Sentences with phrase «arable farm land»

Or the greatest contiguous stretch of arable farm land in the world (which conveniently happens to be adjacent to those navigable rivers I mentioned.

... biodiversity can be greatly enhanced on solar farms compared to arable farm land, encouraging bumblebees and butterflies in particular to thrive.

Not exact matches

As urban sprawl encroaches on the world's arable land, and environmental disasters send food prices soaring, innovators are seeking to take agriculture off the farm.

The need to produce more agricultural products with less water and arable land will tempt a modernizing China to engage in crash programs of high tech farming that will prove radically unsustainable.

· Seaweed farming is one of the most environmentally friendly types of aquaculture: It uses no arable land, freshwater, chemical treatments or fertilizers.

OVER the past forty years, the world has lost nearly a third of its arable land — because of accelerated soil erosion due to farming and other activities.

Yet farming and ranching already exact a daunting toll on the environment: burn down rain forests to create more arable land, dump fertilizers onto fields that run off and choke life in rivers and oceans, emit volumes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, use up vast stores of freshwater for irrigation.

Furthermore, the arable land used for farming dropped by one quarter over the 56 - year period, and investment in heavy farm equipment and other capital expenditures decreased by 12 percent.

Jim Herder, a farmer near Sylvan Lake, Alta., buys and rents arable land for his farm production.

Abundant natural resources and arable land suggest that Pickering originated as a farming community until the Norman Conquest in the eleventh century when a castle and church were built, around which the town grew.

The Urubamba alluvial basin is an almost continuous zone of arable and pastoral farming land.

We identified as most promising measures: the promotion of organic inputs on arable land instead of grassland, the introduction of perennials (grasses, trees) on arable set - aside land for conservation or biofuel purposes, to promote organic farming, to raise the water table in farmed peatland, and — with restrictions — zero tillage or conservation tillage.

The natural variation that has led us out of the Little Ice Age has a bit of frosting on the cake by land use; and, part of that land use has resulted in a change in vegetation and soil CO2 loss so that we see a rise in CO2 and the CO2 continues to rise without a temperature accompaniment (piano player went to take a leak), as the land use has all but gobbled up most of the arable land North of 30N and we are starting to see low till farming and some soil conservation just beginning when the soil will again take up the CO2, and the GMO's will increase yields, then CO2 will start coming down on its own and we can go to bed listening to Ave Maria to address another global crisis to get the populous all scared begging governments to tell us much ado about... nothing.

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.

One paper I saw said the reason for this would be the slow migration of crops from hotter areas to the new arable land opened up by the warmer climate or just migration of farm land.

And without a demographic transition, a planet of 9 or 11 or even 14 billion people scraping a bare existence from the land is a planet in which virtually every plot of arable land will be converted to low - intensity farming.