EU's unwillingness to negotiate on agriculture, developing countries are still digesting the Uruguay round agreement, which they feel gave them a raw deal.
'Its very ironic that the World Bank and other international institutions do not allow any concessional credit for agriculture in developing countries, when at the same time they are allowing subsidies in the North.
China and India are now battling epidemics of diabetes and obesity, and 1.4 billion globally are considered overweight. 90 percent of water used in developing nations goes to agriculture, and yet a full third of what is grown is wasted.
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Within those two buckets what was relevant was that in the developing world most people still depend on agriculture for their livelihood and want to know how to stay healthy in their limited means because each healthy day is a wage earning day.
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The divide over agriculture threatens to undermine Doha because the developing countries, which object most strongly to the trade-distorting subsidies provided to farmers in the industrial world, were such reluctant participants in the first place.
She also controls chemical manufacturer Altana and holds stakes in wind power outfit Nordex AG and carbon and graphite producer SGL and Geohumus, which focuses on developing a water storing granulate to be used in agriculture.
And tonight, I ask the Congress to support an innovative proposal to provide food assistance by purchasing crops directly from farmers in the developing world, so we can build up local agriculture and help break the cycle of famine.
Rich countries are particularly protectionist in many of the sectors where developing countries are best able to compete, such as agriculture, textiles and clothing.
It's also easy to overlook the damage inflicted on local ecosystems and economies -- a large portion of which are in the developing world -- as a consequence of current industrial-scale agriculture practices.
The paralysis on agriculture spread to the rest of the talks, because many developing countries were reluctant to make concessions elsewhere without progress on farm trade.
Again, not surprisingly, agriculture ranks the lowest in geographic distribution, being concentrated mainly in developing economies in Asia.
Women play a prominent role in developing local and regional food systems that are creating jobs, pulling new people into agriculture, connecting communities, and improving health.
The same is true of China, which has a currency peg to the dollar and is thus fully exposed to the rising oil price, and has also, like many other developing countries, become much more reliant on oil in recent years as their economies have moved from agriculture to heavy manufacturing.
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The same is true of China, which has a currency peg to the dollar and is thus fully exposed to the rising oil price, and has also, like many other developing countries, become much more reliant on oil in recent years as its economy has moved from agriculture to heavy manufacturing.
Agriculture now accounts for roughly 70 percent of global water use, but as dietary changes in developing countries raise demand for water-intensive foods such as meat and dairy, this proportion will grow yet higher.
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