Sentences with phrase «clearing land for agriculture»

The burning of fossil fuels is the main CO2 contributor to the atmosphere, followed by clearing land for agriculture.

Whether it is the sprawl of deserts or the loss of tropical forests as the world's poor cut trees for firewood and clear land for agriculture, or the ineluctable warming of the planet as vehicles and factories deposit millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, «economic pressures lie behind them all» (Tolba 1991, p. 10).

Or fires set to clear land for agriculture can get out of hand, like they've done in Indonesia: Over the last few decades, the country has drained many of its peatlands to grow oil palms and other crops.

Most deforestation is done to provide cleared land for agriculture, but the cutting down of trees and the planting of crops releases large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which adds to global warming, the researchers said.

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Because of the clearing of pasture and forest lands for agriculture.

The Government claims that the «proposed amendments will illustrate a clear difference between extensive and intensive agriculture land uses, making it easier for industry and applicants.»

This administration has broken the jinx of fertilizer shortage and its high cost and has put land clearing for agriculture on a priority.

According to Angbazo, the army will cooperate with state governments and ministries of agriculture to assist in land clearing for planting during the planting season.

Draining the land plus «slash and burn» techniques to clear areas for agriculture are the main reasons that tropical peatlands are catching fire, says Alexander Cobb, an environmental scientist at the Singapore - MIT Alliance for Research and Technology.

Think land clearing for agriculture to feed a growing population of 6.8 billion people.

As a result of this, the countryside developed into predominantly dense forest that was first cleared when humans began to use the land for agriculture,» explains Professor Jens - Christian Svenning.

By displacing agriculture for food — and causing more land clearing — biofuels are bad for hungry people and the environment

Much of the land was cleared for agriculture — mostly orchards and dairy and wheat farms — in the early 1800s.

The majority of these land - use change emissions come from deforestation in developing countries, where forests are being cleared for agriculture and timber.

«A lack of action would result in massive increases in agriculture's environmental impacts including the clearing of 200 to 1,000 million hectares of land for agricultural use, an approximately three-fold increase in fertiliser and pesticide applications, an 80 % increase in agricultural GHG emissions and a rapid rise in the prevalence of diet - related diseases such as obesity and diabetes.»

Under Brazil's Forest Code, for example, landowners in the Amazon can only deforest 20 % of their land, while those in the Cerrado can only clear 35 % for agriculture.

Nearly 60,000 square kilometers have been cleared for agriculture in the Cerrado since 2003, and about a fifth of that land is being used for soy.

Houghton's method of reconstructing Land - Use Based Net Flux of Carbon appears arbitrary and susceptible to bias; i.e. «Rates of land - use change, including clearing for agriculture and harvest of wood, were reconstructed from statistical and historic documents for 9 world regions and used, along with the per ha [hectare] changes in vegetation and soil that result from land management, to calculate the annual flux of carbon between land and atmosphere.&raLand - Use Based Net Flux of Carbon appears arbitrary and susceptible to bias; i.e. «Rates of land - use change, including clearing for agriculture and harvest of wood, were reconstructed from statistical and historic documents for 9 world regions and used, along with the per ha [hectare] changes in vegetation and soil that result from land management, to calculate the annual flux of carbon between land and atmosphere.&raland - use change, including clearing for agriculture and harvest of wood, were reconstructed from statistical and historic documents for 9 world regions and used, along with the per ha [hectare] changes in vegetation and soil that result from land management, to calculate the annual flux of carbon between land and atmosphere.&raland management, to calculate the annual flux of carbon between land and atmosphere.&raland and atmosphere.»

While only a fraction of this cultivation currently occurs in the Amazon rainforest, production in neighboring areas like the cerrado grassland helps drive deforestation by displacing small farmers and cattle producers, who then clear rainforest land for subsistence agriculture and pasture.

Then, the cleared land is used for agriculture, most often cattle grazing.

Land and forest fires are an annual occurrence throughout Indonesia, in large part to clear forests for agriculture.

Demand - side solutions avoid emissions from land clearing for agriculture and provide additional emissions reductions as well.

They would deny any role from solar activity, urban heat island effects, land use changes i.e. wooded areas cleared for agriculture, aerosols, or natural variability.

It is land that in the past was cleared and used for agriculture, speculatively thought to be a sort of ancient perma - culture, and for the building of extensive towns and cities.

An expert on climate impacts on agriculture and land - use, Müller found while scoping the report for GDI that there was a mistaken assumption by development experts that many of the current uncertainties in predicting climate change will soon clear up.

Enviva responds that its operations are in reality protecting swamp forests, because if they weren't harvested, the land would be cleared and drained for agriculture.

• Land Use, Land - Use Change, and Forestry (17 % of 2004 global greenhouse gas emissions)-- Greenhouse gas emissions from this sector primarily include carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from deforestation, land clearing for agriculture, and fires or decay of peat soLand Use, Land - Use Change, and Forestry (17 % of 2004 global greenhouse gas emissions)-- Greenhouse gas emissions from this sector primarily include carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from deforestation, land clearing for agriculture, and fires or decay of peat soLand - Use Change, and Forestry (17 % of 2004 global greenhouse gas emissions)-- Greenhouse gas emissions from this sector primarily include carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from deforestation, land clearing for agriculture, and fires or decay of peat soland clearing for agriculture, and fires or decay of peat soils.

Indeed Tim if you want to go to catchment modification theories — well tree clearing for agriculture and grazing ought be giving us more runoff in one respect but perhaps changes in land surface feedbacks from land development may have also made a contribution to a warmer drier climate as this preliminary research shows.