Focus areas include agriculture, environment, health, sanitation, family planning, education, literacy and rule of law.
Its rural economy project, for example, excluded civil servants from the agriculture and environment departments.
Sark's Agriculture and Environment Committee also claimed the water supply could be polluted by pesticides and fungicides if more vines were planted.
If this issue can be resolved, the trade talks will come down to whether a compromise can be fashioned on the issues of agriculture and the environment.
In Africa, because of economic pressures and slower evolution of environmental awareness, local communities have been particularly exposed to the detrimental effects of mining contamination on public health, agriculture and the environment.
Researchers at the University of Arizona's Controlled Environment Agriculture Center (CEAC), in collaboration with Sadler Machine Company (SMC), have come up with one solution: to house plants and astronauts in an inflatable habitat.
Precision agriculture is saving farmers across the country millions of dollars annually and dramatically reducing the impact of large-scale agriculture on the environment by avoiding unnecessary application of fertilizers and pesticides to crops.
Ms de Lange said it was not just a question of the environment and agriculture but a question of morals and ethics.
At a news conference, the ministers for the environment, agriculture and development said the president had struck a balance between preservation and sustainable development.
Environment minister Alex Attwood spoke of the importance of the meeting the following day between representatives of the environment and agriculture departments and European Commission officials.
The minister said there were currently two total exclusion zones for fishing in the lough, and the environment and agriculture departments had agreed to establish two further zones.
The Ulster Wildlife Trust took a second complaint to Europe late last year and now the Departments of Environment and Agriculture have to meet with the European Commission to explain themselves.
Called The Committee on the Environment, Agriculture and Local and Regional Affairs, its report calling for restrictions on mobile phone and WiFi usage was finalised over a week ago but is only just finding its way into the news media.
The Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture is making checks on each site planted since 2007.
The legislation also gives the Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture (Defa) powers to take action to contain or eradicate the disease when identified.
Ministers also agreed to work together in the areas of transport, agriculture, education, health, the environment and tourism.
However, arsenic is also used in industry (as a wood preservative, and also in paints, dyes, metals, drugs and soaps) and in agriculture and is sometimes released into the environment from factories, industrial plants and farming enterprises.
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The Environment Agency, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and local authorities all have a part to play but the report said they should work more closely together.
Peace Corps staff overseas have been working with Volunteers on a variety of projects in the fields of agriculture, business and information technology, education, environment, and public health.
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Peers considered the programme of legislation for the new session proposed in the Queen's Speech focusing on agriculture, business, the economy, energy, environment, local government and transport.
"Those who will be most hurt by the Bolivian government's decision are the Bolivian citizens who have benefited from our collaborative work on education, agriculture, health, alternative development, and the environment, " it said in a statement.
We welcomed increasing regional cooperation under the U.S.-Lower Mekong Initiative (LMI) in the areas of energy security, health, agriculture and food security, education, connectivity, environment and water, which significantly contributes to quality of life and capacity building among the Lower Mekong Basin countries, and supports ASEAN's aim of narrowing the development gap among its Member States and addressing the common challenges.
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It operates mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and works across health, education, agriculture, peacemaking, emergencies, economic empowerment and the environment.
The production and littering of plastic bags are therefore not only a hazard for the environment but have also significant repercussions on tourism and agriculture, both important pillars of Jordan's economy.
UNESCO, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are acting as the interim Secretariat of IPBES until such time a permanent secretariat is set up in Bonn.
The Environment Agency has confirmed to the Welsh Assembly's agriculture committee that a borehole on the Eppynt has been contminated with run-in from the disposal pit.
Over ten UN organizations, including UNESCO-IOC, the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), are participating in the UN Pavilion to raise awareness of international efforts to promote the preservation of marine environment and sustainable development of oceans and coasts.
Files that the BBC has seen suggest that when the Department of Environment make a suggestion it was often ignored by the Department of Agriculture.
In fact, this process is comparable to the use of fertilizers in agriculture, i.e. adding nutrients that are found to be lacking in the local environment to stimulate plant growth, in this case phytoplanckton that form the base of the marine food-chain.
Ann Veneman, Mr Bush's agriculture secretary, suggested a more sensible approach to farm support, unlinking subsidies from production and focusing more on the environment.
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