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The exclusion from organic agriculture of organisms simply because they were crafted with modern, superior techniques makes no sense.
In recent decades, conventional agriculture has become more environmentally friendly and sustainable than ever before.
But that reflects science-based research and old-fashioned technological ingenuity on the part of farmers, plant breeders, and agribusiness companies, not irrational opposition to modern insecticides, herbicides, genetic engineering, and “industrial agriculture.”
But the same authorities have already opened their economies’ manufacturing and agriculture sectors for the common good, even at the expense of minority groups like farmers and factory workers.
They should commit to advancing sound agricultural management, maintaining well-functioning markets, and increasing investment in agriculture.
And price volatility, whether triggered by drought or short-sighted national policies, could deter investments in agriculture and decrease the poor’s purchasing power.
This is partly because wind and solar help to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions only from electricity generation, which account for 42% of the total, but not from the energy used in industry, transport, buildings, and agriculture.
Over 65% of Indian workers continue to earn their livelihood on the land, yet as the economy adjusted to the 1990's reforms, the amount of capital available for government investment in agriculture fell.
Instead of becoming more modern, agriculture remained as dependent as ever on erratic monsoon rains and became even more volatile in its production.
Neglect of agriculture should, perhaps, have been expected in the government's rush to modernize; what was unexpected was the government's increasing reliance on dubious fiscal strategies.
Although research funding is rising, it accounts for just 4.7% of EU spending, compared to 31.7% for agriculture.
In a country where two-thirds of the population is still dependent on agriculture and small holdings are all that a majority of Indians live on, the new law helps those who have often felt exploited and deprived of their livelihoods by the state’s power of eminent domain.
When the government promotes food security, it is part of a bold effort to strengthen agriculture, which has led to record-high production of food grains.
As Joyce’s story demonstrates, agriculture is crucial to Africa’s future.
In fact, agriculture offers the continent its best opportunity to turn a vicious cycle of poverty into a virtuous cycle of development.
They have the wrong kind of law on land ownership, because it is based on plantation agriculture, and what Myanmar needs is smallholder-based agriculture.
When we think about migrant labor, we think of low-skill work in agriculture, construction, services, and domestic work.
I'm not sure I want the man in the street to set Britain's science, technology, and agriculture policy.
For example, the EU supports the growth of agriculture and rural development through two types of instruments.
Such programs already add up to significant spending – the current EDF, which runs from 2007-2013, has set aside more than €1 billion to support agriculture, rural development, and food security in Africa alone.
Its objectives also include boosting agriculture in the short to medium term in selected countries.
Beyond these financial instruments, we need to improve on the status quo by investing in the research and development needed to modernize agriculture and reduce the risk of crop failures.
France’s health, ecology, and agriculture ministers promised a prompt investigation and threatened to ban imports of Monsanto’s GM corn to the European Union.
South Africa’s agriculture sector could expand employment and contribute to food security by strengthening partnerships between established commercial operators and emerging farmers.
This mixture of hubris, ignorance, and subservience to commercial interests reached peak toxicity in 1990, when the UK’s agriculture minister, John Gummer, televised his daughter eating a hamburger, declaring that British beef was safe.
This useful policy reduces exploitative practices that sometimes enable multinational corporations and wealthy governments to obtain outrageous profits from indigenous agriculture.
Chinese officials stressed the crucial role of public investments, especially in agriculture and infrastructure, to lay the basis for private-sector-led growth.
Of course, the African leaders were most appreciative of the next message: China is prepared to help Africa in substantial ways in agriculture, roads, power, health, and education.
For 25 years, the Bank tried to get governments out of agriculture, leaving impoverished peasants to fend for themselves.
Practical development strategy recognizes that public investments – in agriculture, health, education, and infrastructure – are necessary complements to private investments.
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