Development and modernization of the agricultural sector.

The agricultural sector

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

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

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

Rural and agricultural development

Agricultural Development Association, Gaza

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.

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

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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.

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.

The Government attached great importance to private sector development of agricultural markets, rural microfinance institutions and domestic credit markets, improvement of land tenure security and expansion of transport links.

Sustainable agricultural development and Arab food security

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

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.

Thus, the agricultural institutions working in rural development, in an attempt to facilitate rural funding, has been creating alternative sources of funding such as Agricultural and Rural Development Fund (FFADR), Fisheries Development Fund (FFP), Small Industry Development Fund (FFPI), Fund for Agricultural Credit and Rural Development (CCADR), etc.

Ms. Vanda Altarelli, International Fund for Agricultural Development

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

Development of the agricultural sector, which employs a significant portion of the labour force in the least developed countries of South East Asia, is essential for poverty reduction, especially in rural areas.

Private sector development

Private sector development

C. Development of sustainable agricultural production and stockbreeding methods

C. Development of sustainable agricultural production and stockbreeding methods

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

Multi sector development support

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.