If you look here at this map, showing everything in blue is out in the water, and everything in yellow is upland.

The two recent cases on United States subsidies to upland cotton producers and on EU export subsidies on sugar have a bearing on agricultural negotiations.

It is, however, appropriate to include contiguous upland and near shore subtidal habitats in order to preserve overall ecological function and provide access and space for supporting facilities.

Major challenges at present are the ratio of poor households remains high mainly in the rural, upland and ethnic minority areas which are faced with economic and social difficulties.

However, it is appropriate to include contiguous upland and near shore subtidal habitats, in order to maintain overall ecological functioning and provide access to and space for supporting facilities.

The Service also led a Federal Geographic Data Committee effort to develop national standards for mapping wetlands and was active in a similar attempt to define a standard for mapping upland vegetation.

Yu Shuxun introduced, with the new idea of innovative breeding, they cultivate a new line of extra early ripening, saline alkaline tolerance, low temperature resistant, and high yield upland cotton Chinese Cotton 619 .

In China, the UNDP GEF supported multi agency and local participatory cooperation in biodiversity conservation in Yunnan upland eco systems' made significant efforts to empower women and help them manage microcredit schemes and monitor biodiversity resources.

And you can see from this map, there's this incredible geographical signature of a series of islands that were out in the harbor and a matrix of salt marshes and beaches that served as natural wave attenuation for the upland settlement.

Subsistence activities, such as upland and swamp cultivation of the staple food crops, fishing, hunting of wild animals in nearby forests for domestic consumption and sale and other income generating activities, including domestic fuel production and gold and diamond mining, constitute another major preoccupation of 60 to 80 per cent of Liberia's rural poor.

For Thant, this strategic competition is worrying. The crossroads through Burma, he argues, cannot be a simple joining up of countries, because the regions of China and India that are being drawn together over Burma are among the most far flung parts of the two giant states, regions of unparalleled ethnic and linguistic diversity .isolated upland societies that were, until recently, beyond the control of Delhi or Beijing.

AMSTERDAM In the Mekong Delta, farmers obtain 6 7 tons of rice per hectare in dry seasons and 4 5 tons per hectare in wet seasons, using fast maturing rice varieties that allow up to three consecutive yields annually. By contrast, West African rice farmers harvest only 1.5 tons per hectare of traditional upland rice annually, while other cereals yield no more than one ton a figure comparable to yields in medieval Europe.