The Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS), a UN system-wide initiative, will amplify the benefits from global to national levels of efforts to adapt to climate variability and change for improved health, water management, disaster risk reduction, agriculture and food security from 2013.
Introduce a system of direct subsidies to farm households, thereby encouraging persons desiring to enter agriculture to do so without great risk.
By the mid 2000s a third of Spain was at risk from desertification due to agriculture, tourism and of course climate change.
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"We eliminated four different agriculture subsidies and instead have moved to risk management so we'll support farmers and ranchers when there's a loss, where there's a weather loss, it's a price loss, through crop insurance, through other things where the farmer has some skin in the game, " Stabenow said.
Given European sensitivities on agriculture, however, there is a big risk that such new initiatives could focus primarily on manufacturing trade and investment, leaving protection for most farm products untouched.
"This virus is exclusive to birds, so there is no risk for public safety, " the Agriculture Ministry said earlier this month.
Some maintained that many of the natural pesticides produced by plants were potentially more of a risk than the synthetic ones used in conventional agriculture.
Department of Agriculture advisors have identified the areas where the animals are most at risk.
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Irish Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney reassured the public that the burgers posed no health risk, adding that the Republic of Ireland "probably has the best traceability and food safety in the world".
The president also was to call on the departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture to come up with a plan to improve the immunization rates for children "at risk" within 60 days.
In a statement, California Department of Food and Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross said CDFA veterinarians were working with the USDA to determine whether other cows are at risk.
U.S. agriculture and business interests are eager to jettison Jackson-Vanik so as to transfer to the taxpayer the risk of doing business with the Soviet Union while retaining the profits.
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On Tuesday Alun Davies, the deputy minister for agriculture, told assembly members he had confidence in the food chain in Wales and there was no evidence of a risk to human health.
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