Sentences with phrase «land hungry persons»
On the contrary it is the visible force and migration laws of the superpowers that keep the land hungry persons from the empty space of the world occupied in the days of colonial expansion.
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They conveniently dichotomize all land - use decisions as people versus scenery or hungry workers versus idle back - packers.
It is the visible force and migration laws of the superpowers that keep the land - hungry people away from the empty spaces of the world which were occupied in the days of colonial expansion.
It is an excess in an age where almost a billion people go hungry, and represents a waste of the labour, water, energy, land and other inputs that went into producing that food.
While Americans are far from going hungry, we are actually using less and less of our farm land and people refuse to become farmers under this system, so I would argue the US is likely producing less food and especially the food people want to eat than we would otherwise.
By displacing agriculture for food — and causing more land clearing — biofuels are bad for hungry people and the environment
At a time when the land, water, and energy resources necessary to feed a global population of 6.9 billion are increasingly limited - and when at least 1 billion people remain chronically hungry - food losses mean a waste of those resources and a failure of our food system to meet the needs of the poor.
A large share of the world's 852 million hungry people live on land with soils worn thin by erosion.
And because some of the countries where land is being acquired do not have enough land to adequately feed their own people, the stage is being set for future conflicts between the so - called land grabbers and hungry local people.