.
Again, the amount of scientific research to study tropical agricultural is a tiny fraction of the research expenditures to study "rich-country" agriculture in the temperate climate.
One estimate has shown that the combined agriculture research spending by state governments in California, New York, and Florida exceeds the total of the worldwide system of international agricultural research centers for tropical countries.
And for all of the developing world, a re-orientation of the aid effort to mobilize the scientific and technological knowledge needed to conquer unsolved problems of tropical health, agriculture, environment, energy use, and other areas that will not be overcome by economic reforms alone.
The crisis in agriculture led to a decrease in demand for urban goods and thus to an economy-wide downturn.
An analogous structural transformation, this time not from agriculture to manufacturing, but from manufacturing-led growth to services-led growth, compounded by the need to adjust to globalization, marked the economy in the years before the 2008 crisis.
In trying to move farmers from subsistence to commercial agriculture, Munk argues, there are just too many missing pieces.
Imagine that Sachs’s Millennium Villages project had known the sequence of all previous successful moves out of subsistence agriculture, rather than relying only on guesswork or deduction.
In agriculture, G20 countries have promised to restrict the use of antibiotics outside of veterinary medicine.
That alone is a big step forward, given that, in big countries such as the United States, and possibly China and India, antibiotics are now used more for growth promotion in agriculture than for fighting infections in humans.
Since the economies of most impoverished post-conflict countries are based on agriculture, restarting farm output is vital.
They recognized the dramatic implications that even this amount of warming would have for sea levels, freshwater supplies, agriculture, extreme weather events, public health, and the planet’s flora and fauna.
The ozone layer is healing and, according to the latest estimates, it could recover by 2065, saving trillions of dollars in global health-care and agriculture costs.
Inefficiency in agriculture, retail, and government are legendary.
Opening up trade in agriculture significantly improved living standards for ordinary Japanese, but it could easily have hurt the country’s farmers.
At the same time, it pointed to the need to increase food production to feed the extra two billion people expected to be alive in 2050, and suggested that more investment in agriculture in developing countries is required to improve productivity.
The Bank rejected the idea of a moratorium on its own work with investors in agriculture, arguing that this would target precisely those who are most likely to do the right thing.
He previously served not only as minister of economics and finance, but also of agriculture – a critically important qualification, given that the vast majority of the developing countries’ poor depend on farming.
To quote the United Nations Human Development Report for 2006: “There is more than enough water in the world for domestic purposes, for agriculture and for industry….Scarcity is manufactured through political processes and institutions that disadvantage the poor.”
Only a few percentage points of the Israeli GNP come from agriculture today; as a result, its economy requires less water than it once did.
It may also be time we consider embracing high-tech – even genetically modified – agriculture to provide the food we need on smaller areas of land, leaving more space for wildlife.
As long as financial leaks are sucking the life out of African economies, the continent will struggle to deal with challenges like youth unemployment and have only a limited capacity to invest in areas like health and agriculture.
Understandably, therefore, new questions are being asked: is membership in the West really worth our efforts, are free markets such a good thing for local agriculture, are liberal freedoms really unlimited, should we have, for example, laws against pornography and some mild form of censorship?
One of the most extreme historical examples of technology-induced job loss is, of course, found in agriculture in developed countries.
In the late 1800’s, roughly three-quarters of all workers in the US were employed in agriculture.
The problem today is that we are not talking about rapid automation of a single economic sector like agriculture.
When agriculture became mechanized, there were other labor-intensive sectors that could absorb millions of workers.
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