Intensive farming is depleting soils.

Farming was an energy bonanza.

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.

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.

Vocational schools were closely linked to large industrial enterprises and collective agriculture.

There also exists an Agricultural Census Organisation to collect statistics relating to various aspects of agriculture.

A few NGOs from the business and industry constituency specifically stressed the need to encourage the participation of all sectors of business, industry, labour and agriculture from both Annex I and non Annex I Parties.

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.

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.

Investment in employment intensive sectors, such as agriculture, was needed in order to reduce rural poverty and marginalization.

15. The native communities have developed agriculture as an activity to supplement hunting, fishing and gathering.

The Ministry of Agriculture also plays a leading role in the rural areas of Jordan, providing agricultural guidance and supplying seedlings, inter alia.

11. The agriculture sector accounts for approximately 4 per cent of GDP.

Labour Inspection (Agriculture) Convention, 1969 (No. 129).

Approximately 2000 2500 agricultural producers use the individual agricultural counselling service annually.

The list has been used by FAO and member countries to collect agricultural data during the last 40 years.

Agriculture, he said, was central to the Convention.

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

It is noted that, in rural areas, agriculture continues to constitute the main occupation of about 60 of the total number of working women.

(e) Convention No. 129, Labour Inspection (Agriculture) (1993).

(f) About 10,000 work on farms or in market gardens.

Labour Inspection (Agriculture) Convention No. 129

Data on off farm income and linkages in agricultural development have also been collected and analysed for several economies.

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

The majority of employed persons who suffered occupational injuries diseases was concentrated in the agriculture sector (42.9 ).

7 Filling the data gap Gender sensitive statistics for agricultural development, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999.

Landholding in Colombia apos s farming areas is characterized by the concentration of farms in properties of under three hectares, which account for 70 per cent of the total.

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

Its Rural Women apos s Office drew up the Plan of Action 1996 1997 to secure equality in rural development, giving priority to

The only difference is in vocational activities, where females concentrate on the domestic sciences and males on industrial and agricultural skills.

21. Thailand s Bank of Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives serves approximately 1 million micro borrowers and 3.6 million micro savers.

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

Perhaps the most pressing constraint on agricultural production is the impending labor shortage, as rural young people, who traditionally comprise the agricultural labor force, flock to cities. With small farmers unable to provide sufficient surpluses, agricultural production will become increasingly consolidated and mechanized, raising fossil fuel consumption, which will have to be offset by the introduction of more efficient technologies.

也许对农业生产最紧迫的约束是严峻的劳动力短缺问题 因为农村年轻人口 传统上他们组成了农业劳动大军 纷纷涌向城市 小农无法生产足够的剩余 农业生产将日渐集中化和机械化 增加化石燃料使用 这必须通过引入更高效的技术以抵消影响

Some 48 per cent of women were involved in agricultural production as compared to 52 per cent of men.

About 56 per cent of the household in these communities engaged in agriculture for subsistence only.

The modernization of agriculture can also increase the risk that rights to biogenetic resources will be concentrated in large commercial enterprises.

(Jordan) managing environmental conserving agriculture and forestry programs managing farming materials bank.

(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

At present, the new collective economy in southern Jiangsu village mainly consists of four development modes, including asset leasing, enterprise stock, agricultural development and joint development.

(f) Supporting the efforts of developing countries, individually and collectively, to harness new agricultural technologies in order to increase agricultural productivity through environmentally sustainable means

There were some other attempts by the Government to transform cooperatives, primarily the agricultural ones of the so called kolkhoz type, into business associations.

MAWRD, National Agricultural Policy, 1995.

In the process, we will gain about a million good jobs, mainly rural.

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