Sentences with phrase «available land for agriculture»
As the population grows we need more land to grow crops to feed ourselves and that adds to climate change which in turn poisons our oceans with acid rain and reduces the available land for agriculture.
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He assured that the his administration will continue to build on the policies put in place by the previous administration to enhance rapid development in the sector, adding that so far, the government has energized the Agriculture Land Holding Authority (ALHA), to make more land readily available for Agricultural developmLand Holding Authority (ALHA), to make more land readily available for Agricultural developmland readily available for Agricultural development.
The project, which is sitting on a massive 167 hectares of land with additional available land for other projects, was copied from Songhai in Republic of Benin under the Agric - Yes initiative of the Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture.
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.
Linderman, whose nonpartisan organization focuses on supporting the interests of family farmers in a state where most available land is devoted to farming, said she's been concerned for some time that agriculture has not been part of the presidential discussion.
«This shows that the land available for agriculture was used more intensively for growing food,» conclude Dr. Klotz, Head of the Department of Community Ecology.
Not only does this limit the land available for use in agriculture, but in land that has been used for generations, the combination of irrigation and evaporation gradually leads to increasing soil salinity.
• Longer growing seasons and more land available for agriculture, two factors that will yield greater crop production.
Various cities, like Cienfuegos (Cuba), Piura (Peru) and Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) have made an inventory of the available vacant open land within the city (using methods like community mapping and / or GIS) and analysed its suitability for use in agriculture, which creates a good starting point for enhancing access, especially of the urban poor, to land for urban farming.
Legalising urban agriculture and formal recognition of agriculture as a formal urban landuse and identification of which tracts of land are available for urban agriculture and what types of agriculture are suitable for such a location are important steps in the creation of a facilitating and regulating policy framework on urban agriculture replacing the existing neglecting or restricting policies.
The earth is increasingly crowded with agriculture and infrastructure, and land may or may not be available for wine grapes.
The paper, written by Jaboury Ghazoul and Lian Pin Koh of ETH Zurich and myself in September 2009, posits that by increasing the opportunity cost of conversion of forest land for agriculture, REDD will potentially constrain the amount of land available to meet growing demand for food.