Statistics have been recognized as a matter of strategic importance in the Congo and in Ruanda-Urundi during the post-war years in connection with long-term economic and social programs.

From an economic point of view, the order Asparagales is second in importance within the monocots to the order Poales ( which includes grasses and cereals ).

Many species in the iris family have a great economic importance in ornamental horticulture and the cut flower industry, especially Gladiolus, Freesia, Sparaxis, Iris, Tigridia ( tiger lily ), Ixia ( corn lily ), Romulea, Neomarica, Moraea ( butterfly lily ), Nemastylis, Belamcanda, Sisyrinchium ( blue-eyed grass ), Crocosmia and Trimezia.

The subfamily is of considerable economic importance, being grown as vegetables and seasoning, medicinal plants and ornamentals.

The main scholarly outlet has been the journal Annales d ' Histoire Economique et Sociale (" Annals of economic and social history "), founded in 1929 by Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch, which broke radically with traditional historiography by insisting on the importance of taking all levels of society into consideration and emphasized the collective nature of mentalities.

The plant is of great economic importance, being harvested for its fibre, once generally called Manila hemp, extracted from the trunk or pseudostem.

As the Montevideo Treaty is a " framework treaty ", by subscribing to it, the governments of the member countries authorize their representatives to legislate through agreements on the economic issues of greatest importance to each country.

Many species are of economic importance, mostly as sources of food acquired through hunting or farming.

Barge and canal systems were nonetheless of great, perhaps even primary, economic importance until after World War I in Europe, particularly in the more developed nations of the Low Countries, France, Germany, Poland, and especially Great Britain which more or less made the system characteristically its own.

The Carboniferous coal beds provided much of the fuel for power generation during the Industrial Revolution and are still of great economic importance.

The resultant stagnation of economic growth was particularly pronounced in Cuba because of its great strategic importance in the Caribbean, and the stranglehold that Spain kept on it as a result.

The changing economic and social conditions of the 19th led to a division between neo-classical and social liberals who, while agreeing on the importance of individual liberty, differed on the role of the state.

It now has little economic importance.

Due to economic downturn Golden State was forced to sell their entire art collection to ward off its mounting debts and as of spring 2011 the National Museum of African American History and Culture had offered $ 750, 000 to purchase the artworks which led to a controversy regarding the importance of the artworks which have been estimated to be worth at least $ 5 million.

Stalin's emphasis on the importance of political and economic work led to another wave of reorganisation of the Central Committee departments in the late-1930s and 1940s.

The importance of comparative law has increased enormously in the present age of internationalism, economic globalisation and democratisation.

The novel has been variously read as an allegory for the development of civilisation, as a manifesto of economic individualism and as an expression of European colonial desires but it also shows the importance of repentance and illustrates the strength of Defoe's religious convictions.

Recent study of the determinants of aggregate economic growth have stressed the importance of fundamental economic institutions and the role of cognitive skills.

In the modern world, economic growth and the spread of democracy have raised the value of education and increased the importance of ensuring that all children and adults have access to high quality and effective education.

The first prominent plan to develop Afghanistan's economy in modern times was the Helmand Valley Authority project, modelled on the Tennessee Valley Authority in the United States, which was expected to be of primary economic importance.

In a study of the use of econometrics in major economics journals, McCloskey concluded that economists report p values ( following the Fisherian tradition of tests of significance of point null-hypotheses ), neglecting concerns of type II errors ; economists fail to report estimates of the size of effects ( apart from statistical significance ) and to discuss their economic importance.

Some of the territory's exclusive economic zone is of great importance for fishing.

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In western Europe and North America, where the level of economic development is higher, grains and other seed products furnish less than one-third of the food consumed.

Because of its importance, a seed tree should be carefully chosen based upon both economic and biological factors.

The main economic activity in this constituency is farming and related work like gardening, seed production, and firewood collection ; 90 % of the area consists of commercial farms.

The edible seeds, pine nuts, are extensively collected throughout its range ; in many areas, the seed harvest rights are owned by Native American tribes, for whom the species is of immense cultural and economic importance.

The edible seeds, pine nuts, are collected throughout its range ; in many areas, the seed harvest rights are owned by Native American tribes, for whom the species is of immense cultural and economic importance.

Kino was important in the economic growth of area, working with the already agricultural indigenous native peoples and introducing them to European seed, fruits, herbs and grains.

This is a relevant factor for the economic lifetime of a seed orchard.

Concerning brood size, the most economic use of maternal resources is achieved by packing as many seeds as possible in one fruit, i. e., minimizing the cost of packing per seed.

The United Nations Security Council approved Resolution 1483 on May 22, 2003, ending economic sanctions against Iraq while clearing a path for the transfer of over $ 1 billion from the Oil-for-Food program as seed money for establishment of the development fund.

During epidemics in the 1990s, Stewart's wilt was a significant economic issue for the corn seed industry because of the logistics of trading and exchange of large volumes of field corn seed throughout the world.

Critics have objected to GMOs on several grounds, including tampering with nature, ecological concerns, economic concerns raised by the fact these organisms are often subject to intellectual property law, whether food produced from GMOs should be banned or labelled, whether such food is safe, and whether GM crops are useful to address the world's food needs.

Critics have objected to GM crops per se on several grounds, including ecological concerns, and economic concerns raised by the fact these organisms are subject to intellectual property law.

On the other hand, they see significant economic potential for nontraditional crops, if they are handled properly.

During the period 1790-1815 Sweden experienced two parallel economic movements: an agricultural revolution with larger agricultural estates, new crops and farming tools and a commercialisation of farming, and a protoindustrialisation, with small industries being established in the countryside and with workers switching between agricultural work in the summer season and industrial production in the winter season.

Pressures of overpopulation and the prospects of cash crops, already in evidence by 1945, made this subsistence economic system increasingly obsolete and accelerated a movement to commercial agriculture and emigration to cities.

The third event was land colonization, which resulted from the availability of land, the existence of economic opportunity, the increased price of crops, and the newly gained accessibility of the eastern border region.

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Traditional economic activities in San Marino were food crops, sheep farming, and stone quarrying.

Several factors are currently slowing the rate of global expansion of wheat production: population growth rates are falling while wheat yields continue to rise, and the better economic profitability of other crops such as soybeans and maize, linked with investment in modern genetic technologies, has promoted shifts to other crops.

The NERICA have appeared in The New York Times ( October 10, 2007 ) and International Herald Tribune ( October 9, 2007 ), trumpeted as miracle crops that will dramatically increase rice yield in Africa and enable an economic resurgence.

The economic value of the Caribbean islands to France was greater than that of Canada because of their rich sugar crops, and they were easier to defend.

In the fifty years after Codrington established his initial plantation, the sugar industry became so profitable that many farmers replaced other crops with sugar, making it the economic backbone of the islands.

The measure of wealth at this time began to have less to do with wielding urban civil authority and more to do with controlling large agricultural estates in rural regions, since this guaranteed access to the only economic resource of real value — agricultural land and the crops it produced.

Romesh Chunder Dutt argued as early as 1900, and present-day scholars such as Amartya Sen agree, that some historic famines were a product of both uneven rainfall and British economic and administrative policies, which since 1857 had led to the seizure and conversion of local farmland to foreign-owned plantations, restrictions on internal trade, heavy taxation of Indian citizens to support British expeditions in Afghanistan ( see The Second Anglo-Afghan War ), inflationary measures that increased the price of food, and substantial exports of staple crops from India to Britain.

The economic effects persisted, in part, because of farmers ' failure to switch to more appropriate crops for highly eroded areas.

The majority of Fukushima's agricultural economic output is from planting crops.

This has made agriculture an important economic sector with various vegetable and fruit crops as well as cattle breeding, making Naxos the most self-sufficient island in the Cyclades.

The economic loss due to the loss of crops / food can be reduced with the use of the control species.

The agricultural policy favoring grain production at the expense of industrial and cash crops intensified economic hardships in the province.

This partnership between the Brotherhood and the government stems from the French colonial administrators, who had viewed the production of groundnuts by the Mourides as a means of economic advantage through the increasing production of crops for export.

Facing economic ruin, the nearly bankrupt area farmers were forced to diversify, planting peanuts and other crops in an effort to lessen the damage and recoup some of the losses inflicted upon them by the invading insect.

These products contributed to rural economic improvement, by offering alternative crops to cotton that were beneficial for the farmers and for the land.

Cotton was the number one crop for a long time until 1921 when the boll weevil appeared quickly destroying crops and placing the town in to an economic depression which also caused the town to lose its charter.