Sentences with phrase «depletion of agricultural land»

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The burgeoning world population (predicted to be 9.3 billion by 2050), changing consumer demand in third - world countries, the gradual depletion of prime agricultural land, the use of innovative technologies, and scientists who view plants as a source of industrial products as well as food all contribute to the good prospects for the ag - biotech industry, particularly in Canada.

But other elements could potentially also contribute to a collapse: an accelerating extinction of animal and plant populations and species, which could lead to a loss of ecosystem services essential for human survival; land degradation and land - use change; a pole - to - pole spread of toxic compounds; ocean acidification and eutrophication (dead zones); worsening of some aspects of the epidemiological environment (factors that make human populations susceptible to infectious diseases); depletion of increasingly scarce resources [6,7], including especially groundwater, which is being overexploited in many key agricultural areas [8]; and resource wars [9].