's attitude toward plants that have been genetically improved to conserve water--a commodity which is, of course, critical for agriculture--is illustrative.
He said little about agriculture -- on which 80% of Chinese still depend for a living -- and the widening gap between the rich and the poor.
And we will also focus our assistance in areas -- such as agriculture -- that can make an immediate impact in the lives of the Afghan people.
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The latest rough patch for the North American Free Trade Agreement has been the resistance of Mexican agriculture--especially poultry ranchers--to a New Year's wipeout of tariff protections against U.S. agricultural exports.
Accordingly, the Center for Security Policy calls on the Foreign Relations and other interested committees -- including Banking, Finance, Armed Services, and Agriculture Committees -- to hold urgent hearings on the SEED II legislation.
But it leaves a problem of an unregulated, unprotected workforce, without which some parts of the American economy - notably agriculture - would be struggling.
According to the Thai statistics office, there has been a marked increase in 13- and 14-year-olds employed in agriculture, reversing a decades-long trend.
They were not quite hunter-gatherers besides hunting and foraging, they also practised slash-and-burn agriculture but they did live in self-sufficient villages, and there was little disparity of income between villagers.
The White Springs, West Virginia, resort declared bankruptcy in 2009, and new owner Jim Justice, a local coal-and-agriculture baron, is trying to bring the 6, 750-acre property into the modern era of luxury--and extend its appeal beyond a graying demographic.
Mr Miliband said the government was wrong to focus on total expenditure in Europe rather than where the money was spent since the constituent parts of the EU budget - particularly the level of spending on agriculture - were in "desperate need" of reform.
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Investigators determined that Marin had ordered the quick-acting poison -- typically used in agriculture and gold mining -- from a California-based company and that it was delivered by FedEx to his home in 2011.
The latest alternative would be a system of non-profit health insurance cooperatives modeled after rural agriculture co-ops.
Indeed, my agency Elasticity works with a number of agriculture-based clients such as seed-maker Monsanto, crop-and-commodities predictor Lanworth, Intervet Schering-Plough and SFP, to name a few.
The chancellor published a paper arguing for long-term change to create a "sustainable future" for agriculture worldwide - including reform of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy.
Earlier in the day, First Secretary Alun Michael had vociferously defended what many perceived to be a bad start for the Assembly with the controversy over the beef-on-the-bone ban, the appointment of a vegetarian agriculture secretary and a non-Welsh speaker as Welsh language minister.
In terms of performance in the last year, iPath Dow Jones-UBS Agriculture Total Return exchange-traded note ( JJA) has been the clear winner, gaining a full 59.10%.
The note consists of futures of contracts of seven agricultural commodities (soybeans, corn, wheat, cotton, soybean oil, coffee and sugar) and tracks the return of the Dow Jones-UBS Agriculture Total Return Sub-Index.
But, despite being no stranger to foot-and-mouth - he worked alongside the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food during the 1967 outbreak - even he has been taken by surprise at the virulence of the latest outbreak.
Throughout my years in agriculture education, I have learned about various topics in agriculture- from crop sciences to animal production to business management and more.
Although the effects on agriculture - which makes up less than 2% of the economy - were "minimal", the tourism industry has clearly taken a hit.
"As a net beneficiary of EU membership, parts of Wales receive structural funds for all-important fields such as agriculture and education - funding which is vital for some of our poorest communities, " she said.
The deluge has caused extensive damage to key crops - such as wheat, cotton and sugar cane - in a country where agriculture is an economic lynch-pin.
According to a study led by two Stanford University scientists and published earlier this year, advances in high-yield agriculture during the past half-century have prevented massive amounts of greenhouse gases--the equivalent of 590 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide--from entering the atmosphere.
Of the four global regions inhabited by primates, the worst hit is Madagascar, where loss of habitat to traditional slash-and-burn agriculture has left some lemur species, such as Perrier's sifaka, stranded in tiny areas of forest.
Texas Tech, best known for its engineering and agriculture-oriented programs, for example, is thriving.
Such violations didn't trouble Ohio's agriculture department--Hershey and Bethel didn't have a history of "substantial noncompliance"--and it issued the permits.
The Cairns Group, an association of agriculture-exporting countries in the Americas and Oceania, wants to abolish such safeguard mechanisms entirely.
Roy Bennett, the deputy agriculture minister-designate in the unhappy government of national unity that was eventually formed, emerges as a true hero.
High on her list: a renewed focus on agriculture-based fuels like ethanol.
The problem is an amendment that Mr Byrd tacked on to this year's agriculture-appropriations bill in the committee to thrash out differences between the House and Senate.
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