Sentences with phrase «arable land even»

Not exact matches

Even in China where land is vast, official figures in 2014 have indicated that more than 40 percent of arable land in China has already been degraded.

«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.»

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

East Antarctic ice sheet: Abrupt (geologic, but still shortish), absolutely catastrophic (even over centuries; 70 meters covers an awful lot of arable land and infrastructure, and there's no guarantee that the remaining dry land will be an Eden).

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.

Drought might be an even bigger problem than heat, with some of the world's most arable land turning quickly to desert.

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.