Agriculture generally speaking refers to human activities, although it is also observed in certain species of ant and termite.

There is also a College of Agriculture and Home Economics.

Agriculture is also common in the marshlands east of Lake Chad and near swamps or wells.

Dalhousie University also has a strong focus on agriculture, with the addition of the Faculty of Agriculture in September 2012.

The Faculty of Agriculture also has club teams in cross country, equestrian and golf, as well as a number of intramural leagues.

Some countries may denote specific representatives to the FAO, for instance the United States Ambassador to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, who has ambassador rank and is also part of the United States Mission to the UN Agencies in Rome.

It also operates missions to the United Nations in New York City and Geneva, the European Council, and non-member representation to the European Union, Chemical Weapons Nonproliferation Organization, the OSCE, NATO, World Trade Organization, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Other ministries, such as the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Health also have science departments.

North Korea also belongs to the Food and Agriculture Organization ; the International Civil Aviation Organization ; the International Postal Union ; the UN Conference on Trade and Development ; the ITU ; the UN Development Programme ; the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ; the World Health Organization ; the World Intellectual Property Organization ; the World Meteorological Organization ; the International Maritime Organization ; the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Non-Aligned Movement.

Miracles From Agriculture ( 1960 ) from the USDA presents then supermarkets as the showplaces of agriculture, discussing methods of improvement in the growing, handling, processing, and shipping of food products and the cooperative assistance offered by agricultural and food-processing research centers ; the film also hypothesizes that a nation grows according to the productivity of its agriculture.

In 1933, Kekkonen joined the Agrarian League ( later renamed the Centre Party ) and in the same year also became a civil servant at the Ministry of Agriculture.

Agriculture is also strong in Padthaway with onion, olives and seeds being grown along with sheep and cattle which are reared for sale.

Björn Engholm ( SPD ) succeeds Ertl as Minister of Food, Agriculture, and Forestry, remaining also Minister of Education and Science.

To prevent confusion, the United States Department of Agriculture requires sweet potatoes labeled as " yams " to also be labeled as " sweet potatoes ".

( See also: Agriculture in the prehistoric Southwest )

Agriculture and forest leaders are also trying to understand how the climate change legislation will affect what they do.

The legislation here is general environmental protection legislation, and may also apply to other units of the government, including the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture.

Agriculture and forestry is also the life line for multitudes of small villages which support majority of the population.

Carter also planned to transfer the education-related functions of the departments of Defense, Justice, Housing and Urban Development, and Agriculture, as well as a few other federal entities.

López Portillo also created the secretaries of Programming and Budgeting, Agriculture and Water Resources, Industrial Support, Fisheries and Human Settlements and Public Works.

It is also the home of the North Carolina Institute for Health and Safety in Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries with an administrative and several support buildings.

Agriculture, mainly field crops, orchards, and livestock ( particularly sheep ranching ,) is also important to the economy of the county.

He was also involved in the Gaelic League, the temperance movement and the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction ( DATI ).

One of the county's most famous attractions is the yearly Lexington Barbecue Festival, held in the city of Lexington during the month of October, bringing in over 100, 000 visitors from all over the southeastern U. S. There is also a yearly Davidson County Agriculture Fair held in September.

Dalhousie University ’ s Faculty of Agriculture sports teams are called the Dalhousie Rams, and participate in the Atlantic Collegiate Athletic Association and as members of the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association.

Later in 1943, the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt called a United Nations Conference on Food and Agriculture.

President Harding brought along with him to the territory the Secretary of Interior Hubert Work, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, and Secretary of Agriculture Henry C. Wallace, (" The Three Bears " as Herbert Hoover called themselves ) in order to cut the bureaucracy in their respected departmental jurisdictions of the territory.

The New Hampshire Legislature would not attempt to establish another university until the 1860s, when it created the land-grant forerunner of the University of New Hampshire, originally called the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts – in Hanover, associated with Dartmouth College.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ( FAO ) developed a supra-national classification, also called World Soil Classification, which offers useful generalizations about soils pedogenesis in relation to the interactions with the main soil-forming factors.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ( FAO ) called the summit in response to widespread under-nutrition and growing concern about the capacity of agriculture to meet future food needs.

Roughly adhering to the original plan of 1909, numerous colleges were established: Arts & Science ( 1909 ), Agriculture now called Agriculture and Bioresource ( 1912 ), Engineering ( 1912 ), Law ( 1913 ), Pharmacy now called Pharmacy & Nutrition ( 1914 ), Commerce now the N. Murray Edwards School of Business ( 1917 ), Medicine ( 1926 ), Education ( 1927 ), Home Economics ( 1928 ), Nursing ( 1938 ), Graduate Studies and Research ( 1946 ), Physical Education now called Kinesiology ( 1958 ), Veterinary Medicine ( 1964 ), Dentistry ( 1965 ), and School of Physical Therapy ( 1976 ).

Brook Farm, also called the Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and Education or the Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education, was a utopian experiment in communal living in the United States in the 1840s.

According to the Historical Text Archive on Revolution in the Land: Southern Agriculture in the 20th Century in a section called " The Changing Face of Sharecropping and Tenancy ":

Most of this knowledge was translated in 904 CE from Syriac sources into the book called " The Nabatean Agriculture " by Ibn Wahshiyya ; Maimonides considered it an accurate record of the beliefs of the Sabians, whose role as a pre-Judaic monotheistic movement he commented on at length.

Based upon a book called The Nabataean Agriculture which Maimonides translated, Maimonides ' Guide for the Perplexed describes the Sabians in quite some detail.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ( MAFF ) was a United Kingdom government department created by the Board of Agriculture Act 1889 and at that time called the Board of Agriculture, and then from 1903 the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, and from 1919 the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.

He was called to Peru by Simón Bolívar and became " Director for Public Education, Physical and Mathematical Sciences and Arts " and " Director of Mines, Agriculture and Public Roads " of Bolivia.

The German A. H. Maeterns, with the aid of the US Department of Agriculture, created a new project called American Farm on a large plot of land donated by the Queen Consort to promote modern agriculture.

A substitute for it would be a mix of unbleached white flour, wheat bran, and wheat germ in the ratios found in whole wheat, but according to an alleged ruling of the Department of Agriculture that reportedly occurred sometime prior to November 1919, such remixing or recombining of the grain-fraction streams from roller mills could not legally be called " Graham " flour.

Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the development of civilization.

He has published extensively on the social and environmental significance of agriculture and a number of volumes and papers on the philosophical significance of farming, notably The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental Ethics ( 1995 ) and The Agrarian Roots of Pragmatism ( 2000 ).

The Advances to Settlers Act of 1894 provided low-interest motgages, while the Agriculture Department disseminated information on the best farming methods.

Biodynamic agriculture, the first intentional form of organic farming, began in the 1920s when Rudolf Steiner gave a series of lectures since published as Agriculture.

Agriculture consists largely of subsistence farming and animal husbandry.

Agriculture, mostly subsistence rice farming, dominates the economy, employing an estimated 85 % of the population and producing 51 % of GDP.

Agriculture in Zimbabwe can be divided into two parts: industrialized farming of crops such as cotton, tobacco, coffee, peanuts and various fruits and subsistence farming with staple crops such as maize or wheat.

The Advances to Settlers Act of 1894 provided low-interest motgages, while the Agriculture Department disseminated information on the best farming methods.

Agriculture in the canton includes fruit growing, dairy farming and cattle breeding.

However the Agriculture Department of Thailand is seeking to farming more “ honorable and secure .”

The United States Department of Agriculture ( informally the Agriculture Department or USDA ) is the United States federal executive department responsible for developing and executing U. S. federal government policy on farming, agriculture, and food.

Organic agricultural methods are internationally regulated and legally enforced by many nations, based in large part on the standards set by the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements ( IFOAM ), an international umbrella organization for organic farming organizations established in 1972.

The following year he returned to the United States, speaking at three international conferences on natural farming in Washington state, San Francisco and at the Agriculture Department of the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Agriculture is important because of the fertile soil and moderate climate that exists in the Willamette Valley, making this valley one of the most productive farming areas in the nation.

Agriculture became the main source of income for residents in the hamlet, as the brickearth soil in the area made farming ideal, so Heathrow became part of the west Middlesex market gardening industry.

Until 2005, Künast served as the German Minister for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, known for increasing consumer protection, supporting organic farming, and expanding animal welfare.

* The Plantation Agriculture Museum, located on the Pulaski County side, displays artifacts from the area's history in large farming operations, particularly cotton cultivation.

Agriculture has become a highly technical industry and Christian County farmers realized the need for continuing education and technical training concerning implements, machinery, fertilizers, chemicals, seeds, and overall good farming practice.

Agriculture, including a 1940s and 1950s boom in chicken and egg farming, has all but disappeared.

Agriculture is a significant component of its economy: Slavonia contains 45 % of Croatia's agricultural land and accounts for a significant proportion of Croatia's livestock farming and production of permanent crops.

Agriculture is important, particularly cattle breeding in the mountains and dairy farming in the plains.

In Conservation Agriculture there are many examples that can be looked towards as a way of farming but at the same time conserving.