As such, it has to be distinguished from agricultural land, which, according to Food and Agriculture Organization's ( FAO ) definition, additionally includes land under permanent crops as well as permanent pastures.

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 ).

Agriculture has the been a key industry since the 1870s.

Since conference and of the Food and Agriculture Organization's publication World Festival of Trees, and a resolution of the United Nations in 1954: " The Conference, recognising the need of arousing mass consciousness of the aesthetic, physical and economic value of trees, recommends a World Festival of Trees to be celebrated annually in each member country on a date suited to local conditions "; it has been adopted by the Netherlands.

According to United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization the term bean should include only species of Phaseolus ; however, a strict consensus definition has proven difficult because in the past, several species such as Vigna ( angularis ( azuki bean ), mungo ( black gram ), radiata ( mung bean ), aconitifolia ( moth bean )) were classified as Phaseolus and later reclassified.

Agriculture has been theorized to have become the dominant way of producing food since the Neolithic Revolution.

Agriculture, while sufficient to support the small early settler population, has always been limited by the scarcity of arable land.

The World War II-era Department of Agriculture film Hemp for Victory, encouraging the growing of hemp for war uses, has achieved a similar cult status.

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, China's per capita food availability and consumption have increased, and average per capita food availability has grown from less than 1700 kcal in 1960 to 2570 kcal per day in 1995.

A 2005 report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) estimates that although the Earth's total forest area continues to decrease at about 13 million hectares per year, the global rate of deforestation has recently been slowing.

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.

Agriculture, mainly in private hands, has been largely deregulated, with the exception of cotton and sugar production.

The U. S. Government has provided $ 37. 7 million in assistance through USAID and the U. S. Departments of Agriculture and Defense.

FAO has carried out projects in over 25 countries and inter-agency missions in nearly 60, scaled up its monitoring through the Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture, provided policy advice to governments while supporting their efforts to increase food production, and advocated for more investment in agriculture.

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.

Agriculture is presently of little importance in the economy but climate change in southern Greenland, the growing season averages about three weeks longer than a decade ago has enabled expanded production of existing crops.

This campaign is linked to the recognition of the detrimental environmental effects of meat production, which the United Nations ' Food and Agriculture Organization has established to represent nearly one-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions.

It has been identified as having " inspired some of the most important developments in human history including the invention of the wheel, the planting of the first cereal crops and the development of cursive script, Mathematics, Astronomy and Agriculture.

In consequence, the United States Department of Agriculture ( USDA ) has approved the use of low-level irradiation as an alternative treatment to pesticides for fruits and vegetables that are considered hosts to a number of insect pests, including fruit flies and seed weevils ; the U. S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has cleared among a number of other applications the treatment of hamburger patties to eliminate the residual risk of a contamination by a virulent E. coli.

" Agriculture Canada has developed a " flavour wheel " that details 91 unique flavours that can be present in maple syrup.

Agriculture throughout the region has been supplemented by nomadic pastoralism, where tent-dwelling nomads herded sheep and goats ( and later camels ) from the river pastures in the dry summer months, out into seasonal grazing lands on the desert fringe in the wet winter season.

Agriculture dominates the economy, but unequal land distribution has resulted in a large class of peasant farm laborers.

Agriculture has served as a strong foundation for Taiwan's economic miracle.

In 1929, Joseph Russell Smith took up the term as the subtitle for Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture, a book in which he summed up his long experience experimenting with fruits and nuts as crops for human food and animal feed.

In 1995, the U. S. Department of Agriculture and a pharmaceutical research firm received a patent on a technique to extract an antifungal agent from the neem tree ( Azadirachta indica ), which grows throughout India and Nepal ; Indian villagers have long understood the tree's medicinal value.

Agriculture has long been the primary economic activity in the county.

Agriculture has long been important, and until only decades ago the more marginal outfields in Upper Gjerstad were still utilized.

This was followed by The Triumph of Peace, a Masque occasioned by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ( 1749 ); a fragment, entitled Agriculture, of a long tedious poem in blank verse on Public Virtue ( 1753 ); The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green ( acted at Drury Lane 1739, printed 1741 ); and an ode, Melpomene ( 1751 ).

During his long career he served as Minister for Agriculture ( 1932 – 1947 ), Minister for Health and Social Welfare ( 1947 – 1948 and 1951 – 1954 ) and Minister for Finance ( 1957 – 1965 ).

He had a long ministerial career, serving as Assistant Minister of the Interior 1950 – 1951 ; Minister at the Council of State Chancellery 1951, and 1956 – 1957 ; Minister of Education 1953, 1954, 1956 – 1957, and 1968 – 1970 ; Minister for Foreign Affairs 1954 – 1956, 1957, and 1958 ; Deputy Prime Minister 1957, 1958, 1962 – 1963, 1968 – 1970, and 1977 – 1979 ; Minister of Agriculture 1961 – 1962, 1962 – 1963 ; Minister of Finance 1972 – 1975 ; and Minister of Agriculture and Forestry 1976 – 1977 and 1977 – 1979.

Agriculture was a mainstay of the local economy of Georgia, a typical agrarian country with long wine-making traditions.

Dean shows that the major Fair Deal initiative, the " Brannan Plan " proposed by Secretary of Agriculture Brannan, failed in Congress because Truman delayed too long in presenting it before Congress and it lost initiative and because he never consulted with top leaders in farm legislation.

In 1954 the parliamentary debate about the budget for the Department of Agriculture was postponed: the Minister was ice-skating the 200 kilometer long Elfstedentocht in the Dutch province of Friesland.

* Agriculture: Agriculture has long been of importance in the Dordogne area around Sarlat.

Agriculture and tourism have long been the most important industries in the area.

Agriculture has long been practiced on the fertile flooding meadows by the river.

Of the Discouragement of Agriculture: Chapter 2's long title is " Of the Discouragement of Agriculture in the Ancient State of Europe after the Fall of the Roman Empire ".

The town's official motto is " Progress with Pride ", but the town's weekly paper, the Oxbow Herald, has long included two other unofficial town mottoes on its masthead: " Queen of the Scenic Souris " ( a reference to the Souris River, near which Oxbow is situated ) and " Where Oil and Agriculture Meet " ( a reference to the town's two major industries.

Agriculture has long been important in Lom.

For a long time, Agriculture Canada had protected white German Shepherds from the many attempts by the German Shepherd Dog Club of Canada to have white dogs disqualified from the CKC conformation ring, as had long been the case in the USA.

To achieve these visions and aspirations, the department in consultation with our constituents at the grass roots level and other appropriate government agencies and offices, shall formulate and implement a medium and long term comprehensive Agriculture and Fishery Modernization Plan.

In addition, The Foundation for Deep Ecology had a long history as a generous grant-maker in categories such as Biodiversity & Wilderness, Ecological Agriculture, and Megatechnology & Economic Globalization, although in-house publishing is now its main focus.