He explains his journey into farming

I've always been interested in working in agriculture.

More than 80 of Afghanistan s population depend on agriculture for a living.

We spent our holiday exploring rural France.

In last May's national elections, India's rural voters unseated the ruling coalition.

Domestic farmers are portrayed as irreplaceable defenders of the social fabric and traditional values.

On top of this, farming is presented as analogous to the military.

Maize plants have withered, hitting poor rural families hard.

He has a wonderful story of talking to a villager in India and saying, Have you taken your Dapsone? Yes.

When they go back to the the countryside, they find themselves unable to do farming.

Laos is a developing nation in Southeast Asia with a majority rural population.

Chabrol said that he always thought of himself as a country person, and never as a Parisian.

Eduardo Nogueraestimates that in later stages only 20 of the population was dedicated to agriculture and food production.

In sub Saharan Africa, for example, it s estimated that 40 percent of the urban population is engaged in agriculture.

This will enable hundreds of thousands of displaced people to return to their village communities and live from farming.

We call these technologies agriculture, and, for the first time, they gave human beings the power to move outside the laws of natural selection.

Most of the world s poorest people are rural, small holding farmers, virtually untouched by modern agriculture.

It was an eye opener as I realized that farmers are generally looked down upon especially the small scale ones.

By farming smarter, he said, Ugandans not only can grow more, they can earn more money.

They should commit to advancing sound agricultural management, maintaining well functioning markets, and increasing investment in agriculture.

Sunlabob, a private company in Laos, is renting solar lanterns to poor villagers, who find them more affordable than candles.

The jury was composed of three men and one woman friend, none of them linked to agriculture.

Like anyone who farms in a city, Leadley waxes eloquent on the freshness of her product.

Also in each area I discovered a new vocabulary to do with the sea or the land and the cattle or the revolution.

It is the task of women and children to queue up for drinking water and then carry home heavy tanks with water through hundreds of meters of broken rural roads...

In a region that reveres the elderly, Zuma s attachment to his rural traditions must be matched by an equal openness to the appetites of the country s youth.

He stirred up national pride and promised rural Thais that their country would rise to greatness following the devastating 1997 economic crisis.

It documents cases relating to housing, business, health, transportation, trade, banks, drugs, agriculture, politics, culture, and the media.

The new government would reaffirm the fundamental right to private property, and would set about issuing legal title to ownership in the form of deeds to rural and urban dwellers.

Doing so will require greater sustained attention to underserved rural areas and migrant populations, and to restructuring social policies in order to ensure secure safety nets.

Until the late 1800 s, most of Africa was unexplored and occupied by hunter gatherers and practitioners of subsistence agriculture.

All this despite the fact that was a much more cultured and European country, with agriculture that remained intact, with a developed consumer goods production, with roads and service!

Japan caught up with the West with its own distinctive brand of capitalism, combining a dynamic export sector with an inefficient and protected set of activities in services and agriculture.

But this does not mean that agriculture should be neglected on the contrary, it remains a way of life for many millions of Indians, who need capital and new technology.

Building on this success, the One Million Community Health Workers campaign was recently launched to expand community health worker programs in Sub Saharan Africa by the end of 2015. With the use of the latest communications technology and diagnostic testing materials, the health workers will be able to link the rural poor to the broader system of doctors, nurses, hospitals, and clinics.

With the use of the latest communications technology and diagnostic testing materials, the health workers will be able to link the rural poor to the broader system of doctors, nurses, hospitals, and clinics.

Of course, the African leaders were most appreciative of the next message China is prepared to help Africa in substantial ways in agriculture, roads, power, health, and education.

As countries emerged, many placed a new emphasis on harmony, in an effort to redress the growing divide between rich and poor, urban and rural.

Kamwenji worked in different sectors unrelated to agriculture before he realised the importance of using latest technologies for networking and marketing of farm produce.

It may also be time we consider embracing high tech even genetically modified agriculture to provide the food we need on smaller areas of land, leaving more space for wildlife.

Gradually, local elections spread to nearly every village and a simple decentralized system of checks and balances between the village committee chief and the village assembly was established.

The new Sustainable Development Goals should be explicitly linked to environmental issues after all, hunger cannot be eliminated without taking into account the complex interaction between agriculture, water, and extreme weather.

That's why I am giving this machine only in rural India, for rural women, because in India, you'll be surprised, only two percent of women are using sanitary pads. The rest, they're using a rag cloth, a leaf, husk, saw dust, everything except sanitary pads.

For example, Ambassador Melanne Verveer has attended more than 1,000 events around the world focused on empowering women in areas ranging from peace negotiations to farming.

On an extended trip this summer through rural areas of Asia, the Middle East, and Africa on behalf of the United Nations, I visited countless villages afflicted with extreme hunger and struggling to survive against the odds.