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Abe’s agenda includes reform of social security in response to demographic trends, as well as gaining the agriculture sector’s acceptance of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the bold regional trade agreement that will unite the United States, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and much of the rest of Asia, with the exception of China.
While a solar panel can provide energy for a light bulb and a charge for a cell phone, it does little to help run stoves to avoid indoor air pollution or fridges to keep vaccines and food fresh, much less power agriculture and industry.
These trends move too slowly to make headlines, but cumulatively they offer a whole new world of bigger payoffs from public and private investment in agriculture and rural development.
Past efforts have been victims of their own success: as the burst of worldwide agricultural research and development in the 1970’s and 1980’s led to global food abundance in the 1990’s and 2000’s, foreign-aid donors turned to other priorities, and their per-capita support for African agriculture fell to a historical low in 2006 of around one dollar per year.
The global food crisis of 2007-2008 brought a brutal end to that complacency, and many investors have pledged a renewed focus on agriculture, but the proof will be in the spending.
African agriculture continues to face serious challenges.
If funders take notice, farmers are poised to respond – and 2010 could mark the start of a bright new era in African agriculture.
Fortunately, Abe recognizes this imperative, and the third “arrow” of his strategy to reinvigorate Japan’s economy has established it as an official goal, (together with opening up protected sectors – particularly agriculture – to greater external competition).
Another promising development is bioplastics, which have begun to compete with petroleum-based products in certain short-lifespan applications – such as packaging and agriculture – over the last two decades.
The World Bank has knowledge and experience in sectors as diverse as infrastructure, agriculture, health, education, pensions, and financial regulation.
Specifically, the Bank should become a prime mover in fostering investments to promote environmental sustainability; supporting research in agriculture, health, and clean energy; and collecting and analyzing economic and social data.
Liberalization of agriculture – long a stubborn holdout in international trade negotiations – is noteworthy.
Although the industry’s environmental footprint is smaller than that of agriculture and urbanization, extracting materials from the ground can still permanently harm ecosystems and lead to biodiversity loss.
Which billionaires will champion the SDGs for education, renewable energy, fresh water and sanitation, and sustainable agriculture?
Now the accession negotiations have started, and 35 “chapters” – covering everything from agriculture to energy, competition, environment, employment, social policy, and beyond – must be opened.
The problem is that we have heard it all before from Putin – another trained lawyer – at the start of his presidency, when he promised a “dictatorship of law,” military reform, land reform, and, consequently, a return of Russia’s agriculture dream, ruined by the post-1917 planned economy.
Typically, economic development occurs as workers and farmers move from traditional, low-productivity sectors (such as agriculture and petty services) to modern factory work and services.
In just a decade, Ghana cut stunting by nearly half, partly through investment in areas that affect nutrition, such as agriculture and social protection.
The Holy Grail of Genetic EngineeringHONG KONG – Since its introduction four decades ago, genetic engineering has been a source of high hopes for health, agriculture, and industry.
Both countries are oriented along a north-south axis, and are characterized by varied terrain, long shorelines, and abundant agriculture, ranching, and vineyards.
Once pushing industrialization at the expense of agriculture, African leaders routinely ignored ordinary farmers.
After working for more than ten years as a government farm adviser and accomplishing little, she was chosen by a foreign donor to gain a bachelor’s degree in agriculture.
She recognizes that any lasting transformation in African agriculture will take place, not only village by village, but also farmer by farmer.
Where possible, regional funds and policymaking powers – including environmental regulation and oversight of agriculture, fisheries, and local social programs – should be delegated to the appropriate regional authorities, such as the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh and Northern Irish Assemblies, city mayors, and local authorities.
That is why my government is using it to understand how sectors like transportation – as well as agriculture, energy, and others – are affecting strategies to mitigate climate change.
Before becoming Premier and Party chief, he experimented with everything from the de-collectivization of agriculture and separation of the Party from business to laws guaranteeing the rights of journalists and greater openness toward the outside world for ordinary people.
In return, developed countries were to make major concessions on agriculture – the livelihood of the vast majority of people in developing countries – and textile quotas, the only trade area (besides sugar) in which quantitative restrictions persist.
What happened in agriculture was even worse.
Given that agriculture accounts for 70% of water consumption, on average, worldwide, it seems logical that this sector should be the focus of conservation measures.
As water scarcity increases, drought-stricken crops wither, and food prices rise, the need for resilient agriculture will become more obvious – and more urgent.
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