I met my husband, Alfred, way back in 1981 because at that time, there was an outfit called the Canada Farm Labour Pool.

From the Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada: Gilles Lavoie, Director General, Agricultural Industry Services Directorate; Market and Industry Services Branch; Howard Migie, Director General, Adaptation and Grain Policy Directorate, Policy Branch; Peter E. Fehr, Director, Ottawa Affairs, Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration.

35. Believes that the climate impact of agriculture can be considerably mitigated by means of improved education and training of people working in agriculture, better use of innovations stemming from research and development and improving the efficiency of agricultural production;

A host of other explanations have also been offered for the slow growth in agriculture production in Africa . These include political instability and conflict; limited financial systems, poor access to credit and high rates of interest and bank charges (32% in Nigeria ); and gender bias against women, who form the bulk of the agricultural labour force.

– having regard to the Presidency conclusions of the Vienna European Council of 11 and 12 December 1998, which called on the Commission 'to allow those Member States who so desire to experiment with reduced VAT rates on labour-intensive services which are not exposed to cross-border competition' in order to promote employment,

3. highlights the risk that economic and social pressures due to the necessary structural reforms necessary in applicant countries may cause people in those countries to associate enlargement with growing rural unemployment and poverty; suggests, therefore, to follow closely the developments in socio-economic fields and to intensify contacts with candidate farmers, so that appropriate rural development measures could be considered to save semi-subsistence farming and its welfare function, as well as to promote environmentally friendly agriculture production and income diversification according to the objectives of the Second Pillar of t ...[+++]he CAP; calls on the Commission and the Council to extend the Sapard programme to cover the decade after enlargement, in order to minimise the social upheaval of a continuing and significant reduction in the agricultural labour force;