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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UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 10 February 2025
countries, including waste treatment and recycling, coral reef insurance, sustainable aquaculture and agriculture, ecotourism, blue carbon credits, and mechanisms for sustainable Marine Protected Area (MPAs) finance …
IGS: Institute for Global Sustainability · 13 January 2025 English
effects on health and ecosystems. Emissions have increased over 40% since 1970, primarily from agriculture, fossil fuels, and waste management. The Global Methane Pledge aims for a 30% reduction by 2030 …
increased over 40% since 1970, primarily from agriculture, fossil fuels, and waste management. The Global …
UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues · 10 January 2025 English
Submission of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues November 2024 Executive Summary UN Women has continued …
Traditional practices, such as sustainable agriculture, water management, and biodiversity conservation …
World Bank Group · 9 January 2025
In seeking to reach upper middle-income status by 2030 and high-income status by 2045, Vietnam aspires to become a modern and industrialized nation with a higher quality of life for …
risk from riverine and coastal flooding in the agriculture, aquaculture, tourism, and industry sectors. …
World Bank Group · 9 January 2025
significant rise in youth unemployment, with females at 7.9 percent and males at 4.4 percent. The agriculture sector remains a key economic activity, employing 49.2 percent of the labor force. This study aims …
World Bank Group · 9 January 2025 English
The other elements of the Procurement Plan as required under paragraph 4.4 of the Procurement Regulations are set forth in STEP. [...] The Bank’s Standard Procurement Documents: shall be used …
Weighing Scales (Digital Spr ing Balance) for Agriculture S urvey - 317 units IDA / 65760 Regional component: … Procurement of Logistics and Survey Instru ments for Agriculture Survey (Raincoats-378, Field Boots-3 78, Manuals-428 …
World Bank Group · 9 January 2025
margin of firm-level trade. However, they do diminish trade at the intensive margin in both the agriculture and manufacturing sectors. Small firms are more affected at the intensive margin compared to medium … a reversal of the trade-reducing effect of standards and technical regulations, whereas in the agriculture sector, this effect is less pronounced for their counterparts. The results also suggest that African …
World Bank Group · 9 January 2025 English
This paper documents the life cycle of formal and informal plants using five waves of the Mexican establishment census. Formal plants begin operations with three times more workers than informal …
not. 10To be precise, our analysis excludes agriculture (11 in the NAICS classification system); mining …
