Sentences with phrase «determine land availability»
In other areas, the coarse resolution of the input data used to determine land availability meant that some forested areas had been misidentified as grassland or cropland.
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The study, published this month in the journal of Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, draws on Seattle's current land use, light availability and national nutritional guidelines to determine the city's carrying capacity for feeding its population.
For example a recent study by the World Bank showed that the perceived availability of land is one important factor in determining the probability of being a destination country for land acquisitions.
Moreover, the researchers determined that changes in water availability for agriculture of plus or minus 20 percent had little impact on global food prices, bioenergy production, land - use change and the global economy.