ACWW Committee on Agriculture established 2001.

Currently, some 60 countries have OA legislation approved or in draft form.

FAO also assisted the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the development of an agricultural statistics system for the collection and analysis of agricultural sector data.

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.

Self employed women, more often than not, are in agriculture and trade.

Agricultural water use (million m3) ____________

After the termination of these programmes and until the promulgation of law 3226 2004 About the provision of legal assistance to low income citizens (February 2004), the K.E.TH.I.

For purposes of ensuring the accessibility of credit resources for rural commodity producers and farm product processing enterprises, the State joint stock company Agrarian Credit Corporation was created.

Legislation and control have been set up within this framework as a result of the EU Common Agricultural Policy.

Also in 1995, Decree 166 established the Rural Organization and Training Fund (CAPACITAR) in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

That process must be curbed by promoting the creation of economic and commercial centres in rural areas and ensuring better remuneration for agricultural labour.

7. An emphasis on agriculture should not lead to the neglect of industrialization. Experience shows that commodity based industrialization, building on either agriculture or minerals, is a viable option.

The complicated procedure for processing documents for creating dekhkan (individual) farms is slowing progress in the conversion of State agricultural enterprises into individual dekhkan farms.

105. In agriculture and the food industry, besides the nationwide legal regulations concerning occupational safety and health protection, there is also branch legislation in the field of occupational safety and health.

(ix) Integrate climate change considerations into agricultural practices and promote sustainable forms of agriculture

In 1994 an agreement was signed between IICA, the National Planning Department and the Ministry on the introduction of the policy for the development of rural women.

FAO will cooperate in establishing the centre relating to agricultural applications.

Founded in 1946, the International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP) is the world farmers apos organization.

In Peru, the International Integrated Module on Rice was presented by the Agronomy College of the National Agrarian University in Lima.

Integration of climate change considerations into agricultural practices and promotion of sustainable forms of agriculture.

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

(Jordan) preparation of Permaculture pilot farm (4.8 hectares) establishing farming materials bank.

For example, FAO began operation in 1957 and AGRIS and CARIS were established in 1975.

Law 2810 2003 on Agricultural Cooperative Organizations amends the terms of establishment of agricultural cooperatives, favouring the participation of women in the cooperatives.

For example, those engaged in commercial agriculture can choose to extend business partnerships with companies committed to sustainable operations.

Countries emerging from such situations are generally faced with the urgent need to rehabilitate or reconstruct damaged essential socio economic infrastructure, such as that pertaining to the supply of food, provision of repair and maintenance services, and immediate generation of employment.

LEGISLATIVE REGULATIONS Article 1 paragraph 5 (d) of law 2332 1995 on Registry of Farmers and Agricultural Enterprises and other provisions recognizes that head of an agricultural enterprise can be any person, independently of gender .

Article 149 The State encourages those insurance businesses which facilitate the development of agricultural production.

As of 1 June 2004, a total of 84 agricultural commodity producers have been created. The total registered capital of the associations created is 1,517.3 million tenge, the number of participants is 2,733, and the area of land cultivated is 5.5 million hectares.

Also, under the law, each member of a collective farm household has equal rights of ownership during distribution. Restructuring of kolkhozes and sovkhozes into leased enterprises and agricultural collectives is permitted.

National institutions assisting persons interested in organizing and operating cooperatives include the United States Department of Agriculture s Cooperative Services Group, its Rural Utility Service, the Farm Credit System and the National Cooperative Bank.

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

(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

With a view to creating jobs, raising income and shifting the economic structure towards agricultural and rural industrialization. The Government will consider issuing a Decree on Encouraging the Development of Rural Industries.

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

MAWRD, National Agricultural Policy, 1995.

Is not the owner (nor the spouse of an owner) of an agricultural estate, with arable land exceeding an area of two hectares or a farm belonging to a special branch of agricultural production in the meaning of tax legislation

A major element of the reform of the agricultural pension scheme effected by the 1995 Act on Social Reform in Agriculture was the introduction of an autonomous social security coverage for a farmer apos s wife within the Farmers apos Old Age Security as from 1 January 1995 this brought an end to the previously inadequate social protection of this category of person.

As a result of the latter ratification, the legislature found it necessary to harmonize the wages of women working in agriculture with those of men in the same category, thereby ending the system of a 15 per cent abatement on women agricultural workers apos wages.

Commercial Legislation

After this bank was dissolved, two means of acquiring credits were created the Rural Funds (private enterprise for financial mediation for farmers) and the Agricultural Development Funds (Fondeagros) administered by regional governments.

The Ministry of Agriculture is the competent authority for agricultural cooperatives.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives of Tanzania reports that modern cooperative legislation consists of the Cooperative Act of 1991 with amendments of 1997.

Thus, the agricultural institutions working in rural development, in an attempt to facilitate rural funding, has been creating alternative sources of funding such as Agricultural and Rural Development Fund (FFADR), Fisheries Development Fund (FFP), Small Industry Development Fund (FFPI), Fund for Agricultural Credit and Rural Development (CCADR), etc.

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.