Sentences with phrase «agriculture development in this country»

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CHAMPIONS INCLUDE: Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Gilbert Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Former White House Chef, Founder of TROVE and Venture Partner, Acre Venture Partners Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

Taking place in Singapore on 28 - 30th November, the summit begins with an update on sustainability developments H.E. Lyonpo Yeshey Dorji, Minister of Agriculture & Forests of Bhutan, will share the country's commitments to sustainable development.

It is calculated that $ 44 billion a year of official development assistance (ODA) will need to be invested in agriculture in developing countries - against the $ 7.9 billion that is being spent now.

ICOAS brings together scientists, advisors, entrepreneurs, policy makers, associations, non-governmental organisations and other stakeholders to meet and discuss latest research results and developments in organic agriculture in Central and Eastern European countries.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Dr. R.R.A. Wijekoon, Director General of Agriculture, Government of Sri Lanka, said «This will strengthen rice research development activities in the country especially to ensure food and nutrition security and sharing of global innovative technologies for the country's successful rice production.»

Affiliates also join official committees, working groups and task forces on topics like the development of standards or the facilitation of Organic Agriculture in developing countries.

The Scholar Days also included seminars led by Researchers in International Agriculture for Development (RAID) representatives who shared knowledge of how to get your foot in the door and lead a successful career improving livelihoods and food security in developing countries.

At every General Assembly, our members elect the World Board, who shape the direction of our work and appoint Affiliates to committees, working groups and task forces on topics like the development of standards or the facilitation of Organic Agriculture in developing countries.

The continuous growth in agriculture and rice had been mainly possible because of scientific research and innovation, development of new rice varieties (high - yielding, short duration, stress - tolerant rice) and better farm management (with seeds from high - yielding varieties, irrigation, fertilizer, and pest management), which is supported by the country's Ministry of Agriculture, the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council, Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, IRRI - Bangladesh Office, agriculture and rice had been mainly possible because of scientific research and innovation, development of new rice varieties (high - yielding, short duration, stress - tolerant rice) and better farm management (with seeds from high - yielding varieties, irrigation, fertilizer, and pest management), which is supported by the country's Ministry of Agriculture, the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council, Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, IRRI - Bangladesh Office, Agriculture, the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council, Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, IRRI - Bangladesh Office, and others.

In 2012 IFOAM started to implement activities in DPR Korea to assist Organic Agriculture development and capacity building with the goal to improve food security for the people in countrIn 2012 IFOAM started to implement activities in DPR Korea to assist Organic Agriculture development and capacity building with the goal to improve food security for the people in countrin DPR Korea to assist Organic Agriculture development and capacity building with the goal to improve food security for the people in countrin country.

Dr Kanayo F. Nwanze is the President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)-- a specialized United Nations agency dedicated to rural poverty eradication in developing countries through investments in smallholder agriculture and rural dDevelopment (IFAD)-- a specialized United Nations agency dedicated to rural poverty eradication in developing countries through investments in smallholder agriculture and rural developmentdevelopment.

Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Senior Food Analyst at NBC News and former U.S. White House Chef Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh has denied the reports by UN agencies of imminent famine in the country, saying that Nigeria is exporting food to other African countries.

The country has provided immense assistance to Ghana in the areas of health, Agriculture, Education and infrastructure development over the years.

On agriculture development, the President promised that the Federal Government would sustain the provision of funds, improved seedlings and fertiliser to farmers to ensure that the sector remained the largest employer of labour in the country.

President Mahama who disclosed these in a speech read for him by a Member of the Council of State, Mr Adenze Kanga, at the 31st edition of National Farmers Day held in Bolgatanga on Friday, said government recognises the important role the agriculture sector plays in the socio - economic development of the country.

The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) awards Use of Fertility Enhancing Food, Forage and Cover Crops in Sustainably Managed Agroecosystems: The Bentley Fellowship to Canadian or developing - country students or researchers with a university degree in agriculture, forestry, or biology who wish to undertake postgraduate applied on - farm research in a developing country with cooperating farmers.

While in Guinea, Marr led the design and implementation of a project to combat corruption and poor governance in the health, education, and agriculture sectors, problems that USAID theorized were constraining development in the country.

The LDCF plays a key role in addressing urgent and immediate adaptation needs of least developed countries, focusing on reducing the vulnerability of sectors and resources that are central to human and national development, such as water, agriculture and food security; and infrastructure, as identified and prioritized in their National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs).

But on the other hand, we here have to balance that fact against a compelling development argument: agriculture of high - margin organic produce is a potential economic boon for many people in developing countries — which also can diversify their economies and to do so in a (locally) green way.

In the framework of the Cities Farming for the Future programme and the From Seed to Table programme RUAF supported strategic multi-stakeholder planning of local and national urban agriculture policies and programmes for the development of urban agriculture and city region food systems in 18 cities of 12 countries in the global SoutIn the framework of the Cities Farming for the Future programme and the From Seed to Table programme RUAF supported strategic multi-stakeholder planning of local and national urban agriculture policies and programmes for the development of urban agriculture and city region food systems in 18 cities of 12 countries in the global Soutin 18 cities of 12 countries in the global Soutin the global South.

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The Initiative collaborates closely with countries in the Near East in the development of coherent and evidence - based policy and programmes to meet their demands on food security and nutrition whilst building resilience and promoting sustainable agriculture.

This technical document summarizes the output of three Round Table on Organic Agriculture and Climate Change (RTOACC) workshops held to identify available data as well as to pinpoint data gaps that need to be filled in order to develop an organic agriculture methodology for the carbon market that would synergize with general development goals and also potentially benefit smallholders in poorAgriculture and Climate Change (RTOACC) workshops held to identify available data as well as to pinpoint data gaps that need to be filled in order to develop an organic agriculture methodology for the carbon market that would synergize with general development goals and also potentially benefit smallholders in pooragriculture methodology for the carbon market that would synergize with general development goals and also potentially benefit smallholders in poor countries.

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My field is agriculture, with a large emphasis on development, and so I have wanted to know for a long time could anyone actually tell me what to expect in the countries / regions I work in.

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But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

If agriculture can be sustainably expanded without a negative impact on emissions, the report says, agricultural exports could support development in both poor countries and large economies like Indonesia, Brazil and even the US.

The MOOC is part of a work - programme of the Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans (NAP - Ag) Programme, a joint effort led by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to support countries to integrate and address climate change concerns as they affect agricultural sector - based livelihoods in national and sectoral planning and budgeting processes.