Except in the public sector, farming was a small, family operation with a high degree of equality of landholding but of uncertain efficiency.
While technology has carved into the markets, products, and identities of almost every other sector, farming and food defy easy solutions.
A study conducted in the USA between 1998 to 2005 reported that workers employed in two retail industry sectors (farm supply stores and hardware stores) had significantly elevated acute pesticide poisoning incidence rates [ 11].
It's the same as is happening to agency workers in the care sector, to farm and factory workers and those toiling away in service industries.
In the alternative sector, wind farms and solar panels now find it that much harder to compete against fossil fuels, given the new oil and gas discoveries.
Under reforms launched by Raúl Castro, 1.1m Cubans, more than a fifth of the labour force, work in a budding private sector of farms, co-operatives and small businesses.
The OECD has consistently argued against subsidies and other measures that distort trade, both in the farm sector and in other sectors.
But it could also result in more global competition for highly protected domestic sectors, like farming.
Though manufacturers have been laying off workers, sectors like farming and care for the elderly still face shortages.
A team of veterinarians collected cloacal and oropharyngeal swab samples from 11,452 birds from 4 poultry production sectors: commercial farms, backyard flocks, live-bird markets, and abattoirs.
