The agricultural sector

Development and modernization of the agricultural sector.

2 According to available estimates, women make up 30 per cent of the agricultural sector, 17 per cent of the non agricultural sector and 20 per cent of the civil service.

The agricultural sector remained important, but manufacturing exports should also be strengthened.

African Parties submitted 75 per cent of the project proposals in the agricultural sector.

These laws do not for the moment cover the informal or the agricultural sector.

OFDI by Argentine SMEs in the autoparts, agricultural machinery and software sector is prominent.

In Nepal, for example, opportunities exist in the agricultural sector (tea gardening and herbal medicine).

In Asia, the rate of urbanization had been less rapid because of agricultural sector development.

Measures to abate the increase of greenhouse gases in the agricultural sector in select Parties

Cuba had taken measures to facilitate SME access to credit, particularly in the agricultural sector.

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.

The WFP has made significant investments in the agricultural sector in order to strengthen food security among impoverished farmers and to improve agricultural productivity and incomes.

FAO also assisted the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the development of an agricultural statistics system for the collection and analysis of agricultural sector data.

The developed countries encourage the adoption of modern technologies in the agricultural sector and crop diversification.

In accordance with the agricultural framework, negotiations are to encompass all trade distorting policies affecting the sector.

The programmes financed by many developed countries lay the emphasis on modernizing the agricultural sector, promoting agricultural, forestry and pastoral production systems, and supporting the processing and marketing of products.

) The way to overcome poverty in Bosnia and Herzegovina is, inter alia, the development of the agricultural sector.

The agricultural sector presently represent 21 of absorption of the total credit made available to the Mozambican economy.

For example, China s productivity enhancing agricultural reforms in the 1980s were spurred partly by growth in the non agricultural sector, a result of policies aimed at stimulating township and village enterprises.

The sector specific services are intended to meet the requirements of the food and non food agricultural processing industries.

There are serious obstacles to developing the agricultural sector, such as a shortage of labour, water and marketing facilities.

There, women comprise as much as 60 per cent of the informal sector and 70 per cent of agricultural labour.

Some youth state that the entrepreneurial spirit should be developed in rural areas, but not exclusively in the agricultural sector.

This should lead to a change in the relationship the agricultural sector and community have with Governments, society and the environment.

The panellist from the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture said that agricultural smallholders were in fact private sector actors, not aid recipients.

ILO specifically reports on target 4, indicator 11, concerning the share of women in wage employment and in the non agricultural sector.

Labour laws do not yet cover workers in the informal sector, e.g. small shops, workshops as well as the agricultural work force.

The bulk of the world's labour force worked in the agricultural sector and three quarters of the working poor were in developing countries.

The proportion of women employed in the non agricultural sector rose from 35 per cent in 1989 to 37 per cent in 2000.

The share of women in wage employment in the non agricultural sector declined from 37.6 percent in 1998 to 28.3 percent in 2002.

26), the Government took steps to strengthen the agricultural sector, which included providing training to farmers and assisting them in marketing their produce.

Others argued that Afghanistan was likely to remain a predominately agricultural economy and would benefit most from development strategies which focused on that sector.

Possible examples in the agricultural sector include improved manure management, reduction of enteric fermentation, improved fertilizer usage or improved water management in rice cultivation.

As a cross cutting service, technical assistance is also provided for developing the agricultural machinery manufacturing sector by establishing rural technology centres for technology transfer and appropriate repair and maintenance of basic agricultural tools and agro processing equipment in rural areas.

the fact that women comprise only 16 of the people who declare themselves as occupied in the agricultural sector (IBGE PNAD 2003) illustrates this phenomenon .

In the least developed countries in South East Asia, economic growth continues to vary widely from year to year, depending on developments in the agricultural sector.

The three main areas in which the Organization enjoyed a comparative advantage were private sector development with efficient, and therefore sustainable, use of natural resources trade capacity building and the creation of productive capacities in the non agricultural sector.

Despite those measures, however, women lagged far behind men, and their participation in the labour force was decreasing as a result of women's migration from rural to urban areas, and thus from the agricultural sector to the informal sector.

Temporary unskilled labour in the non agricultural sector (H2B visas) increased by 50 per cent in 2000 and reached 72,400 in 2001, double the number in 1999.

This continued economic growth was spurred by donor funded imports, nationwide reconstruction and rehabilitation projects, broad recovery in the agricultural sector, and increased investment in the country.

Studies in Ireland and France indicate that the resultant regeneration of the agricultural sector can create between 11 and 15 jobs per 1,000 tons of biodiesel produced.

Opportunities for sustained growth in those countries therefore crucially depend on securing a more dynamic agricultural sector, which also requires that the developing countries undertake the necessary reforms.

From the outset of the war the industry of Kyrgyzstan was restructured for wartime production, and the entire agricultural sector of the Republic was working for the front.

(d) Unfortunately, in Canada, a comprehensive strategy to address high energy costs in the agricultural sector or to encourage sustainable energy use on farms has not been developed.