Sentences with phrase «from arable land»

We would also welcome work with conservationists of endangered, barberry - dependent insect species to ensure that planting of common barberry occurs away from arable land, thus safeguarding European cereals from a large - scale re-emergence of wheat stem rust.»

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Holland Malt believes the plant is one of the largest and most modern barley storage and malting facilities in the world with the potential to produce over 130,000 t of malt per year by the processing of 165,000 t of malting barley and other grains from the surrounding 30,000 ha of arable land.

Assarts were bits of land cleared from the forest for arable uses.

Ashanti region has vast arable lands that could be very suitable for making money and creating jobs from this tree.

More acreage was converted to growing crops between 1950 and 1980, than from 1700 to 1850, and arable land is one of nine «planetary boundaries» that scientists have identified — limits past which humanity should fear to tread.

Saving chocolate Because the threats to cocoa production come from pests, disease, climate change and poverty, work must be done on all these issues to raise yields without tearing down rain forests to gain arable land.

More than 40 percent of China's arable land is suffering from degradation, official news agency Xinhua said, reducing its capacity to produce food for the world's biggest population.

Conversion to arable land changes the hydrological regime In the present study, the cause for the decrease in species diversity is the changing hydrological regime resulting from the conversion of forest to arable land.

New ways to utilize starch from cassava can provide food to an additional 30 million people without taking more arable land than today.

China's government admits that 19.4 % of arable land is contaminated with heavy metals, while the region which is high enough to produce hardy and nutritious roots, the Yunnan region, is exempt from many national pollution limits.

The need is dire: Dependence on wood for cooking and heating has reduced the amount of forest cover from a healthy 25 percent at the beginning of the 1900s to less than 8 percent today, causing flooding, erosion, and landslides that have destroyed homes and arable land.

# 18: «I see a lot of good coming from increased vegetative growth, and more arable land for vegetation to grow in.»

Other than possibly slightly higher sea levels, I see a lot of good coming from increased vegetative growth, and more arable land for vegetation to grow in.

If it was a matter of choice, I think the nearer to sun is better than further from the sun, mainly because where continental land mass are currently located - we would get more arable land.

The United States alone would require six times its arable land — and 75 percent of the world's cultivated land — to supply its needs with ethanol made from corn, according to calculations by Vaclav Smil, an energy expert at the University of Manitoba.

When the earth's temperature rises on average by more than two degrees, interactions between different consequences of global warming (reduction in the area of arable land, unexpected crop failures, extinction of diverse plant and animal species) combined with increasing populations mean that hundreds of millions of people may die from starvation or disease in future famines.

The arguments interested me in high school from «Limits to Growth», but drew healthy skepticism as the predictions slowly failed about famines and arable land reductions.

BECCS may need about a third of the world's arable land to capture enough carbon to keep the temperature from rising above two degrees.

One paper I saw said the reason for this would be the slow migration of crops from hotter areas to the new arable land opened up by the warmer climate or just migration of farm land.

And without a demographic transition, a planet of 9 or 11 or even 14 billion people scraping a bare existence from the land is a planet in which virtually every plot of arable land will be converted to low - intensity farming.

To take just one fairly representative example, in the classic Rothampstead experiments in England where arable land was allowed to revert to deciduous temperate woodland, soil organic carbon increased 300 - 400 % from around 20 t / ha to 60 - 80 t / ha (or about 20 - 40 tons per acre) in less than a century (Jenkinson & Rayner 1977).

«We're in a fairly volatile time from a macroeconomic perspective with Europe, but when you really look at our industry and the population increasing while arable land is decreasing, we ultimately think that over the medium term there are lots of opportunities.»