PRONAF Programa Nacional de Fortalecimento da Agricultura Familiar the National Program for Family Agriculture

The information distribution system helps agricultural producers and rural entrepreneurs to find and understand information and provides regular feedback to the Ministry of Agriculture about the information needs of rural entrepreneurs.

Source Directorate of Agricultural Domestic Economy, Bureau for Equality, ministry for Agriculture

In Slovenia, FAO supported the planning and formulation of a national action plan for integrating gender issues into the national rural and agricultural development programme.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) started pilot initiative projects in several developing countries to assist rural persons with disabilities in becoming successful entrepreneurs.

The country has an agricultural economy with a network of canals irrigating a major part of its cultivated land.

DAP Declaração de Aptidão ao PRONAF Declaration of Acquirement to PRONAF

CONDRAF Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Rural the National Council for Rural Development

Rural Pakistani women are not only responsible for time and energy consuming household tasks but are also major contributors to the rural economy particularly in three sub sectors crop production, livestock production and cottage industry.

Hazrat Ali is from a poor farming family in Swat.

Weak mobilization of internal resources.

The number of households headed by women grew. In some regions, such households accounted for 40 of the total number of households.

Similarly, two Food Facility projects in Mozambique, worth a total of 2.5 million, are benefiting almost 50,000 farmers and nearly 300,000 rural families by increasing agricultural production, improving conditions for commercializing products, and addressing food security issues that affect rural households.

Fair trade is necessary to achieve this objective, since agricultural subsidies in developed countries distort world prices and hurt farmers in developing countries, thereby contributing to high rural poverty in the latter.

There is also a rural entrepreneurial revolution in China.

National Agricultural Health and Food Safety Service SENASAG.

Many rural women, especially in the north and centre of the country, worked alongside their husbands in the family fields, and hence the absence of any reference to women employed on plantations.

the administration of radio, film and television of each province have also delivered documents and related readings as well as references of the 19th CPC National Congress to the rural library

While agriculture and livestock are the predominant source of women's employment, home based income earning activities are alsoimportant.

Biotechnology Drought resistant crops (production) Development of indigenous crops Assisted reproduction (farm animals) Transfer of technology to produce leather product Intellectual property rights on indigenous plants Agricultural research domestic animal and wildlife animal health.

The Ministry of Agriculture commissioned a survey conducted by the Rural Development Institute on non agricultural entrepreneurship in 2001, which showed that there is a lack of workers whose qualifications meet the demands of employers in the rural areas.

In the Maputo Declaration on agriculture and food security in Africa, adopted by the Conference of Ministers of Agriculture of AU in July 2003, African countries were urged to allocate 10 per cent of their national budgets to agriculture within five years.

In countries such as Gambia, for example, it was reported that there is no single body responsible for directing research, although the Ministry of Agriculture and the National Agriculture Research Board direct research, and the National Agricultural Research Institute is responsible for conducting research.

These countries have formed the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA).

Regarding paragraph 29, there should be renewed focus on agricultural and rural development in particular, the least developed countries must increase their exports of commodities and agricultural produce.

In order to improve rural infrastructure and standard of life the Rural Development and Agricultural Market Regulation Act provides for various state benefits to support people living in rural areas.

Since the Gambia was overwhelmingly agricultural and rural, the Government needed to develop a comprehensive rural development policy, in particular to improve the lives and rights of rural women.

Before I discovered the wonders of science, I was just a simple farmer in a country of poor farmers.

The leaders appreciate the efforts of the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development in promoting sustainable agricultural development in Arab States.

The fact that labour legislation did not cover domestic or agricultural workers, and most of the latter were women, meant that there was serious discrimination against rural women.

(c) The Canadian Federation of Agriculture is a farmer funded national umbrella organization representing provincial general farm organizations and national commodity groups.

We now live in a country that has more prisoners than farmers 2.1 million prisoners, 1.9 million farmers.

Some countries are also trying to develop horticulture and agro forestry.

There was a tendency in rural areas for boys, in particular, to drop out of school in order to help in the fields, but rural schools had introduced flexible curricula that were adjusted during the harvest season to enable students to help their families.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) continues to strengthen its efforts towards institutional capacity building in the agricultural sector, assisting the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to develop an agricultural statistics system with the aim of providing agricultural and National Statistics Directorate staff with efficient methodologies for the collection, processing, dissemination and analysis of agricultural sector data.

Some examples of such initiatives are as follows Support to establish Rural Support Programmes (RSPs) The government provided seed capital for the formation of National Rural Support Programme, Punjab Rural Support Programme and Sind Rural Support Organization (SRSO). It also supported the Sarhad Rural Support Programme through project funding.

Note by the Secretariat The Annexes and Appendix to the present report will be made available to the members of the Committee in the language in which they were received.

The Conference called on the international community to put an end to agricultural subsidies, which penalize the producers of developing countries.

121, of May 22nd, 2001, established that a minimum of 30 of the resources of the National Program of Family Agriculture (PRONAF) should be preferentially destined for women agricultural.

The PRONAF is structured as a credit for the family unit and requires the commitment of all of the family members.

In rural areas, almost 19 per cent of households are headed by women.

A total of 69 per cent of the female rural migrants were daughters of the head of household who answered the survey.

Some countries are also working to develop horticulture and agroforestry.

Many rural households indulge in piecework to supplement their incomes.

The projects support rural women in their agricultural activities and in capacity building for household food security.