Sentences with phrase «arable land changes»

Conversion to arable land changes the hydrological regime In the present study, the cause for the decrease in species diversity is the changing hydrological regime resulting from the conversion of forest to arable land.

Not exact matches

«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»

long cost / benefit analysis, which not only include loss of arable land but rather shifting it further towards pools (in my country, unless there is an awful change in sea currents, one could actually expect longer vegetation season)

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.

Two of the main threats are the deforestation for arable land and climate change.

Saving chocolate Because the threats to cocoa production come from pests, disease, climate change and poverty, work must be done on all these issues to raise yields without tearing down rain forests to gain arable land.

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.

Our planet is expected to host an extra two billion people by 2050, but the amount of arable land we've got to work with won't be changing all that much.

The very best arable land here, which might be desperately needed in any kind of severe societal changes, would be in the surf given the extreme predictions for sea - rise in the next 50 years, and under constant threat given the milder end of the predictions (2 - 5 ft sea - rise).

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

Two of the main threats are the deforestation for arable land and climate change.

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.

Climate change impacts that intensify competition for increasingly scarce resources like freshwater and arable land, especially in the context of population growth, are areas of concern.

Right now the increase is happening * extremely rapidly *, and it will change sea levels, weather conditions, and the availability of arable land.

With climate change leading to further decreases in already scarce resources like arable land and water, poor populations are going to be pushed further to, or even over, the edge.

«Climate change of that scale will cause enormous resource wars, over water, arable land, and massive population displacements... We're not talking about 10,000 people.

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.