Under the agreement, the government commits to development programmes and addressing gross inequalities in the country's long-neglected rural sector.
Although New Zealand is notable for the strength of its rural sector, the great majority of people live in cities.
"For so long there has been a lack of government priority to the rural sector," said Sanchez.
This hails from Mao's era, when China's rural sector was punitively taxed to finance the development of heavy industry.
Government enterprise also promoted the rural sector by means of soil improvement with trace elements and through new settlement schemes.
Woods said that they had seen improvements in the rural sector across the continent, as well as improvements in women's empowerment, if not in their economic empowerment.
At the September 1953 Central Committee plenum, at which Khrushchev became first secretary of the party, he laid bare the deficiencies of the rural sector.
Change in the rural sector has been limited by an unfavourable climate, periodic droughts since the late 1960s, and low levels of technology.
Given the economic situation of the country, it was more important to maintain the industry, which is a large source of employment, especially in areas like Mexico's rural sector, where there are no other sources of employment".
What can the government do about the farming crisis and the endless and linked cycles of animal and human disease, the decline of the rural sector, environmental degradation, problems with animal welfare and the massive power of supermarkets?
The ability of the government to deliver promised new development programmes, address gross inequalities in the country's long-neglected rural sector and vanquish the rightwing narcotics gangs is also in doubt.
