Sentences with phrase «arable land»

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.

However, pressures to increase the amount of arable land for food and fuel could offset the reduction, unless more sustainable land management practices are applied.

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.

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

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.

Much of the country lies within the Sahara Desert but the coastal areas have a Mediterranean climate with arable land in the plateaus.

This could mean less fish in the sea for food and less arable land for crops, as well as many more conflicts in the world to control dwindling resources.

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.

Another swindle concerns the amount of arable land where such schemes could possibly be carried out.

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.

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.

By increasing the amount of available arable land, it will be easier to agree on how to divide it.

``... 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.....»

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

[2] This is equivalent to roughly 2.6 % of global arable land [3] in 61 countries.

«We're in a fairly volatile time from a macroeconomic perspective with Europe, but when you really look at our industry and the population increasing while arable land is decreasing, we ultimately think that over the medium term there are lots of opportunities.»

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.

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.

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

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-...]

Argentina is sparsely populated and resource rich — producing soybeans, wheat, wine, and, of course, beef — and has more arable land per person than all but five nations.

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

Our agricultural methods since neolithic times have rendered barren half of the then arable land on the earth.

In contrast to these huge organic animal production properties, smallholdings characterize organic arable lands (with few exceptions).

«We can encourage local government to produce something that is exportable because we have arable lands everywhere.

It is said that Africa holds up to 15 % reserves of the worlds arable lands.

For a relentlessly growing population, the per capita arable land was shrinking toward its limit.

Feeding that population will require more arable land even as swelling oceans consume fertile coastal zones and river deltas, driving people to seek new places to dwell.

There is not enough arable land to meet the growing global population's food demands; new solutions are desperately needed.

His excellent chapter on that continent's problems points out that only 32 per cent of potentially arable land is actually used at present.

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.