Sentences with phrase «agricultural land in these areas»

[The project called for the] abandonment of agricultural land in these areas.

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«The land was a frost pocket,» says Greenfield, «a low spot in an otherwise lovely agricultural area, and it would prove inhospitable to fine grape growing.»

In addition to human resources, they also have land, existing industries that can be partners or consultants for startups in the same areas, and agricultural sites that can be used for trials of agro-tech technologies.&raquIn addition to human resources, they also have land, existing industries that can be partners or consultants for startups in the same areas, and agricultural sites that can be used for trials of agro-tech technologies.&raquin the same areas, and agricultural sites that can be used for trials of agro-tech technologies.»

When it left the Central Valley, agricultural colonization became Cattle - based and extensive, occupying great areas of land in order to sustain a dispersed population.

The Brandt Commission found hope in the fact that vast irrigation schemes are being considered, especially in Africa, noting that such projects will enable the great rivers to become the means of transforming large areas of semiarid land into productive agricultural regions.

Nabhan points out that with water capacity near its limit for cities and rural agricultural areas, «food security in the Southwest depends upon the security of water supplies being delivered to irrigable land.

Even if 60 % of agriculture would convert to organic farming, concentrated feed were reduced by 50 % and food waste by 50 %, it would result in a food system with significantly decreased environmental impacts, including lower overall greenhouse gas emissions, and only a marginal increase in agricultural land area.

The world's food security would be ensured even with over 9 billion people in 2050, agricultural land area would not increase, greenhouse gas emissions would be lowered and the negative effects of today's intensive food systems, such as nitrogen surplus and high pesticide exposure, would be greatly reduced.

It places considerable emphasis on soil and plant research because of the strengths in these areas on the Waite and Roseworthy Campuses which house the Faculty of Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences of the University of Adelaide, the CSIRO Land & Water and the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI).

However unlike the conventional rubber, it could be harvested more cost - effectively, better cultivated and grown in Germany as a sustainable raw material — even on land areas not previously suited for agricultural crops.

He concludes that the demand pressures for increased cocoa exports, changing weather patterns and falling cocoa prices, has led to more monocropping — the agricultural practice of growing only one type of agricultural product in a large area of land, year after year — and less sustainable growing practices in recent years.

The advancing ice could also bury some agricultural lands and make the planet an overall colder place, «likely reducing the total amount of habitable area on Earth,» Haqq - Misra wrote in a paper laying out the thought experiment.

«On top of that, the area of salt - affected agricultural land is rapidly increasing and is predicted to double in the next 35 years.

Losses from conversions in the period 2008 to 2014, especially for agricultural and pasture land, averaged 71 square kilometres per year for all species in the study area.

That's because while the Persian Gulf area has a relatively small, relatively wealthy population and little agricultural land, the areas likely to be hardest hit in northern India, Bangladesh, and southern Pakistan are home to 1.5 billion people.

But land, water and fertilisers are already in short supply in many areas, and expansion of agricultural land will put further pressure on biodiversity, increase greenhouse gas emissions, and perhaps bring us closer to ecological tipping points that could strain the global life - support systems upon which agriculture itself depends.

Co-author Lambert noted that residential land use is often considered more innocuous than land use in cities or agricultural areas.

Taken together, these techniques promise to advance agricultural sustainability by reducing input use in multiple areas, from water and land to fertilizer, while also helping crops to adapt to climate change.

Some live in previously protected indigenous lands, some in areas that are right in the range of agricultural expansion.

The data showed that agricultural land more than doubled in area, from 1.3 million hectares in 2003 to 2.5 million hectares in 2013, within the 45 million - hectare study area.

For instance, very large forest areas are transformed into agricultural land in the Amazon region.

A medium deforestation rate, in which 53 percent of the forest is preserved (of the original 70 percent) and the remainder is used as agricultural land and for tea plantations, most closely approximates the ongoing expansion rate of agricultural areas in this Chinese region.

The team was able to demonstrate that the loss of species is related to changes in the hydrologic regime resulting from the conversion of forested areas to agricultural land.

High prices of agricultural inputs, rising population, typhoons, and decreasing land area planted to rice, have all played roles in setting the nation back in its rice - self sufficiency efforts.

Like equalization formulas in other states, the one in Kansas was designed to help poor, primarily urban districts, not the sprawling, land - rich agricultural areas of the state, like Beloit, where Mr. Bottom serves as superintendent of schools.

Agricultural opportunities and challenges in arid areas, including the distinction between aridity and infertility, irrigation access, salinization risk and land ownership

Titled Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountainous Areas in Southeast Asia, or the Uplands Program, the project aims to contribute through agricultural research to the conservation of natural resources and the improvement of living conditions of the rural population in the mountainous regions of Southeast Asia.

Dear Santosh, Agricultural land if is in a rural area in India it is not considered a Capital Asset, and therefore no capital gains are applicable on its sale.

Dear srivastava, Agricultural land in a rural area in India it is not considered a Capital Asset, and therefore no capital gains are applicable on its sale.

Volusia County allows residential households to have four cats or dogs older than 6 months, but zoning rules allow for an exception for an animal shelter in certain agricultural areas, including Grant's, which is considered forestry - resource land.

The South Valley is a broad countryside area, with forests, agricultural land and picturesque villages which have maintained a long gastronomical tradition of Cusco's emblematic dishes, such as the Pork Crackling (Chicharrón), in Saylla, and the Oven - baked Guinea Pig (Cuy), in Tipón.

Although about 1,998,230 acres or 38 % of the total land area are considered potentially suitable for agricultural use, only perhaps 10 to 15 % is in use in any one year.

Sir David Attenborough said this area also has the cleanest body of water in the world due to the lack of agricultural farming, industrial industries and lack of land clearing and degradation.

The farm was in a rich agricultural area of Dutch farmers, a strip of land on the south shore of Lake Ontario which was a fruit belt of apples, peaches, and cherries.

Given their potential cost - effectiveness, logged forests represent an opportunity to increase connectivity between protected areas and to enlarge existing parks, two goals that are becoming increasingly urgent in Southeast Asia as existing parks are illegally degraded or become increasingly isolated by conversion of adjacent areas to oil palm plantations and other agricultural lands.

In urban areas we find a correlation between rapid, patchy subsidence and industrial land use and elsewhere with agricultural land use.

doesn't that make for more crop failures, more expensive food, a shift to higher value cash crops (which may have lower food value or feed fewer but wealthier people), and a shift of agricultural areas away from the equator, resulting in costly changes in farm viability and land use?

While the study concentrates on agricultural land in the Hudson Valley, its methodology could be replicated in other areas of the region — Connecticut, New Jersey and Long Island — located within New York City's foodshed.

Along with their transformers, transmission lines, overhead distribution wires and substations these industrial wind turbines threaten people and the environment in serene, historic, rural communities, on prime agricultural land, migratory bird paths, close to sensitive wetlands, designated wildlife areas and pristine shorelines.

Over half of India's total agricultural land is unirrigated and is rain fed; climate change is projected to decrease crop yields in unirrigated areas by as much as 25 percent.

Among the most vulnerable areas in the UK is Lincolnshire, where swaths of agricultural land are likely to be lost to the sea.

The Midwest has a population of more than 61 million people (about 20 % of the national total) and generates a regional gross domestic product of more than $ 2.6 trillion (about 19 % of the national total).14 The Midwest is home to expansive agricultural lands, forests in the north, the Great Lakes, substantial industrial activity, and major urban areas, including eight of the nation's 50 most populous cities.

Dairy farmers in Illinois have the potential to earn tens of thousands of dollars a year by leasing land for community solar projects, but similar projects in other agricultural areas have faced steep opposition....

But other elements could potentially also contribute to a collapse: an accelerating extinction of animal and plant populations and species, which could lead to a loss of ecosystem services essential for human survival; land degradation and land - use change; a pole - to - pole spread of toxic compounds; ocean acidification and eutrophication (dead zones); worsening of some aspects of the epidemiological environment (factors that make human populations susceptible to infectious diseases); depletion of increasingly scarce resources [6,7], including especially groundwater, which is being overexploited in many key agricultural areas [8]; and resource wars [9].

Other ways of producing biofuels in the tropics — on degraded lands, former agricultural areas and so on — are clearly possible, and could have tremendous environmental, economic and social benefits.»

About 28 percent have been built on agricultural land and 15 percent have been built in developed areas.

In addition, twice the area of South America has been converted to «agricultural» land.

Increasing crop yield and decreasing or stabilising food and fibre demand could lead to a decrease in total agricultural land area in Europe (Rounsevell et al., 2005).

In areas where infrastructure is poor and carbon stores are high, REDD may offer attractive economic returns relative to conventional logging and agricultural use of forest land, especially for rural communities, which are often bypassed by industrial development of rainforests.

Projections made for winter wheat showed that climate change beyond 2070 may lead to a decrease in nitrate leaching from agricultural land over large parts of eastern Europe and some smaller areas in Spain, and an increase in the UK and in other parts of Europe (Olesen et al., 2007).