The phrase "activities in the former" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to activities related to a previously mentioned subject or context, often in contrast to a subsequent one.
Example: "The report highlights the activities in the former, which were crucial for the project's success."
Alternatives: "activities in the previous" or "activities in the earlier".
However, it is significant to mention that development of non-farm activities should complement the effort to develop agriculture, since activities in the former depend directly or indirectly on the later.
For example, dividends from successful ventures have helped the Aga Khan network expand its activities in the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan, where almost one million Ismailis are being exposed to Western ways for the first time.
The Central Intelligence Agency says there is so much nuclear black market activity in the former Soviet Union that the C.I.A. cannot rule out the possibility that Iran has acquired enough fissile material for a nuclear bomb.
You can still catch a sense of that activity in the former whaling town of New Bedford, and especially in the show "William Bradford: Sailing Ships and Arctic Seas" at the New Bedford Whaling Museum.
Mr. Milosevic's handover concludes a week of intense activity in the former insurance building on the outskirts of the The Hague where some 1,200 people work at the tribunal's headquarters.
In general, greater topographic expression associated with faults occurring in extended crust relative to non-extended crust suggests a higher rate of seismic activity in the former setting, consistent with observations worldwide.
The account of emissions in the base case scenario estimated for a typical summertime polluted day of the year 2004 reflects that in Barcelona 86% of primary pollutants come from on-road traffic compared to 93% in Madrid, because of the heavier industrial activity in the former.
Investigations of immunophenotypes also provide insights into subtype differences: adaptive immunity seems to have a prominent role in both polyarticular and oligoarticular JIA, and the more-limited arthritis observed in persistent oligoarticular JIA as compared with extended oligoarticular JIA may reflect more-potent immunoregulatory T-cell activity in the former.
Even though similar GadB proteins were expressed in BL21 DE3)/pET20b-torA-gadB and BL21 DE3)/pET20b-pelB-gadB, total GadB activity in the former was much higher than in the latter.
