Until recently the booming farming sector has been a small bright spot in the American economy.
In Zimbabwe, the problems have been exacerbated by the government's seizure of land from the commercial farming sector.
But the monks faced opposition from many quarters, including the farming sector, where Shambo was seen as a disease risk to livestock.
While the country's big businesses are seen as supporters of joining the pact, the country's farming sector has been voicing its objection to any such move.
It needs to create new jobs for the millions employed in state-owned enterprises and the farming sector whose jobs will become redundant after China joins the World Trade Organization.
But, unable to persuade others of the case for an overhaul of farming (there had been a deal to reform the sector in 2002 and others refused to accept another one), he ended up cutting aid to poor member states in order not to reduce Britain's rebate even more.
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Massive job creation in the urban sector, in manufacturing, succeeded in moving people out of farming.
The National Farmers' Union chairman in Ceredigion, John Davies, appealed to the Welsh government to continue the "vital research into upland farming" through a collaboration with a research body in the public or private sector.
Nigeria could funnel its oil revenues into a more efficient financial system that could provide capital to the private sector to build roads and power stations and expand private enterprises, such as farming.
With collective action across these five pathways, actors from the private sector and the development community can contribute to feeding the world, increasing incomes in farming communities, and preserving our natural resources.
Outside Athens some in the public sector see their jobs as a sideline to earn pin money while their main occupation is farming.
He said they had done so at a time when farming incomes were falling and farmers were "consistently been forced to take low incomes in the beef sector as supermarkets and processors relentlessly press for low prices".
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