About 80% of Syrians living outside the major cities rely on farming for their livelihood.
There must be bundles of cash (some 40% of the European Union budget goes on farming).
The country remains predominantly rural: over 600m out of 1.24 billion Indians rely directly on farming.
The two countries are not unlike: small, peripheral, Roman Catholic and till recently highly dependent on farming.
Lawyers for a group seeking to block the scheme claimed the impact on farming businesses was inadequately considered.
Any cap would mean that a euro spent on farming takes away from something else, like regional aid.
Without a fixed income, and a greater dependency on farming, the poor often require greater flexibility in their payment patterns.
But they are already committed to negotiate on unfinished business from the previous Uruguay round of trade talks, notably on farming and services.
The company said its machines were set to be used improving roads in rural areas and opening up access in communities that are dependent on farming.
In the 14 countries that depend most on farming, public spending on agriculture almost halved as a share of total public spending between 1980 and 2004.
Lord Haskins, Tony Blair's adviser on farming, recalls going to food industry conferences in the 1970s, when there would be a line of Rolls-Royces outside, all belonging to producers.
Mr Jones also criticised cuts in the common agricultural policy budget - although at Westminster, Labour leader Ed Miliband said the cuts in spending on farming didn't go far enough.
"However, there are a range of factors we need to consider in making a decision on badger control, including public opinion, scientific evidence, animal health and the impact on farming communities, " he said.
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In addition to impacts on farming and ranching operations, a long-term, widespread drought will also have implications for wildfires, water availability, navigation, and power generation across much of the country and across other sectors.
Ethiopia might do better to focus on making farming more profitable on existing holdings.
Importing meat such as grouse can get around America's fiddly laws on game farming.
One of the biggest constraints on African farming is the inability to borrow money for fertilisers.
Had American policy in the last century remained fixated on protecting farming jobs the country would have failed.
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Two out of three Ugandans still depend on subsistence farming, and fewer than one in ten have electricity.
An economy until recently dependent on peasant farming in harsh latitudes has shaped a stoic national character and an appetite for self-improvement.
While universities pump out a ton of research on fish farming, much of it doesn't get commercialized, and the duo didn't want to be locked into one bet.
For all but a few agrarian countries heavily dependent on tobacco farming (such as Zimbabwe and Malawi), a drop in demand for tobacco would not lead to massive job losses, according to the bank.
Will the new department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs force unrealistic ideas on the farming community or will they use this crisis for good and help with the restructuring that this industry desperately needs all the way up the food chain?
Spurred by attacks on white-owned land, many are thinking of farming elsewhere on the continent.
But Congress concentrated on the poor farming community, plagued by droughts and subsequent debts.
With chinampas, the area's Aztec people were basically able to construct new space for farming on previously unhospitable land.
The United States has a long tradition of training children in the craft of farming on family farms.
If you don't allow marginal land to be built on, they're going to build on the good farming land.
"In many other European countries, I see that there is a lot of ambition on how organic farming should develop, " he explained.
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