Sentences with word «arable»

New farmland is being developed in South America, rising global temperatures should increase the area of arable land in north America and northern Europe and improved governance in Africa is leading to increased food production there.

What I remember hearing is that they are both un (der) educated about the ecological value of the forest, and they are facing a host of other economic pressures (loss of arable land for farming, declining crops, massive depopulation of the region).

Moreover, the global demand for food (especially animal protein) will increase in coming years, putting pressure for more arable land on the Amazon, seen as one of the last frontiers for industrial agriculture worldwide.

David Powell of the government's Central Science Laboratory said that 19 dead spiders have so far been found in traps laid by researchers on arable land in Boxworth, Cambridgeshire.

In the UK, Mike Adams, project leader at the Plant Pathology Department at the Institute of Arable Crops Research, set up a successful collaboration the Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Hangzhou, China, to fight mosaic viruses in wheat.

With regard to pollinators, which greatly benefit from a richness of flowers, the fact that flowering weeds are more diverse and more abundant in organic arable fields and in organic grassland compared to conventional fields, where only few species and numbers were found, is particularly important.

Even if you don't burn corn, biomass must use arable land, monoculturally.

Earthworms differentially modify the microbiome of arable soils varying in residue management — Xin Gong — Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Many endangered or rare species which are enhanced by semi-natural habitats and field margins were more abundant in organic arable fields than in the integrated managed fields.

Self - defense militias and civil defense forces representing agricultural communities in rural regions, may protect their communities against raiders and expand their control into other areas with arable land and food resources.

Vertical farming solutions can address challenges of relentless urbanisation such as encroachment of arable farmlands as well as problems associated with traditional farming e.g. high carbon and water footprint, environmental damage due to run - offs, and so on.

At the conclusion of their book, For the Common Good, Herman Daly and John B. Cobb Jr. find hope in thinking that «on a hotter planet, with lost deltas and shrunken coastlines, under a more dangerous sun, with less arable land, more people, fewer species of living things, a legacy of poisonous wastes, and much beauty irrevocably lost, there will still be the possibility that our children's children will learn at last to live as a community among communities.»

The following two years were spent farming a 2000 acre arable farm in Cambridgeshire.

Artificial photosynthesis, once achieved and scaled up, could be significantly more efficient than biofuel production processes and would not require arable land, agricultural feedstock, or substantial inputs of energy or water.

After all, the crisis was sparked, at least in part, by a decline in rainfall over the past 30 years just as the region's population doubled, pitting wandering pastoralists against settled farmers for newly scarce resources, such as arable land.

The southwest possesses many orchards and vineyards, while arable crops are grown throughout the region.

The annual loss of 75 billon tons of soil from arable land leads a missing opportunity for economic benefits of USD 400 billion per year globally

You are unable to demonstrate based on empirical data that these temperatures will be harmful — and there are some indications that a slightly warmer temperature (especially in the higher latitudes, where GH warming is supposed to oiccur) will increase arable land surface across N. America, and Eurasia, lengthen growing seasons and result in higher overall crop yields.

Rice - produced on 163m hectares, around 12 % of the global arable area - has one of the greatest plant carbon footprints because it produces a lot of methane.

We have plenty of unused arable land for many years to come.

According to the report, with little arable land and scarce water supplies, the region is one of the top food importers in the world.

Reducing food losses & food waste (FLW) is a key global challenge to ensure sufficient and healthy food into the future, and to use available arable land as efficiently as possible.

William Martin, Chairman of NFU Sugar, says: «The dismantlement of the EU Sugar regime and Brexit will present opportunities for arable farmers in the beet growing areas of the UK, but the real opportunities will come from beet growers and British Sugar working in partnership to maximize the returns from the market place in a new commercial environment.»

We have decided to invest in local sugar production in Niger because of the vast arable land available in the state,» he said.

A genetically modified strain of common gut bacteria may lead to a new technology for making biofuels that does not compete with food crops for arable acreage

The drainage of moors, which has been practiced for centuries so as to gain arable land for farming and livestock, is in this respect a big ecological problem.

With a population of 1.3 billion, China is under immense pressure to convert suitable areas into arable land in order to ensure a continued food supply for its people.

In Argentina, for instance, increasing precipitation since about 1960 has shifted rainfall isolines to the West around the core agricultural prairies; this process added some 4 million hectares of agricultural land (for crops or grazing) and turned 10 million hectares into additional arable land.

``... Either the world will continue to heat up, or a complex series of climate changes could tip us over into a sudden new ice age — one so severe, suggests Peter Schwartz, co-founder of the Global Business Network consultancy, that the planet's remaining arable land would only be able to support a mere two billion people.....»

«There are only so many arable acres globally,» says Joseph Regan, managing partner at Guelph, Ont., VC firm Bioenterprise Capital.

By one calculation, global food production must increase 70 % by mid-century to accommodate Earth's rising population — requiring humanity to scare up new arable land equivalent in size to Brazil.

Aside destroying arable lands, operators have also succeeded in polluting virtually all water bodies in their catchment areas and beyond.

According to the commander, vast expanse of fertile arable land in the state had been completely taken over by cannabis cultivators.

While emphasizing that the south west holds the future of food security in Nigeria, Governor Ambode said the available massive arable and fertile land had placed the region on a sound footing to use agriculture not only to grow the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the region but also to ensure food availability for the country.

The amount of crops produced by the setup in the desert of Qatar is comparable to commercial farms in more arable regions.

With less than 2 % of European arable land currently used to grow grain legumes, Reckling and co-workers created a model to determine the effects of integrating legumes into cropping systems.

What about Fern Arable?

Prolonged winters, advancing glaciers, colder summers, more frequent storms and extended cloudiness reduced arable land, shortened growing seasons, rotted grain in wet fields, and brought -LSB-...]

In 1960, there was enough land to sustain the world population on a modest European diet, around 0.5 ha of arable cropland per capita.

Also, there isn't much arable land anymore for cotton fields, as we also have to produce food for a growing population.»

Switzerland lacks arable soil, while Canada is one of the world's breadbaskets.