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Roughly 95% of our agriculture is hi-tech.
At the same time, EU policy has sidelined clear southern priorities, like opening up Europe’s agriculture and textile markets.
And that, in turn, can only be assured by the global rules agreed upon at the World Trade Organization – rules that have already underpinned a 270% increase in global trade in food and agriculture products since 1996.
The international community needs to do three things to harness the benefits of trade in food and agriculture products.
Whatever shape they take, international rules should be written in such a way that they encourage and reward good national-level policies and investments in agriculture.
The failure to shift agriculture policies more rapidly in the direction outlined above has been costly – to the sector itself and to the international community.
Historically, agriculture has driven economic performance in many countries, generating growth that has been shown to be at least twice as effective in reducing poverty as growth in other sectors.
Globally, three-quarters of people living in extreme poverty are in rural areas and depend on agriculture and related activities for their livelihoods.
In order to lift people out of poverty and ensure food security, a sustained effort is needed to develop Africa’s agriculture and the associated infrastructure – notably roads, telecommunication, and energy – needed to unleash agricultural potential.
Strengthening agriculture is one of the best investments any African country can make.
Members of the African Union recognized this in 2003 in Maputo, Mozambique, pledging to increase spending on agriculture to at least 10% of national budgets.
Investment in agriculture in Africa must focus on creating a dynamic smallholder sector.
In a number of small countries in Africa, agriculture plays an even greater role, representing 80% or more of export earnings.
The potential in these numbers will remain untapped unless African countries put the right policies in place to help agriculture to develop and flourish.
But transformation of African agriculture will not happen until the private sector is fully engaged in agricultural production, processing, and marketing.
In fact, with genetics set to improve everything from human health to agriculture, physicists and mathematicians worldwide are pouring into the life sciences.
In particular, the African model appears to be underpinned by positive aggregate demand shocks generated either by transfers from abroad or by productivity growth in agriculture.
This is not to downplay the significance of rapid productivity growth in agriculture, the archetypal traditional sector.
Our research suggests that agriculture has played a key role in Africa not only on its own account, but also as a driver of growth-increasing structural change.
Diversification into non-traditional products and adoption of new production techniques can transform agriculture into a quasi-modern activity.
In part because of low income elasticity of demand for agricultural products, outflows of labor from agriculture are an inevitable outcome during the process of development.
Such an agreement could include trade in goods, services, financial instruments, and agriculture, and would necessitate greater compatibility of European and American regulations and legal norms, implying substantial savings.
That, in turn, has reflected the fall in labor income as a share of the economy, owing in part to structural changes that have moved workers out of agriculture (where the labor share of income is high) and into manufacturing (where capital commands a larger share of income).
Programs to increase breastfeeding can be challenging in poor communities where mothers are typically engaged in agriculture and intensive work.
One of the inevitable consequences of the current food crisis will be a re-consolidation of the state’s role in agriculture.
After the last world food crisis in 1973, agriculture was almost forgotten as a factor in growth.
For example, sustainability in agriculture is often linked to organic farming, whose advocates tout it as a “sustainable” way to feed the planet’s rapidly expanding population.
The study also found that “intensive organic agriculture relying on solid organic matter, such as composted manure that is mixed in to the soil prior to planting, resulted in significant down-leaching of nitrate” into groundwater.
The low yields of organic agriculture – typically 20-50% below conventional agriculture – impose various stresses on farmland, especially on water consumption.
A British meta-analysis published in 2012 identified some of the stresses that were higher in organic agriculture.
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