Sentences with phrase «crops on degraded lands»
On state - and community - owned lands, carbon finance would be used to fund sustainable development initiatives, like planting crops on degraded lands and reforestation.
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They include: high levels of degraded soils; reductions in irrigation quotas to restore the health of the Murray - Darling system; the re-forestation of some agricultural land to meet emissions reductions targets; the impacts of peak oil, such as the diversion of food crops into feed - stock for biofuels; and the price and crop yield implications of peak phosphorous, given Australia's dependence on imported fertilisers.
That means using timber and crop residues or trying to grow high - yielding grasses or trees on truly marginal and degraded land, and that is the recommendation of these many reviews.
According to the paper, microalgae, which can be grown in salt water or produced on otherwise degraded land, can be used as livestock feed, freeing up land currently used for pasture and feed crops.
Many perennial bioenergy crops are prime candidates to grow on degraded land not suited to food production.