Sentences with phrase «arable land as»

The food industry, for example, may end up fighting the biofuel industry for access to arable land as the world runs short of water, warns Peter Brabeck, Nestlé's chairman and chief executive.

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.

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.

At some point, we face catastrophic climate destabilization, lack of water and arable land to grow food as well as loss of oil energy to drive our civilizations.

He calls attention, as experts increasingly are doing, to the deterioration of the world's resources in arable land and forests and to the pollution of air and water by pesticides and waste products.

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Feeding an estimated 9.8 billion people by 2050 on a rapidly shrinking area of arable land can only be accomplished through a radical transformation that includes a wholesale reinvention of our global environmental priorities, as well as our social ones.

You're failing to consider the the confiscation of arable lands, the illegal outposts, as well as the issue of water rights.

Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday described the south west region as the next frontier of food security in Nigeria, revealing that an Agric Master Plan that would facilitate the effective use of the massive arable and fertile land in the region would soon be developed.

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.»

14 About 46,000 square miles of arable land turn to desert every year due to climate change and practices such as forest clear - cutting.

While recent policy interventions (such as the Good Agricultural and Environment Condition requirements of the CAP, and the EU Soil Thematic Strategy) have reduced the rate of soil loss in the EU by an average of 9.5 % overall, and by 20 % for arable lands, the study finds that four million hectares of EU croplands have unsustainable rates of soil loss (more than 5 tonnes per hectare per year).

As settlers moved west, in part because of the lack of arable land, the forests were given a shot at redemption.

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

Climate change is also likely to eat up more arable land, contributing to fears of food scarcity, as well as the loss of biodiversity, which is likely to occur at a faster rate.

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.

Moore warns that we are facing seemingly insurmountable problems: rising energy costs, escalating competition for arable land for agrofuels, the grow of invasive species, the herbicide / glyphosate - resistant superweeds effect, aquifer depletion, and end of cheap water as global warming melts glaciers, and the weakening effectiveness of fertilizers on yield growth.

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.

This situation is changing abruptly as wealthy foreign governments and international agribusiness firms snatch up large swaths of arable land in the upper Basin.

What will likely happen as a result of global warming is a migration of arable land northwards, but also mass desertification.

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.

For example, extreme storms often cause extreme soil erosion, and the substitution of pumped groundwater for lost precipitation can lead to a permanent loss of arable land due to salinization of soil and land subsidence, and (as indicated above) permanent loss of aquifer storage capacity.

The arguments interested me in high school from «Limits to Growth», but drew healthy skepticism as the predictions slowly failed about famines and arable land reductions.

So deep sea mining of rare earths for EV batteries, solar panels, bird killing windmills, pollution by heavy metals, reduction of arable land by renewables is of no concern to you as long as we have a CO2 TAX and produce useless sources of energy.

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.

- This later translates into one of the main drivers behind land - grabbing in other continents (usually in developing countries in Africa, but also Latin America and Asia) and huge extensions of arable land used to grow these new cash - crops as opposed to feeding the world.

And, at slightly warmer temperatures, arable land surface area in higher latitudes should increase, as should growing seasons.

Now we see that there is very strong evidence that the Amazon is not being newly deforested but is apparently being re-cleared, re-claimed as arable land.

Consider that a pretty hefty percentage of the world lives at subsistence and draw you own conclusions as to the effects of converting arable land into biofuel production.

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.

This is believable as higher temps would mean more arable land, more evaporation would mean more rainfall and we have seen over the last 50 years as CO2 has climbed that total biotic life on the planet has increased some 30 - 50 % according to NASA satellites measurements.

Bailey said that Brazil's biofuel programme would be less controversial than America's, as the price of sugarcane is not strongly correlated to the world prices of staple foods and Brazil had extensive arable land not being used to full capacity.