Conservation agriculture promises economic and environmental benefits.

Particularly, with a view to improving gender equality and position of women in rural areas, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) adopted a Gender Strategy in Agriculture and Rural Development to 2010 and Gender Plan of Action in Agriculture and Rural Development to 2005.

Numbers of female workers in agriculture and horticulture

Agriculture (non energy) Nitrous oxide

(b) The Institute of Agricultural Research and Education, attached to the Ministry of Agriculture and having the function of promoting agricultural research in the higher agricultural education institutes and agricultural research establishments operating under the Ministry

अफ र क क क ष स ब ध ल ग क अ तर क सम प त करन

Farming was an energy bonanza.

Is agriculture adapted to that?

B. Agricultural biological diversity

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) will continue with its Gender Strategy and Gender Action Plan.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has built the capacity of Member States to integrate gender perspectives in policies and programmes and has provided support to over 30 countries in developing sex disaggregated agricultural statistics.

Taking the lead in gender mainstreaming, in 2003 the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development designed and began to implement its strategy to mainstream gender in the field of agriculture and rural development .

(c) The Canadian Federation of Agriculture is a farmer funded national umbrella organization representing provincial general farm organizations and national commodity groups.

FAO initiated a gender and agricultural development strategy, which acknowledged the need for institutional strengthening in the areas of socio economic and gender analysis.

A workshop on the draft gender and agricultural development strategy for Burkina Faso was conducted, which was followed by a recommendation to strengthen institutional capacity to use gender analysis.

Energy, agriculture, forestry, waste management, industry, transportation and adaptation

There are a number of umbrella organizations (unions and federations) run by women.

Agricultural credit also used to be the privilege of men alone, now both men and women farmers can take out loans.

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Gender perspective in the Ministry of Agricultural Development

Renewable energies from agriculture

The national programmes for the creation of productive jobs are associated with the policies for modernization of industry and agriculture and with the promotion of farm exports, micro enterprises and other small businesses.

2001 Environmental Conservation Projects (Vietnam) managing Permaculture pilot farm.

C. Sustainable farm management practices and conservation agriculture to foster carbon storage

The spread of agro industry and rural industrialization has increased the possibilities for women to access cash income through self employment or the setting up of rural enterprises.

require women to play a double and sometimes a triple role, in which their household duties are superimposed on and mixed with their productive and other farm work.

Renewable energy is intimately and inextricably bound up with farmers and farming activities.

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FAO has assisted the Government of Togo in elaborating a gender and agricultural development strategy.

Agricultural sources of energy are becoming the new paradigm for the food and energy business.

Seasonal agricultural workers and shepherds belong to a third group.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) continues to strengthen its efforts towards institutional capacity building in the agricultural sector, assisting the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to develop an agricultural statistics system with the aim of providing agricultural and National Statistics Directorate staff with efficient methodologies for the collection, processing, dissemination and analysis of agricultural sector data.

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Agriculture and energy sector policy reform

The number of women entrepreneurs in agribusiness is very limited, owing both to the fact that only 5 per cent of the country's female entrepreneurs are involved in such activities and to the fact that women represent only 5 per cent of Nicaragua's agricultural producers.

Vice Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries (Ministry of Rural and Agricultural Affairs)

Some youth state that the entrepreneurial spirit should be developed in rural areas, but not exclusively in the agricultural sector.

Lack of unified village development policy deters investments in farming, while possibilities for other kinds of employment in rural areas are minimal.

It was simply awful for women.

This is an indication of the importance of agriculture to this region.

Women's professions in rural areas consist primarily of teacher, medical worker, accountant, economist and seamstress, as well as certain purely farm professions_such as dairymaid, agronomist and veterinarian.

According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Fisheries Report issued in 2004, the two main types of fisheries in the Territory are small scale (commercial) and recreational fisheries.

Biotechnology is an important component of the FAO International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) programme in food and agriculture, which contributes actively to biotechnology applications in agriculture, forestry and fisheries.

(c) Promote the exploitation of agricultural wastes for energy production

For example, switching from traditional till agriculture to a more climate friendly agricultural practice such as conservation agriculture may result in decreased crop yields for the first few seasons while farmers perfect their techniques.