Sentences with phrase «cent less land»

The Impossible Burger reportedly requires roughly 95 per cent less land and 75 per cent less water than ground beef.

Not exact matches

Less than half of 1 per cent of Australia's agricultural land is owned by Chinese investors, while UK investors make up the largest proportion of overseas interest in Australia, according to a new report.

Defined as farmers with 50 hectares or less of land, smallholders produce 40 per cent of the US$ 66 billion industry's oil, but only 14.5 per cent of the world's sustainable palm oil.

As well as explaining that the production of meat — on its journey from farm to fork — is responsible for 15 per cent of the planet's harmful greenhouse gas emissions, it underlines that raising equivalent amounts of grain or vegetables for human consumption uses far less land, water and resources.

To put the figures into perspective, even if England's urban areas were expanded by ten per cent, this could be achieved by only using less than one per cent of the total land mass.

Across the ten least affordable cities in Britain including Oxford, London and Bristol, building on less than 5 per cent of green belt land in the ten least affordable UK cities would supply 1.4 million homes close to train stations.

So, if you land at Benin airport and you drive to the Government House, and then you drive back to the airport, you might have a very good impression about Benin on the state of roads; but if you take the pains to go outside the city, you will find out that the roads that have been done are less than three per cent.

First, less than 10 per cent of the world's land is more than 48 hours of ground - based travel from the nearest city.

But the amount of land space taken up by cities is actually relatively small compared with the number of people they shelter: satellite image composites show that urban sites cover only 2.8 per cent of the Earth's land; accordingly the UN estimates that about 3.3 billion people occupy an area less than half the size of Australia.

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