Sentences with phrase «agricultural lands account»

Agricultural lands account for 68.3 % of total soil losses, while forests account for less than 1 %.

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Over the last thousand years, rice has been the dominant crop in Bangladesh and it currently accounts for 77 % of agricultural land use.

It takes into account, for example, what sort of water has been used at all stages of the life cycle (eg natural rainfall over agricultural land, water from rivers, lakes and groundwater resources); the context of local water scarcity; and whether the water would otherwise be used for another activity of critical importance.

WCRP's models take into account greenhouse gas emissions and other natural and humanmade influences, but do not consider agricultural land use.

All these supports and promotion schemes for liquid biofuels should be scrapped, because of overwhelming scientific evidence that using land to produce energy crops delivers no climate benefits at all once agricultural emissions and land - use change are taken into account.

From an energetic stand point, the dual use principle of agrophotovoltaics is much more efficient than solely planting energy crops, accounting, after all, for 18 percent of agricultural land use in Germany.

That's why France's wine industry accounts for 3.7 percent of the country's total agricultural land, but utilises 20 percent of the country's pesticide expenditure.

Accounting for emissions from indirect land - use change pushes up abatement costs for agricultural biofuels to between # 215 and # 5,540 ($ 330 - 8,500) per tonne of CO2e depending on the feedstock used, says the report.

Pugh, T. A. M., A. Arneth, S. Olin, A. Ahlström, A. D. Bayer, K. K. Goldewijk, M. Lindeskog, and G. Schurgers (2015), Simulated carbon emissions from land - use change are substantially enhanced by accounting for agricultural management, Environmental Research Letters, 10 (12), 124008.

The G8 pledge to ensure that biofuel policies are compatible with food security comes in the wake of the leaked World Bank report that the push for biofuels accounts for 75 % of the food crisis by competing with food crops for agricultural land.

WCRP's models take into account greenhouse gas emissions and other natural and humanmade influences, but do not consider agricultural land use.

Agriculture accounts for 4 percent of the California economy according to Tom Tomich of UC Davis» Agricultural Sustainability Institute (agriculture also accounts for 8 percent of California energy use, 20 percent of California's land area and more than 40 percent of the state's fresh water use).

Organic farming, which currently accounts for only 1 % of global agricultural land, is lower yielding on average.

Globally, cotton is cultivated on 2.5 % of the world's agricultural land, with genetically modified cotton accounting for nearly half of all the cotton grown in the world.

Cotton occupies only 2.4 percent of agricultural land but accounts for 24 percent of global sales of insecticides and 11 percent of pesticides.

SS: The residential sector accounts for 65.2 percent of property transactions in the country, whereas commercial, industrial, institutional and agricultural properties, as well as development land, make up the rest.

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