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Mining and plantation agriculture were labor-intensive, but the population had collapsed precipitously upon contact with Europe, owing to some combination of war, disease, oppression, and the disruption of livelihoods.
They are predominantly employed in domestic work, care-giving, agriculture, and entertainment – all low-paid, largely unregulated sectors that are rarely covered by national labor laws.
For example, America’s huge agriculture subsidies contribute to its fiscal deficit, which translates into a larger trade deficit.
Furthermore, Asia’s governments can nurture female leadership in two areas of economic activity in which women already feature heavily: agriculture and entrepreneurship.
Ministries of agriculture, industry, tourism, and urban development, are some examples.
In areas like agriculture, energy, forestry, and municipal planning, decisions are taken daily without regard for their implications for water availability and sustainability – a situation that becomes even more complicated when water resources cross national boundaries.
Working smarter is no empty slogan; it is the key to modernizing African agriculture.
“It’s a very important crop for raising income and commercializing agriculture,” says Nelson Gagawala Wambuzi, Minister of State for Trade.
For all the attention that India’s retail revolution, information technology prowess, and booming manufacturing sectors have garnered in recent years, agriculture, on which 70% of the population still directly depends, is in crisis.
Most Indian farmers will benefit from greater access to irrigation, but if this means building more ill-conceived dams and pursuing large-scale projects, the result will be more water for industrial agriculture, more damage to India’s damaged environment, and little improvement for poor farmers.
And it’s not just agriculture.
Why has Africa been unable to replicate that growth in the agriculture sector?
For their part, African governments and development partners, recognizing the central role that agriculture can play in their economic-development agendas, have begun to reverse a three-decade decline in public investment in agriculture.
In fact, agriculture has the potential to reduce poverty twice as fast as any other sector.
It is time to give the agriculture sector the opportunity that all Africans need to usher in an era of shared prosperity.
Today, agriculture, forestry, and other land uses account for roughly a quarter of global greenhouse-gas emissions.
New processes and technologies in landscape planning, soil analysis, irrigation, and even alternative proteins such as plant-based meat are making agriculture and land use more sustainable.
According to the Climate Policy Initiative, public financing for agriculture, forestry, and land-use mitigation attracted just $3 billion in 2014, compared to $49 billion for renewable energy generation and $26 billion for energy efficiency.
Data from the Global Slavery Index show that more than one million Russians are currently enslaved in the construction industry, the military, agriculture, and the sex trade.
In agriculture and industry, bureaucracy and corruption have stifled the country’s comparative advantages, compounded by disruptions in energy supplies.
The Doha Round was supposed to make agriculture the centerpiece of negotiations to assuage the deep frustrations of developing countries.
Most galling, agriculture is a small and declining part of these “rich club” economies, and the richer and larger they are, the less significant agriculture is and the more resources are wasted on rural welfare.
Deepening these fears, China’s free-trade deals in Southeast Asia give agriculture priority.
Former Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram has said that his dream is to see 85% of Indians living in cities and only 15%, as opposed to the current 60%, engaged in agriculture, because to be an agrarian society in the modern era is to be poor and powerless.
Most developed countries followed America's lead, with developing countries proscribing its use in agriculture, and some for all purposes.
[Malaria may even be] a blessing in disguise, since a large proportion of the malaria belt is not suited to agriculture, and the disease has helped to keep man from destroying it--and from wasting his substance on it."
Until agriculture unshackles itself from dependence on oil, gas tanks in rich countries and stomachs in poor countries will be competing to be filled.
To avoid that outcome, in May the Review on AMR that I lead published its strategy for tackling such infections, laying out proposals to ensure the development of the necessary new antibiotics, and to use existing antibiotics more efficiently in humans and agriculture.
At the UN, the goal should be to turn the mantra of “access, not excess” into a reality, with an agreement to reduce the unnecessary use of antibiotics in agriculture, and to spearhead a global awareness campaign.
Today, most governments separate their environmental authorities from those focusing on energy, agriculture, and planning.
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