Agricultural land at 500 metres above sea level is 40 per cent of the total, land at between 500 and 1,000 metres above sea level is 35 per cent, while land over 1,000 metres above sea level is 25 per cent.

The local administration also includes prime agricultural lands including numerous drug farms on lands that were taken from the local farmers.

By the end of 2002, agricultural land had been allotted to approximately 12 million farmer households and 91.74 of the households were granted with agricultural land use certificates, taking up 87.02 of the agricultural land area.

In rural areas, women are involved in selling at markets, or they earn their living as farm workers on private farms.

Rural Health Centers obviously are more concentrated in rural areas (378 with 5636 beds in rural areas compared to 135 with 2250 beds in urban areas).

3.4 FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION (FAO) ACWW Consultative Status since 1947.

The Conference was sponsored by the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA), and the Foreign Agricultural Service, United States Department of Agriculture, and hosted by the Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality Control (EOS) and Egypt's Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute (AGERI).

Many women (heads of households, rural teachers and physicians) receive plots.

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.

Farmers are busy working in the field.

Land under cultivation is 68 per cent of the total and fields are 32 per cent.

In some rural areas as many as 82 of women participate in agriculture work.

In order to improve rural infrastructure and standard of life the Rural Development and Agricultural Market Regulation Act provides for various state benefits to support people living in rural areas.

Farmers were driven off their land, and crops and livestock were destroyed or stolen.

In many areas, rural landowners, especially farmers, have received offers to lease their land from these wind power developers.

The law on the dekhkan (individual) farm contains conditions for making land available, criteria for holding the post of head of the farm, the rules for allocating a land plot, the rights and responsibilities of members of the farm, etc.

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Unemployment in rural areas

This is more so the case in rural areas.

Support to the local communities and cities in subject of agrarian land management in coordination with the extension and the inquiry.

However, the many development projects in place were targeted at rural areas, because the majority of the population lived in those areas and because studies had revealed that there was the greatest need for intervention in the rural areas.

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.

And we have window farms all over the world.

MST Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra Movement of non Landowners Rural Workers

In some rural areas, the Internet is important for agricultural information, as well as being particularly useful for the purposes of agricultural production technologies and pricing.

To implement these measures or Policies, MADER prepared the Integrated Agricultural Program (PROAGRI) in which the management of agricultural lands is a component in addition to others such as agricultural extension, research, etc.

There are differences between agricultural and urban zones in respect to the degree of educational achievement the ratio of the population without any level of education is lesser in the urban areas than in the agricultural ones.

Responsibly Destroying the World s Peasantry

Land use right for women in rural areas

The high rates of mortality are found in the agricultural areas.

Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas

As a consequence of the rural exodus and the transformation of rural areas into small cities and villages, the rural population has decreased from 24 in 1991 to 18 in 2000 (IBGE, Demographic Census).

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

The incidence of poverty is higher in rural than in urban areas (54 per cent of rural and 30 per cent of urban households can be classified as poor).

Measures of agricultural policy should encourage amalgamation of property to allow for application of updated agro techniques and higher yields.

The quest for gender equality could not be achieved without addressing the improvement of the situation of women in rural areas, where most of them lived.

Urban areas grew at the expense of rural areas.

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

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 .

As 75 per cent of the world's poor live in rural areas where agriculture is the main stay of the economy, raising agricultural productivity has real impact on poverty reduction.

Reform of agriculture in Tajikistan began in 1992, when the laws on land reform and on the dekhkan (individual) farm were passed (the latter law was subsequently passed in 2002 in revised form). Since that time, households have received the right to lifetime use of a land plot along with the right of inheritance.

Domestic breeds and organic technology are being unjustifiably ignored.

TB centers in urban areas outnumber those in rural areas.

In the creation of dekhkan farms, local executive bodies of State authority are limited to merely land allocation, and all other matters are handled by the farmers themselves.