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[...] and vast areasofarable land.

This may include support for objective and appropriate research about this form of cultivation and its importance to the identity and social and cultural integrity of indigenous peoples.

With few opportunities for wage labour or opportunities for off-farm employment to earn income, many people simply do not get enough to eat.

(6) To acquire, develop, manage, license, hire, let, sell, exchange and otherwise howsoever turn to account any land and/or building and, in particular, by laying out and preparing the same for building purposes, constructing, altering, demolishing, pulling down, decorating, administering, maintaining, furnishing, fitting up, and improving buildings of all kinds, and by planting, paving, draining, farming, cultivating, letting on building lease or building agreement or for sale, and by advancing money to and entering into contracts and arrangement of all kinds with builders, tenants and others in connection with any of the foregoing.

Also considering that a green revolution, particularly in Africa, should be tailored to the needs of diverse local agro-ecological conditions and cropping systems

(i) To develop and turn to account any land acquired by the Company or in which the Company is interested, and in particular by laying out and preparing the same for building purposes, constructing, altering, pulling down, decorating, maintaining, furnishing, fitting up, and improving buildings, and by planting,paving,draining, farming, cultivating, letting on building lease or building agreement, and by advancing money to and entering into contracts and arrangements of all kinds with builders, tenants and others.

Unique organic farming properties withvaluable water licenses, located on the Warrego river system in south-west Queensland.

To increase the ability of women to contribute significantly to improved food security, FTF will strive to: (a) ensure that women producers have equal access to assets, inputs and technology; (b) develop agricultural interventions and practices that target both men and women; (c) prioritize labour-saving technologies that benefit women and girls in the home and allow girls to stay in school, and that benefit women in the agricultural arena as producers, processors and marketers of agricultural goods; (d) expand the involvement and participation of women in decision-making at all levels and in all institutions so that they may help lead the formulation of policy, investments, programme design and implementation; (e) improve access to financial services for women in farming and agribusiness; and (f) help women move beyond production by opening up opportunities to engage in the investment-oriented and transformational sides of value chain production.

West of the Great Dividing Range is farming country: dry plains that cover two-thirds of the state.

Introductions of modern science and technology to smallholder farming should take into account these characteristics and be based on farmer knowledge networks, better infrastructure, and a system approach involving crop rotation and integrated crop and feedstock production.

We call for the promotion of economically viable, socially acceptable and ecologically sustainable farming practices so that food sovereignty of LDC people is strengthened.

[...] [...] cultural identity and integrity and take effective measures to stop all discriminatory acts targeted at indigenous peoples’ practice of shifting cultivation in line with the provisions of ILO Conventions Nos. 169 and 111, ILO Recommendation No. 104 and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including through the delineation and the titling of the territories and lands concerned.

Furthermore, due to their improved business skills, more than 2,500 rural SMEs were able to transform their farming activity from subsistence farming to real businesses.

Agricultural research that builds on seed diversity and sociocultural farming practices needs to be supported, and new and additional financial resources must be mobilized to support adaptation and strengthened resilience to climate change-related impacts.

Alternatives can change cropping systems and production strategies, and so their implementation goes well beyond the replacement of MB.

Delegates were concerned that agricultural productivity growth continued to decline as a result of inequitable access to productive assets, slow innovation and adaptation of advanced farming technologies, inadequate marketing infrastructure, and declining development assistance and public spending for agriculture.

Validated solutions to such key issues as land-based sources of marine pollution, water resource conservation and management, unsustainable land use and inappropriate agricultural practices are being developed withthe aim of replicating these targeted national solutions to address common Caribbean small island developing States issues.

[...] [...] precision farming strategies.

Existing agricultural technologies and techniques included cost-effective smallholder irrigation systems, production practices that emphasized rain-fed agriculture, water harvesting systems, high-quality genetic materials, value-added agricultural production, agro-technological awareness among young people, forestation, prevention of soil erosion and improvements to pastures.

The majority of victims were physically assaulted by groups of unidentified assailants while undertaking livelihood activities, such as farming or proceeding to market.

Women also make important decisions dailywith respect to farming and the choice of crops, as well as on the daily supply of food for the family, thus contributing to the livelihoods of families and communities.

[...] [...] pollution from land and aquatic sources, and aquatic ecosystem degradationfromfarming,mining, industry [...]

A Multilateral Fund-financed project in Lebanon designed to eliminate the use of methyl bromide (a toxic, ozone-depleting chemical) protected human health and provided crop-growerswith access to new technologies and training, while livelihoods were improved by the resulting increase in productivity.

Strengthen research into the three key techniques of straw mulching treatment, mechanical biologicaltillage and chemical herbicide use in protective ploughing.

Relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, including FAO, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), ILO, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) and the World Bank, should recognize the importanceof this form of cultivation to the identity, integrity, livelihood security and sustainable development needs of indigenous peoples.

The Governing Council acknowledged the need to maintain the Centre’s unique niche in addressing poverty reduction through secondary crop farming systems development, despite a change of name, while at the same time noting the limited connotation and lack of concrete definition of “secondary crops” and the need to broaden the scope of the Centre and expand the Centre’s ability to mobilize financial resources.

It had developed a National Food and Nutrition Security Policy that included a special focus on the involvement of women in agriculture andsmallholder farming, was facilitating access to credit through the Agricultural Development Bank and was conducting applied research studies on priority commodities in accordance with the National Agricultural Sector Reform Programme (ASRP).