And with 90% of the population in peasant agriculture, most Bhutanese remain poor.
This makes sense in a country where two-fifths of the population depend on agriculture for their livelihoods, and where one-third live below the official poverty line.
The main island, Hirta, once supported Britain's most remote community, with the inhabitants surviving for centuries on the seabird population, subsistence agriculture and eating dishes such as baked puffin.
That's no political wonder--65% to 70% of India's population is dependent upon agriculture for their livelihood.
Today, though, only 3.5% of the working population is engaged in agriculture.
More than 60% of India's population directly depend on agriculture.
Although manufacturing and services continue to supplant farming as the dominant forms of South-East Asian output, much of the working population still relies on agriculture (see chart).
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Subsistence agriculture employs approximately 70% of the population.
The expansion of copper and gold mining in Chile and Peru has mainly occurred in arid areas and has led to competition for scarce water with both export agriculture and the needs of the indigenous population.
Agriculture, which employs over 60% of the population, grew marginally at 2.8% in 2011.
Most of our water use worldwide goes to agriculture, so reducing that amount will be critical as our population grows and climate change makes water supplies less predictable.
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In this low-income country, with an economy based on agriculture, forestry and fisheries, approximately 60 per cent of the population still resides in rural areas.
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It might seem the perfect storm: the prospect of less reliable harvests, a growing world population and demand for food projected by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization to rise 70% by mid-century.
Within the initiative of Joint Programme targeted at creation of new income generation opportunities and promotion of improved agricultural practices, 24 rural farmers and dehkhans (small farmers) in target areas were selected to form a network of agriculture extension agents (rural consultants) responsible for provision of consultancy services to rural population and solutions to the problems they might face in application of new agricultural practices.
It has a population of 540, 000, and its two largest sectors are tourism and agriculture.
The UN blames the massive migrations from rural areas either on population growth that the countryside cannot sustain or on economic prescriptions said to emphasize commercial agriculture over small farming, thus driving the poor off the land.
The local population is deeply committed to maintaining the integrity of the ecosystem through the practice of ecologically sustainable agriculture.
Despite a slow down in the overall economic growth rates of China, in my view, worldwide demographic trends related to population growth will continue to place supply pressures on several commodity types with supply capacity issues, notably agriculture and energy based commodities, while periods of market volatility will likely result in continued investor appetites for precious metals.
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