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Today, women dominate African agriculture, the continent’s most important industry.
For example, in a recent study, Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano, and Nathan Nunn examined levels of female participation in the US labor market of first- and second-generation immigrants from regions that historically used the plough in agriculture.
Second, OECD countries should keep their markets open, and open those that are closed – in agriculture (crucial to the sustained growth of emerging economies like Argentina, Brazil, and Indonesia) or in services (crucial for countries like India or Korea).
Natural systems also provide natural purification systems for air and water, supply pollinators for agriculture, mediate our climate, and recycle the elements upon which our life-support systems depend.
This is more than twice the size of the global agriculture sector and dwarfs total spending on foreign aid.
For example, damage to ecosystems and biodiversity caused by current practices in the food and agriculture sector alone could cost the equivalent of 18% of global economic output by 2050, up from around 3% in 2008.
The core agenda is to stitch together a traditional free-trade agreement focused on industrial goods, agriculture, and textiles.
Yet the UK has traditionally been much less protective of its agriculture, and is thus likely after Brexit to pursue a commercial policy that is very similar to that of the EU, anyway.
India is no longer primarily an agricultural economy; indeed, agriculture accounts for only around 20% of GDP.
But this does not mean that agriculture should be neglected; on the contrary, it remains a way of life for many millions of Indians, who need capital and new technology.
For example, many of the poorest countries are in the tropics, and problems of tropical health (such as malaria) and tropical agriculture, are generally ignored by rich-country scientists.
For example, reporting only the total number of jobs added in India from 2011 to 2015 – an increase of about seven million – misses the shift from agriculture toward non-farm jobs in the construction, trade, and transport industries.
These investments are also helping to accelerate the shift from agriculture to other sources of income in some of India’s poorest states.
The Spanish Government rightly proposed that true solutions to poverty require simultaneous investments in health, education, agriculture, and infrastructure, and then the Spanish put up the funds to help make that integrated vision a practical reality.
Mali is eager to scale up investments in agriculture, health, education, and infrastructure in its 166 poorest communities.
At the same time, all industries, from information technology to agriculture, depend on services provided by nature.
While resources for climate-change adaptation and mitigation may have different fiscal origins from more traditional development resources, it would be damaging to keep them separate in their use: from agriculture, construction, and power to technology and deforestation, the simple fact is that development, adaptation, and mitigation are often inextricably intertwined.
Sub-Saharan Africa has paths for diversified growth that many of the trailblazers did not: value-added agriculture and agro industry, the processing of mineral resources, petrochemical complexes, manufacturing of durable and consumer goods, tourism and entertainment, and an emerging information-technology sector.
To that end, policymakers must ensure that growth is channeled into sectors that create jobs, such as agriculture, manufacturing, and services.
The free-trade agreement recently signed with Japan will give the EU a clear advantage over the US in agriculture, and strengthening trade ties with Mexico could have a similar impact, as the US renegotiates the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Meanwhile, health-care communities in advanced economies must find the political will to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use by people, and in agriculture.
The TPP would improve Japan’s trade prospects considerably, including in sensitive sectors like agriculture, where exports of fast-moving consumer goods like flowers and vegetables would benefit.
As with AIDS, a few dollars per person of assistance for agriculture each year could spare millions from hunger.
The sectors best equipped to absorb these young Arabs are tourism, construction, and agriculture.
Moreover, a declining share of the European food market and diminished investments in real estate undermine the capacity of agriculture and construction to absorb young workers.
But even in more recent years, the skill content in China’s output has improved radically, and resources have been successfully transferred from agriculture to the services sector, rather than to the manufacturing sector, where large state-owned firms still dominate many industries.
In Uruguay, agriculture was the leading sector; in Sweden, it was manufacturing.
Export agriculture was the foundation of the country's wealth.
But the incomes from beef, mutton, and wool exports were not ploughed back into the agriculture.
Crisis emerged when world prices of agricultural produce collapsed and surpluses from agriculture could no longer support an inefficient manufacturing industry and growing welfare state.
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