Sentences with phrase «arable land for»

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.

We have plenty of unused arable land for many years to come.

Other than possibly slightly higher sea levels, I see a lot of good coming from increased vegetative growth, and more arable land for vegetation to grow in.

# 18: «I see a lot of good coming from increased vegetative growth, and more arable land for vegetation to grow in.»

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

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Environmental water policies that show greater concern for bait fish than for food production, combined with years of drought, have strangled area farmers to the point that much of the arable land is returning to its natural semi-arid state.

As long as vast areas of arable land remained untilled, care for the land seemed sentimental.

It's better to have land that is both arable and that can be used for grazing,» he said.

Assarts were bits of land cleared from the forest for arable uses.

According to him, Niger has become the destination of choice for investment in the agricultural sector given its rich and vast arable land.

Yaro said LASUCO, a backward integration site for BUA Group's sugar subsidiary, had over 20,000 hectares of arable land, suitable for sugar cane and strategically located to serve the northern and southern markets of Nigeria.

While emphasizing that the south west holds the future of food security in Nigeria, Governor Ambode said the available massive arable and fertile land had placed the region on a sound footing to use agriculture not only to grow the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the region but also to ensure food availability for the country.

Ashanti region has vast arable lands that could be very suitable for making money and creating jobs from this tree.

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.»

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

«There will be a fierce fight for arable land.»

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.

However, the area suffers a high loss of habitat due to deforestation for more arable and pasture land.

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

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).

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.

The FRO2 gene is common to all plants, so boosting its expression in food crops or finding variants that thrive in poor soils could be important for increasing crop yields in the face of population growth and global warming's threats to arable land.

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

More than 40 percent of China's arable land is suffering from degradation, official news agency Xinhua said, reducing its capacity to produce food for the world's biggest population.

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.

These findings can also be illustrated in other aspects of resource use: the team found the highest rate of increase in the cultivation of arable land to be in the 1950s; the peak for human - made irrigation areas then followed in the 1970s, and the peak for nitrogen fertilisers was subsequently in the 1980s.

According to Mr. Charles Darwin, they give a kind of under tillage to the land, performing the same below ground that the spade does above for the garden, and the plow for arable soil.

Some other statistics: About half of the world's tropical forests have been cleared (FAO) Forests currently cover about 30 percent of the world's land mass (National Geographic) Forest loss contributes between 6 percent and 12 percent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions (Nature Geoscience) About 36 football fields worth of trees lost every minute (World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-RRB- Rain Forest Threats, Rain Forest Species More than half of Earth's rain forests have already been lost forever to the insatiable human demand for wood and arable land.

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.

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.

At the dawn of the 21 st century, with unprecedented population growth and its ensuing competing demands for water, arable land, housing, education, and economic development, spatial analysis has become more critical.

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).

The need is dire: Dependence on wood for cooking and heating has reduced the amount of forest cover from a healthy 25 percent at the beginning of the 1900s to less than 8 percent today, causing flooding, erosion, and landslides that have destroyed homes and arable land.

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

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.

Because the amount of arable land is limited and what is left is being lost to urbanization, salinization, and desertification, it no longer possible to simply open up more undeveloped land for cultivation to meet production needs.

Much research has been conducted to show that you can conserve services for humans (water, arable land, flood control, etc.), which help reduce poverty, and conserve biodiversity.

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 capaciFor 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 capacifor 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.

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.

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.

It is now clear that the federal corn ethanol mandate has driven up food prices, strained agricultural markets, increased competition for arable land and promoted conversion of uncultivated land to grow crops.

Many observers have warned that using arable land to produce crops for biofuels has reduced surfaces available to grow food.

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Arable land and potable water are not needed for synthetic organisms.

Very little of the arable land is irrigated, and local populations depend on monsoon rainfall for agriculture.

One example is improving yield on lands already deforested to produce crops, thereby preventing additional deforestation driven by increasing demand for arable land.

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