Sentences with phrase «in global hectares»

Both measures are expressed in global hectares — globally comparable, standardized hectares with world average productivity.

In Ecological Footprint accounts, the «carbon Footprint» measures the amount of biological capacity, in global hectares, demanded by human emissions of fossil carbon dioxide.

To do this, we subtracted a country's ecological footprint (how much it takes from the environment) from its biocapacity (how much it puts back into the environment) to find its net biocapacity in global hectares per person.

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Almost haft of the global organic agricultural land is in Oceania (27.3 million hectares), followed by Europe (23 percent; 13.5 million hectares), and Latin America (12 percent; 7.1 million hectares).

In July, MH Premium Farms, the Australian agricultural operation of global fund manager Sir Michael Hintze, bought Deltroit Station, a 2573 - hectare property near Gundagai.

«This means farmers are now harvesting more rice per hectare, which not only lifts them out of poverty, but it is contributing towards the world - wide challenge of feeding the estimated global population of 9 billion people in 2050,» said Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Kevin Rudd.

According to this study, the global area of land under certified organic agriculture in 2002 was 17.8 million hectares of which:

Those few country examples alone suggest a global certified organic land area in excess of half a million hectares than publicly available figures.

In 2005 the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, which monitors the state of the world's forests every few years, reported that 13 million hectares of global forests are lost annually, including 6 million hectares of what are described as primary forests - some of the most biologically diverse ecological systems in the worlIn 2005 the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, which monitors the state of the world's forests every few years, reported that 13 million hectares of global forests are lost annually, including 6 million hectares of what are described as primary forests - some of the most biologically diverse ecological systems in the worlin the world.

Unfortunately, the mealybug is equally capable of traveling via a human vector — and it is now devastating the cassava (aka manioc or yucca) crop on some 200,000 hectares in Thailand, where some 60 percent of global exports (worth $ 1.5 billion) are grown, according to the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), a Colombia - based research nonprofit focused on reducing hunger and poverty via sustainable agriculture.

Global rates of tropical deforestation have increased over the last two decades, particularly in Southeast Asia, which lost approximately 32 million hectares of forests between 1990 and 2010.

In all, we found that the rate of forest loss from gold mining accelerated from 5,350 acres (2,166 hectares) per year before 2008 to15, 180 acres (6,145 hectares) each year after the 2008 global financial crisis that rocketed gold prices.»

The United States is the biggest alfalfa producer in the world, with 11.9 million hectares that means 41 % of the global market.

With humanity's ecological footprint of 2.7 global hectares (gha) per person means to say that to sustain the current population on Earth of 7 billion people would take 18.9 billion gha (2.7 gha x 7 billion people) which is higher than the 13.4 billion global hectares (gha) of biologically productive land and water on Earth, a fact that indicates that already exceeded the regenerative capacity of the planet in the average level of current world consumption.

Whereas five types of surface (cultivated areas, pastures, forests, fisheries and built environment), planet Earth has approximately 13.4 billion global hectares (gha) of biologically productive land and water according to 2010 data from the Global Footprint Network and humanity's ecological footprint reached the milestone of 2.7 global hectares (gha) per person in 2007 for a world population of 6.7 billion people on the same date (according to the UN)[See Article A terra no limite (Earth in the limit) by José Eustáquio Diniz Alves available on the website < http://planetasustentavel.abril.com.br/noticia/ambiente/terra-limite-humanidade-recursos-naturais-planeta-situacao-sustentavel-637804.shtglobal hectares (gha) of biologically productive land and water according to 2010 data from the Global Footprint Network and humanity's ecological footprint reached the milestone of 2.7 global hectares (gha) per person in 2007 for a world population of 6.7 billion people on the same date (according to the UN)[See Article A terra no limite (Earth in the limit) by José Eustáquio Diniz Alves available on the website < http://planetasustentavel.abril.com.br/noticia/ambiente/terra-limite-humanidade-recursos-naturais-planeta-situacao-sustentavel-637804.shtGlobal Footprint Network and humanity's ecological footprint reached the milestone of 2.7 global hectares (gha) per person in 2007 for a world population of 6.7 billion people on the same date (according to the UN)[See Article A terra no limite (Earth in the limit) by José Eustáquio Diniz Alves available on the website < http://planetasustentavel.abril.com.br/noticia/ambiente/terra-limite-humanidade-recursos-naturais-planeta-situacao-sustentavel-637804.shtglobal hectares (gha) per person in 2007 for a world population of 6.7 billion people on the same date (according to the UN)[See Article A terra no limite (Earth in the limit) by José Eustáquio Diniz Alves available on the website < http://planetasustentavel.abril.com.br/noticia/ambiente/terra-limite-humanidade-recursos-naturais-planeta-situacao-sustentavel-637804.shtml >].

The ecological footprint is a methodology used to measure the amounts of land and water (in terms of global hectares — gha) that would be needed to support domestic consumption.

Cuilcagh Mountain Park takes in 2500 hectares on the northern slopes of Cuilcagh Mountain, at the heart of the Marble Arch Caves Global Geopark.

Both ecological footprint and biocapacity are measured in a common unit, global hectares.

Whether it's the destruction of rainforest shared by elephants and orangutans in Sumatra to produce palm oil; reports linking fast food giants to the burning of tropical forests in Brazil and Bolivia; or the hundreds of thousands of hectares of tree cover loss per year in West Africa — the world's forests are being razed to sate global demand for -LSB-...]

New breeding lines derived from MAS, either in entirely new or recombined genetic backgrounds or in the background of rice mega-varieties that are already planted to millions of hectares, could potentially alleviate the negative effects of climate change on rice production due to global warming.»

This forest plays a key role in the global carbon equation by serving as a major storehouse for terrestrial carbon — indeed, it is believed to store more carbon per hectare than any other ecosystem on Earth.

Upper chart: Global average land area (in million hectares) in drought recovery for first year of each decade from 1901 to 2001.

Global Footprint Network's most recent accounts reveal that Earth's biocapacity in 2008 was 12 billion hectares (ha) compared to humanity's Footprint of 18.2 billion ha, and that the average Ecological Footprint had reached 2.7 global hectares (gha) per capita compared to only 1.8 gha of available biocapacity per capitGlobal Footprint Network's most recent accounts reveal that Earth's biocapacity in 2008 was 12 billion hectares (ha) compared to humanity's Footprint of 18.2 billion ha, and that the average Ecological Footprint had reached 2.7 global hectares (gha) per capita compared to only 1.8 gha of available biocapacity per capitglobal hectares (gha) per capita compared to only 1.8 gha of available biocapacity per capita [5].

While India as a whole demands a significant percent of the world's biocapacity, its per - capita Ecological Footprint, 0.8 global hectares, is smaller than that in many other countries, and well below the world average of 2.2 global hectares.

Global hectares are hectares with world - average productivity for all productive land and water areas in a given year.

On the Conversion between local and global hectares in Ecological Footprint analysis.

The fact that organic agriculture systems also absorb and retain significant amounts of carbon in the soil has implications for global warming, Pimentel said, pointing out that soil carbon in the organic systems increased by 15 to 28 percent, the equivalent of taking about 3,500 pounds of carbon dioxide per hectare out of the air.

Although the rate of global net forest loss slowed down from an average of 7.3 million hectares per year in the 1990s to 3.3 million hectares per year in 2010 — 2015, deforestation remains a matter of deep concern.

Drawdown's yield model calculates total annual global supply of crops and livestock products based on their area of adoption in each of the three scenarios, and global yield impacts of each solution (including both gains due to increased productivity per hectare and losses due to reduction of productive area due to adoption of non-agricultural solutions, e.g., loss of grazing area due to afforestation of grasslands).

These forests, which cover approximately 250 million hectares — more than California and Texas combined — play a critical role in regulating the global climate.

(07/15/2012) Indonesia and Malaysia lost more than 11 million hectares (42,470 square miles) of forest between 2000 and 2010, according to a study published last year in the journal Global Change Biology.

Indonesia and Malaysia lost more than 11 million hectares (42,470 square miles) of forest between 2000 and 2010, according to a study published last year in the journal Global Change Biology.

Analyzing deforestation data from 2001 through 2007, a team of researchers from the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University found the aboveground biomass lost per unit of forest cleared increased from 183 to 201 metric tons per hectare over the period, largely the result of moving from drier «transition» forests in the southern Amazon to wetter «rainforests» closer to the heart of the basin.

At the same time, forest area expanded in some places, either through planting or natural processes, bringing the global net loss of forest to 8.3 million hectares per year.