Give us tools. Give the farmers tools.

Agricultural markets should be privatized.

Do you have any farm animals?

Of course, there were abuses, such as the allocation of public credits to richer farmers rather than to needy ones, or the prolonged subsidization of inputs even after farmers became creditworthy.

And in many cases, government agricultural banks went bankrupt.

A large portion of the non urbanized area is dominated by agriculture land.

We even decided over the phone what kind of pesticide to use and which tractor company to hire.

Of course, farmland is much less important than other speculative assets.

As pesticides are assumed to have adverse effects on natural capital they are inconsistent with sustainable development.

Will you advocate a development round that emphasizes liberalization of labor markets more than capital markets, elimination of non tariff barriers that keep developing countries goods out of advanced industrial countries, and abolition of so called escalating tariffs, which impede development?

So it is not the sum of the two that matters, but the deal between the two, which should be viewed as a prototype of the emerging Europe.

Were China to revalue its currency, its farmers would be worse off but in a world of free(r) trade, US farm subsidies translate into lower global agricultural prices, and thus lower prices for Chinese farmers.

Will you press for Europe and America to eliminate their agricultural subsidies?

But agricultural subsidies have consequences for China and other developing countries.

Much sets us apart EU enlargement, agriculture, and domestic market issues.

In Benin, this adaptation other would call it constraints is seen in the attempts of some Beninese to make productive soil out of spoiled soil by using pesticides.

Around the world, government run agricultural banks in poor countries once not only financed inputs, but also provided agricultural advice and spread new seed technologies.

During the meeting, the Chinese leaders emphasized their readiness to support agricultural research as well.

You know how you are told to give your kids organic food because pesticides will give them cancer?

Modern cancer causing agents like diesel exhaust, pesticides, and other air pollutants are not systematically studied.

says we have 219 toxic pollutants in our bodies, and this includes preservatives, pesticides and heavy metals like lead and mercury.

Pêssego remembers seeing independence in 1975 as a boy in 2nd grade, after having worked for an agricultural company spraying pesticides.

Moreover, with less government support, rural credit has often become prohibitively expensive.

This would still be less than what high income countries invest in agricultural research.

The United Nations Millennium Project involves a large scale, coordinated big push of investment in human capital, public infrastructure, and agricultural technologies.

This would still be less than what high income countries invest in agricultural research. 160

The list of urgent concerns is topped by global warming, but also includes terrorism, pesticides, and the loss of biodiversity and seems to have virtually no end.

The problem is that these improved inputs have bypassed the poorest farmers and the poorest countries. When peasants lack their own saving accounts and collateral, they are unable to borrow from banks to buy seeds, fertilizer, and irrigation.

The planet s biomass forests, pastureland, savannas, and crops make up productive capital that generates a 10 return every year.

Brazil suffers from declining agricultural prices, though it benefits from falling oil prices.

GM crops that resist certain pests and tolerate herbicides have gained rapid acceptance in many countries.

The agricultural system and, more importantly, the crops in the field in India have never experienced this before.

The problem is that these improved inputs have bypassed the poorest farmers and the poorest countries.

And data driven agriculture supply chains will move them more effectively to the market.

We need agricultural systems that are more resilient to climate change, and that can contribute to mitigating it.

Arab raiders were crossing Israel s unfenced borders to rob cattle and steal farm implements, sometimes attacking civilians.

But, from 1911 to 2010 in the US, the correlation between annual real growth of prices for homes and farmland was only 5 , and the latest data on farm prices have not shown anything like the decline in home prices.

Because it persists after spraying, DDT works far better than many pesticides now in use, some of which are toxic to fish and other aquatic organisms.

The European Union s agricultural subsidies, for example, are high enough to permit every cow in Europe to fly business class around the world.

Agricultural protectionists, through the language of food security and food self sufficiency, claim that the same holds true for food.

In the late 19th century, Europe's land based aristocracy was weakened by the competition of cheap grain and other foods shipped across the oceans.

Praktik pertanian yang tidak layak juga patut dipersalahkan misalnya penggunaan pupuk sintesis secara sewenang wenang, akan merusak organisme yang hidup di tanah dan mengubah struktur tanah.

As farm prices and rents fell, aristocracy faced decline.

Its vast agricultural holdings were hamstrung by worn out equipment and the inertia of Soviet state farming.

Meanwhile, rich countries agricultural subsidies and tariffs have undoubtedly undermined food production in developing countries.