Agriculture
Agriculture is the science and art of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities. The history of agriculture began thousands of years ago. After gathering wild grains beginning at least 105,000 years ago, nascent farmers began to plant them around 11,500 years ago. Pigs, sheep and cattle were domesticated over 10,000 years ago. Plants were independently cultivated in at least 11 regions of the world. Industrial agriculture based on large-scale monoculture in the twentieth century came …
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ADB: Asian Development Bank · 21 December 2024 English
and institutional capacity Sector / Subsector Agriculture, natural resources and rural development / Land-based … Department Sectors Group Responsible ADB Division Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development Sector Office …
UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 18 November 2024 English
Theme: Educate. Advocate. Act now Where: Worldwide Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites no longer respond to antimicrobial agents. As a result of drug resistance, antibiotics …
The Quadripartite organizations - the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the …
UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 29 October 2024 English
Schedule Sessions Participation & Registration Rationale The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has been working on monitoring and evaluating plastic pollution, particularly in rivers, since 2019, with funding from the …
15:00 Session 8 Reducing Plastic Emissions in Agriculture: Potential for Decentralized Monitoring at Farming … Programme Session 8: Reducing Plastic Emissions in Agriculture: Potential for Decentralized Monitoring at Farming …
UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 27 October 2024 English
Agenda Date: 27 October 2024 Time: 13:30-14:30 COT Location: GEF Pavilion, MUSEO - Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia
cities. As cities expand, they take land from agriculture and other ecosystems, intensifying pressure on …
PCNS: Policy Center for the New South · 22 October 2024 English
This phase of hyper-globalization and deterritorialization began to reverse after the 2008 subprime crisis, the aftermath of which saw the beginning of the deglobalization period of today. [...] In contrast …
dependent on availability of land compared to agriculture and manufacturing. In the digital era, the importance … decisions that are not always simple to make. Today, agriculture covers half of the planet’s habitable surface … from origin to final consumer.; 2 (c) precision agriculture, which optimizes the use of water and inputs …
IRENA: International Renewable Energy Agency · 21 October 2024 English
Renewable energy
80% of economically active women are in the agriculture sector (UNDP, 2021), where DRE solutions could … could benefit from DRE technologies, including agriculture and food production. As in the case of employment … Juliana recognised the potential of regenerative agriculture to help mitigate the alarming levels of food … (accessed Otieno Onyalo, P. (2019), "Women and Agriculture 27 May 2024). in Rural Kenya: Role in Agricultural …
PCNS: Policy Center for the New South · 21 October 2024 English
From the Peace of Westphalia1, which birthed the concept of the modern state, to the end of the Second World War, and the 1978 Reform and Opening-up of China2, these …
renewable energy potential, resources, intensive agriculture, and growing Policy Brief - N° 56/24 - October …
The Australia Institute · 19 October 2024 English
Introduction The purpose of this study is to first, outline the scale of potential domestic demand and supply for onshore and offshore wind-towers used in electricity generation; second, determine the …
compared with the goods sector, which includes agriculture, manufacturing and mining.’ 7 Although not associated … Australia, primary industries (especially mining and agriculture) have a privileged place in development, as their … uses of energy include transport; mining and agriculture (internal combustion engines using Industrial … in return for improved access by Australian agriculture and services to overseas markets. This interpretation … for improved access by Australian exports of agriculture and services. Finally, there may be a connection …
ICIPE: African Insect Science for Food and Health · 18 October 2024 English
He was promoted to the position of a Research Scientist on 1 September 2016 in the Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics (MBBU) Unit and became head of the Unit on 9 …
Page 1 of 8 Samira A. Mohamed (Sudan) Head of Agriculture & Climate Change Thematic Research Programme … Consultant Research Scientist at the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) in Tsukuba … Bachelor of Science in Agriculture Management degree, a Diploma in Agriculture, and several on-job-training … or interest areas are in urban and peri-urban agriculture in developing world, Geographical Information … Consultant at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Yaounde, Cameroon. With over 25 publications …
18 October 2024 English
THE IMPORTANCE OF GROWTH MODELS: LESSONS FROM THE 1950S TO 1970S Developing countries must find ways to mobilize resources, both domestic and international, to increase capital and labor inputs to …
MODERNIZING AGRICULTURE SHOULD BE THE GROWTH MODEL FOR AFRICA HUNG TRAN PB -54/24 OCTOBER 2024 POLICY … comparative advantages and urgent needs, modernizing agriculture should be the growth model for Africa. HUNG TRAN … comparative advantages and urgent needs, modernizing agriculture with the aim of producing increasing volumes … compared with 27.5% from industry, and 17.6% from agriculture. However, services contribute only 31% of India’s … to 39%—having absorbed the surplus labor from agriculture—raising its GDP contribution from 50% to 56% …
