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The capital held by rural women comes mostly from petty trade, small livestock and farming.

These are old hand farmers who've gone through all the agricultural ups and downs in Kenya over the last 30 years.

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.

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It calls for dismantling trade barriers and ending agricultural subsidies that hurt farmers and small businesses.

As well as carrying out domestic tasks, rural women take part in all socio economic activities, including agriculture, stock raising, handicrafts and petty trade.

We will not do that through small farmers' markets because these people have no small farmers' markets at their disposal.

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.

Micro Credit and Financing of Urban Agriculture

Α. In the Mass Media, as a place of work, creating conditions that will allow democratic representation in employment of individuals of the above mentioned groups.

OFDI by Argentine SMEs in the autoparts, agricultural machinery and software sector is prominent.

7. Promotion of capitalization and greater efficiency in the agricultural sector and in small and medium sized businesses.

The Minister was released an hour later after having been searched.

Bankruptcy among small agricultural producers supplying foodstuffs to the local market.

As a part of the programme, UNIDO will also participate actively in various forums related to the development of policies for the implementation of the Montreal Protocol, including

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.

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.

318. The Dominican Agrarian Institute provides training to owners of parcels, as well as their families, on agricultural production, credit management, the cooperative movement, and the administration of rural businesses.

Cuba had taken measures to facilitate SME access to credit, particularly in the agricultural sector.

With regard to IFAD, the representative of FICSA enquired about the size and the composition of the focus group.

And I grew up in this little farming town in northern Nevada.

Progress has been made in liberalizing the coffee sector and small scale agro industries and agricultural processing have good development potential.

(a) The Asociación de Mujeres y Familias del Ámbito Rural (AMFAR) (Association of Rural Women and Families), which offered four courses on crafts, rural tourism, management of small and middle sized enterprises, and rural tourism and sustainable development

On the basis of the outcome of those assessments, FAO will implement small scale agriculture projects in collaboration with community organizations.

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

Agriculture, predominantly on a small scale, accounts for about 30 of sub Saharan Africa s GDP and at least 40 of export value. In a number of small countries in Africa, agriculture plays an even greater role, representing 80 or more of export earnings.

16. Agricultural production is small and currently concentrated in North Caicos.

Financing for women owned small agricultural or service enterprises in rural areas was available through a programme run by the Women's Agricultural Sectoral Office within the State Secretariat for Agriculture, with support from the Government of Taiwan Province of China.

Recognizing that some effects of market liberalization may deepen the socio economic marginalization of women in the agricultural sector, including through the loss of employment among small scale farmers, who are more likely to be women than men, and emphasizing that women who are small scale farmers need special support and empowerment in order to be able to meet the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities of agricultural market liberalization,

UNEP and the Consultive Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) jointly sponsoring a project on the use of GIS in agricultural research.

The CGIAR system maintains more than 600,000 samples of crop varieties in gene banks, mostly collected from peasant fields. Acknowledging this, CGIAR signed a Trust Agreement with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 1994, pledging to keep the seeds in their collections free of any intellectual property claims.

In 1994 1995 the Government began the work of incorporating women in the National Rural Employment Plan, the Support Programme for Rural Micro Enterprises, the Emergency Rural Employment Programme, and the Job Training Programme.

Let's go back to small scale, to farmers' markets, small bakeries and all that. Wonderful.

7. Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (CGIAR ICRISAT).

The Fund has also been at the forefront in promoting synergies between International Agricultural Research Centres and National Agricultural Research Systems, while seeking to reorient research to smallholder concerns and rural poverty issues.

(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

(c) Access to resources, including microcredit, new technologies and agricultural input

These farms have been identified and will be converted after study on a case by case basis into agricultural development companies, which will be divided into plots and assigned to professionals and young farmers

Against enormous odds, her small farm grew, creating jobs for nearly 200 rural women.

MAWRD, National Agricultural Policy, 1995.

FAO assistance to small island developing States has focused principally on support for sustainable development policies and practices in agriculture, rural development, forestry, fisheries and food security.

Agricultural banks, rural offices of postal savings institutions, and various development and NGO projects have provided credit, often at subsidized rates, to the rural sector, SMEs and micro enterprises.

Emphasis will be placed on entrepreneurship development (with special focus on rural and women's entrepreneurship), the development of horizontal and vertical SME networks for ensuring job creation and income generation, and the strengthening of agro based and agro related industries.

The principal sources of growth in the economy have been agriculture and mining, complemented by the service industry and to a smaller extent manufacturing.