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PPFSGH03 Cooperative Extension Service Plant Pathology Fact Sheet Agriculture Natural Resources 149 Family Consumer Sciences 149 4HYouth Development 149 Community Economic Developme. ent of Environment, Food and Agriculture Flatworm i nformation sheet Introduction The ‘New Zealand’ flatworm, Arthurdendyus triangularus , was first discovered in the U.K. in 1963 and Dr. Helen Sheridan. Dr. Paul Murphy. School of Agriculture and Food Science,. University College Dublin. 1. Challenges facing Agriculture. FH2020 (national roadmap). Convention on Biodiversity 1992. SB 46. Senator Scott Jenkins. Why Should Utah Citizens be Concerned?. Self Reliance -Concerns about foreign food supplies. Desire to “Fresh” local production. Agriculture is a Utah Heritage - Core Values. Write this somewhere on your sheet. Socioeconomic—. Social or economic factors that affect the lives of average, working people in a country. (I think this gave a lot of you trouble on your FRQ’s). Structure of Agriculture. Since 2004: . less than . 1%. of the USA population were farmers; . 1920. : 30%; in . 1787. : 90. %. 17%. of the total labor force work in food-related industries. 23 million. -chemical evaluation of olive olive paste and olive oil obtained by a new partial . destoner. machine implemented in an industrial olive oil extraction plant . Prof. Alessandro LEONE. University of . Presented by Lynsey Such. Agriculture Historically . Hunting . and gathering . was the only mode of subsistence for 99% of human history. .. 200 years ago . 90 percent of the U.S. population lived on farms and produced their own food to . Agriculture. . is . deliberate modification of Earth’s surface through . cultivation of plants. and . rearing of animals. to obtain . sustenance. or . economic gain. .. Origins of agriculture cannot be documented with certainty, because it . Agriculture Unit 5 Agriculture Importance of Agriculture Everyone dependent on food Agriculture occupies more land area than any other econ activity Agriculture employs 45% - almost half of world’s labor (in Africa and Asia over 50% are farmers) BC Investment Agriculture Foundation: 20 Years of Impact. GROWING FORWARD 2:. BC AGRIFOOD & SEAFOOD. EXPORT PROGRAM. Assisting BC’s agriculture,. food and seafood sectors to. increase export sales and expand. (CASP Phase 2). GMS Working Group on Agriculture. Dr. . Thamana. . Lekprichakul. Program Coordinator/Deputy WGA Manager. ASEAN Feed & Rice Symposium, Bangkok, . 9 April 2014. Outline of the Presentatio. Olanrewaju Smith. International Trypanotolerance Centre, Banjul The Gambia. Natural resource management, food security, biofuels and sustainable agriculture. Raise some questions & discussion points . Prof. . . Amarendra. N. . Misra. Centre . for Life Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, Central University of Jharkhand, . India. 2. . The . higher education in agriculture and the inquiries of private sectors. G. . Cornelis. van Kooten. Professor and Canada Research Chair. Department of Economics. University of Victoria. and. Senior Research Fellow. Agricultural Economics Institute (LEI). The Hague, The Netherlands.