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- Food and Agriculture Organization
Food and Agriculture Organization
- California Agricultural Production and Irrigated Water Use
USGS estimates water use for agricultural irrigation in California at 25 8 million acre-feet (MAF), accounting for 61% of USGS’s estimates of total withdrawals DWR estimates water use withdrawals for agricultural irrigation at 33 MAF, or about 41% of total use Both of these estimates are based on available data for 2010
- (PDF) Agriculture in Zimbabwe - ResearchGate
95 per cent of all food and beverages are locally produced and agriculture accounts for 30 per cent of formal sector employment and over 40 per cent of total national exports
- UNLOCKING AFRICA’S AGRICULTURAL - World Bank
agricultural sector is key to achieving a transformational impact The agricultural economy employs 65–70 percent of Africa’s labor force and typically accounts for 30–40 percent of GDP More than 70 percent of the continent’s poor live in rural areas, and agriculture is their most important economic activity
- (PDF) Large variations in global irrigation withdrawals . . .
An assessment of the human impact on the global water cycle requires estimating the volume of water withdrawn for irrigated agriculture A key parameter in this calculation is the irrigation
- Agriculture in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia
Agriculture in the United Kingdom uses 70% of the country's land area, employs 1% of its workforce (462,000 people) and contributes 0 5% of its gross value added (£13 7 billion) The UK currently produces about 54% of its domestic food consumption [1] Agricultural activity occurs in most rural locations
- Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical . . .
Agriculture-driven deforestation without expansion of agricultural production: This is defined as deforestation occurring in landscapes where agriculture is the dominant driver of forest loss but does not result in recorded, productive, and actively managed agricultural land This can be due to several mechanisms and is distinct from forest
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