Farmers rely on natural resources to carry out their activities.

A farmer's life is wretched

Nearly 42 is engaged in agriculture and 57.9 in non agricultural activity industry.

Farmers were poor in those days. That's what Dad was, a farmer.

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

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.

Living in the city is really different to living in the country.

Conventional credit institutions are not interested in farming and other types of women's income generating activities such as small scale livestock raising and the processing of agricultural products and harvests.

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

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

In summer there's no work.

In Myanmar, where 70 per cent of the population lived in rural areas, women played a crucial role working on farms and engaging in off farm activities.

None of the rural areas in Lebanon were particularly remote, and there was no great distinction between rural life and urban life.

We were real peasants. We lived well.

In this context, the diversification towards rural non farm activities, initially based on the processing of agricultural resources, is of crucial importance.

At the same time, locally grown fruit and vegetables have become increasingly popular with the public, as well as with local restaurateurs, who support the local farmers.10 In order to promote farming, the Department of Agriculture organized, in March 2004, agricultural exhibitions on the islands of Anegada and Virgin Gorda, as well as a Food Fair and Market Day, as part of the Farmers Week.11

This year, the Ministry of Agriculture conducted a nationwide search for the most beautiful agricultural technological workers.

48. Under the PEACE Initiative, UNOPS is supporting activities in agriculture, income generation, health and education in rural areas.

Subsistence farming was the only source of livelihood.

Women take an active part in the public life of the village.

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Around 65 per cent of young people live in the rural regions.

Nearly 68 of the population lives in rural areas.

You know we depend on our crops to live, don't we?

In addition, FAO and UNDP assisted the Ministry of Agriculture in developing an agricultural revitalization programme to promote agricultural activities throughout the occupied Palestinian territory.

Activities of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations for the empowerment of rural women and gender equality

Noting that hundreds of millions of women worldwide live in poverty and that the majority of poor women throughout the world live in rural areas, where their livelihoods are dependent on subsistence and smallholder agriculture,

Thanks to the activities described above, today many women are in a position to fend for themselves and to earn incomes.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is operating in 14 counties and has distributed seed rice and agricultural tools to 13,000 farmers to increase rice production.

This ranch isn't big enough to hold the two of us.

33. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) undertook a broad range of activities including preparation of activities for World Food Day, 1998, the theme of which is Women feed the world .

(b) To secure a reasonable standard of living for the farming community especially through raising personal income for people employed in agriculture

On this basis, FAO will continue its activities with particular emphasis on food security within the framework of agricultural and rural development.

90. Since its creation, the mandate of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has been directed at alleviating rural poverty and thus improving livelihoods on a sustainable basis.

Activate rural consumption, guide the demand for healthy consumption.

Now she can run all of the activities of her farm.

Not all rural areas are yet electrified.

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

It is obvious that the quality of life in rural areas is poor.

Move to the countryside. Where i will feel close to god.

Activities of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations for the empowerment of rural women and gender equality

Slow recovery of agricultural activities owing to the delayed return of refugees to rural areas as a result of modest improvement in security conditions

Regional activities include policy advocacy on agricultural issues, farmer cross visits, a sustainable agriculture newsletter, an advocacy workshop on sustainable agriculture, national sustainable agriculture fairs, trainer apos s training on a workshop on sustainable agriculture indicators and country focused activities in the Lao People apos s Democratic Republic.

Women play an important role in agriculture, undertaking traditional agricultural work which does not require technical skills, such as the spreading of fertilizer, irrigation and the spraying of insecticide.

The services addressing the development of rural and women's entrepreneurship draw on the fact that sustainable poverty reduction requires the creation of industrial productive capacities based on a dynamic transition from agricultural to rural non farm activities.