In rural areas, the economic activity rates stand at 38 per cent of total rural inhabitants the rate is 10.2 per cent for females and 65.5 per cent for males.

Agriculture plays an important role in the national economy.

In Greece agriculture plays an important role in national economy.

The changes in the focus of Colombia apos s economic policies are imposing new conditions on the rural economy, which have been described above.

The National Federation of UAIMs and Economic Organizations of Rural Women was set up under the Network apos s auspices this is an independent organization whose basic purpose is to support the economic management of their small enterprises by rural women.

In addition, the recent introduction of neoliberal economic policy models has banished the more traditional rural occupations to the periphery.

This has laid a solid foundation for maintaining good harvest year after year, continuously increasing farmers' income, and sustaining healthy economic and social development in rural areas.

But it is also a struggle for survival between economic lifestyles peasants and nomads and the borderline between those two is not the same as that between Arabs and Africans.

Large scale movements of refugees from rural to urban areas and their participation in economic activities had created massive administrative, economic and social problems.

So, we moved from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy.

The Government had a plan to boost economic performance and promote the development of the rural economy and agriculture for poverty alleviation.

Minister of Agriculture and Water Economics

Used principally in coffee growing, the lack of insecticides will have a drastic effect on an essential sector of the country apos s economy and deprive the people dependent on it of their income.

79. Witnesses described the adverse economic effects in the West Bank of closures on farmers who were denied access to their fields for hours or days at a time.

The economy is mostly agricultural.

So I started a farm in Missouri and learned about the economics of farming.

Source Directorate of Agricultural Domestic Economy, Bureau for Equality, ministry for Agriculture

Rural workers women make up 50 per cent of the EAP in rural areas.

Concern is expressed about the vulnerable position of young farmers, caused by the power of big landlords, the liberalization of economies (resulting in the import of agricultural products), the dumping of agricultural products and limited financial support from Governments.

With shares quantifying to each villager, the highlight of the rural collective economic reform is to be clear about the property rights of rural collective management and exploring political and economic separation.

According to UNIFEM data, women whose husbands have become economic migrants head as many as 80 of the households in some rural areas.

BY AGE GROUP AND SEX, SEPTEMBER 1994

The amount of agricultural work done by rural women is related to their economic situation.

Commodities were the basis of the agrarian economy that lasted for millennia.

3.2.1 Major programme agro socio economic research

Systems d information de l Institut d economic rurale au Mali

The reform of the State's economy and the privatization of State and collective farm property have resulted in the absence of collective property, including farm property. At present, credit associations and peasant and household farms are in operation.

Programmes have been set up to develop the rural economy and to integrate employment opportunities in rural areas.

Such a strategy gives agriculture based economies such as ours the option of sourcing our own energy and raising the incomes of farmers at the same time.

It is a process of empowerment that holds the promise of dramatically transforming the socio economic conditions in the countryside.

We're the agrarian economy, and we're supplying commodities.

Agriculture is the key sector in the Namibian economy.

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16. The Department of Agriculture continues to be responsible for this sector of economy.

The country has an agricultural economy with a network of canals irrigating a major part of its cultivated land.

In rural areas, the proportion of housewives among so called economically inactive inhabitants amounts to 66 per cent.

They had to pay high taxes on their agricultural products constituting half of their value, and subjected to a wide range of economic impediments hampering the marketing of their produce.

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.

Since independence, every constitution of the Niger has proclaimed the principle of equality.

Economic Adaptation and Fragmentation in the Rural West Bank (unpublished).

(c) Strengthening of domestic rural agricultural economies by actively contributing to integrated rural development planning.

This percentage increases to 71 per cent if only the migrant female EAP of rural origin is counted.

17. We resolve to promote broad based economic growth in developing countries and countries with economies in transition by strengthening sustainable agricultural and food policies, improving agricultural productivity, including for basic food commodities, and fostering non farm rural economic activities.

The farmers'unrest has lasted a fortnight

And they provide needed economic support for rural communities.