In those months maternal health, breastfeeding and infant care, not agriculture, matter most.
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Think back 200 years, when 80% of the people had to work on the land to produce the surplus food to feed the other 20% who did everything that was not agriculture.
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The editorial points out that not all agriculture will be uncompetitive under free trade.
As Mr. Grant and colleagues -and tens-of-thousands of employees know so well, climate change will not make agriculture any easier in the future.
Engel's law, however, does not mean that agriculture will, sooner or later, become a slow-growth sector.
Again, not surprisingly, agriculture ranks the lowest in geographic distribution, being concentrated mainly in developing economies in Asia.
The source said the agreement would allow for the creation of a new "W" visa for lesser-skilled workers not working in agriculture.
He cut a scheduled meeting with the British and German leaders and threatened to veto any budget that did not protect "agriculture and growth".
It is one of the few EU budgets where the largest share has not gone on agriculture spending, although this is in second place for the 2010 budget.
But the flight from agriculture may not happen as fast, Nassif said, because the current version of immigration reform requires farmworkers to remain in agriculture for at least five years to qualify for the speedier legalization process.
Anyway, Cambodia could not afford to subsidise agriculture even if it made sense to do so.
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But the modernization of agriculture does not replace 100 farm jobs with 100 farm machinery jobs.
They are not fans of corporate agriculture but think genetically modified organisms represent a missed opportunity to make things better.
Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung says the current crisis proves that the global trade practices do not necessarily apply to agriculture products.
As a country gets richer it will automatically de-emphasise agriculture, not least because other sectors grow in comparison, and it can then afford food imports if necessary.
The oil sands are located in a region which, until this resource began to be exploited, was thinly populated and not considered useful for agriculture or much of anything else.
But it's vital that any prioritization of agriculture is not at the expense of the trade in raw materials, according to Ousmane Badiane, Africa director for the International Food Policy Research Institute.
This upbringing strongly influenced my world view and I cannot remember a time in my life when I was not intensely interested in agriculture and equally interested in youth and their development.
The Department of Agriculture does not track hobbyists.
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"By not enforcing the immigration laws the government is sending a signal to farmers that by hiring unauthorized workers they do not have to make a transition to a more mechanized, higher productive agriculture at least not right now, " adds Martin.
He may or may not be right, but as far as the state's agriculture sector goes, it may not matter.
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"I would not like to look at agriculture as a different path to growth than raw materials in a country that has both, " he said.
Much of this optimism is coming from expectations for a big contribution from agriculture, and not investment-led growth, which may last longer and boost the beleaguered industrial sector.
The Agriculture Department does not receive the paperwork from banks until after the grain is actually shipped, and department officials said they did not know who had made the loans.
The main challenge facing the agriculture sector will not be so much to grow 70% additional food in the next 40 years as to make 70% more food available on the plate.
Robin Harper (Green Party Convenor), citing problems with the salmon industry, asked why the Executive's Agriculture Strategy has not been applied and whether the first minister will get a grip of that failing strategy.
In an announcement made today about new commitments to sustainable agriculture, Walmart not only declared its intentions, but also stated it recognizes the power it has to incentivize social and environmental changes through commerce.
For the moment, there is a discussion about export restriction in agriculture, but not with the ambition of putting the disciplines we have on export restrictions on par with restrictions we have on import restrictions.
So the onus on the agriculture business is not to prove it safe as in the pharmaceutical industry, they just have to pass some minimal thresholds then they have the right to get into the marketplace.
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