Sentences with word «landholder»

And the Catholic Church of America is the largest landholder in Manhattan.

Today it is one of the top eight meat processors in the country, one of the top ten in the beef feedlot business, and one of the top 20 private landholders in the country.

A decision on the sale of Australia's largest private landholder S.Kidman & Co has been delayed due to government regulatory approvals.

Alternatively, interested parties can do research on avoided deforestation and look for potential deals with landholders in Indonesia.

The generally held belief that ours is a nation of small landholders is a myth.

We strive to build positive relationships with Indigenous landholders by grounding our work in principles of decolonization and aligning ourselves in solidarity with with the struggle for Indigenous sovereignty.

«The DoD is one of the biggest landholders in the country and owns much of the best remaining habitat for these rare species in the Southeast,» Willson said.

Kajir has served as chief executive officer of the Environmental Law Centre in Port Moresby and was the lead attorney in a Supreme Court case aimed at stopping foreign timber companies» large - scale, illegal deforestation practices, often accompanied by threats of harm to local landholders who dare to challenge them.

contribute, as major landholders, to the development of adaptation and mitigation strategies to address climate change

As summarised below, the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office will continue to work with the Murray Darling Basin Authority, state agencies, research organisations, regional organisations, local groups and others, such as landholders to collect and collate relevant monitoring information that facilitates evaluation and reporting of the use of water under the Basin Plan.

Temporary purchase options include water from off - stream storages being released to the watercourse by landholders under an agreement with the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder.

DomaCom, the property crowd funding group which hoped to buy Australia's largest landholder S.Kidman & Co, is now looking to use the money raised for other farm buys.

There are five or six major landholders who are benefiting from loopholes in the laws and administrative shortcomings, and who are thus accruing all the value in the appreciation in land without being taxed.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Office is continuing to develop options to purchase temporary water from landholders in the Lower Balonne to enhance flows to environmental assets of the Narran Lakes.

Governments must work with us to remove the barriers which deny us the same access as other landholders to the CFI scheme.

The Aboriginal people of Cape York Peninsula, the ACF and TWS acknowledge and affirm that pastoralists of Cape York (including non CU members) are significant landholders who have existing legal rights and concerns related to their industry and lifestyle.

The challenge now is to build upon this progress to construct a strategy for promoting a new model of rural development in which punitive measures are complemented by positive incentives and finance at scale for landholders, indigenous communities, counties, and states to make the transition to low deforestation, productive, sustainable rural development.

Under «Impact of farming activities», this document states «Host landholders generally find that wind farm development does not significantly impact farm operations.»

The government's support has only weakened landholder rights.

«The Eastern Mt Lofty Ranges Landscape Guardians is an organisation of residents and landholders whose aim is to preserve the flora, fauna, amenity and tranquility (sic) of the Mt. Lofty Ranges near the Barossa Valley, Eden Valley, Cambrai, Sedan and surrounding areas in South Australia.»

This approach pays landholders or farmers for actions that preserve the services to public and environmental health provided by ecosystems on their property, including services that contribute to both climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Beyond the rise of compensation for ecosystem services, there are other signs that deforestation can be slowed, including improved fire management by large - scale landholders, growing concern in some commodity markets about the environmental performance of developers, new opportunities for sustainable development and gains in productivity, and establishment of protected areas in regions where development is expanding rapidly.

At the panel, Oliver admitted that his plan — approved by experts — to disrupt agriculture by putting affordable tractors in the hands of small African landholders failed because he wasn't close enough to the market.

When landholders shifted from peasant farming to raising sheep, far less labor was needed.

The Tuppal Creek landholders greatly assisted NSW environmental water managers to develop the watering objectives, delivery timing and flow release rates for the event and were directly involved in the monitoring program.

The recent watering action was developed through partnership with an enthusiastic landholder and complements a range of land management activities such as weed and pest animal control and salt interception.

Landholder Jim Macdonald with daughter Grace during the environmental watering of Tuppal Creek in November 2012.

The 10 gigalitres of water allocation will support landholders in the Gwydir including producers of cotton, cattle, and wheat and pulse crops,» Mr Papps said.

They are also the result of the efforts of many local people, including landholders, who are doing their bit to work with us to protect and preserve their waterways and wetlands and the many animals and plants dependent on them.

The highly politicised sale process for Australia's largest landholder S. Kidman & Co is back on and crowdfunder DomaCom has joined Lloyds Business Brokers to launch a fresh $ 370 million bid.

That may include deploying some big name overseas - base landholders to help champion Australia's export case against quota restrictions and non-quota barriers, including bans on hormone growth promotants in beef.

The coexistence of an aboriginal title with the estate of the ordinary private landholder is readily recognized as an absurdity.

The NSW Government's plan to prosecute alleged water theft on the Barwon - Darling River has been met with scepticism from lower Darling landholders.

Just have to say «well done to the Republican Party for figuring out how to steal elections from the people using arcane rules designed to keep rural landholders in charge.

But something has to be done to protect the interests of both the careful hunter and the reasonable landholder.

Or disenfranchising groups - if we go back to only allowing white male landholders to vote, the electorate will be much smaller.

Researchers have identified gamba grass and other invasive weeds as a potential threat to landholder involvement in environmental offset programs such as the Carbon Farming Initiative.

«It's really important we look at how these types of barriers might prevent landholders from getting involved in environmental offset programs and that we strategically manage weeds so that they don't become an intractable problem in the future.»

The series successfully engages the warring imperial powers, the pirates, the colonial landholders, and their slave laborers all into something entertaining and digestible in episodic form.

To best estimate the amount of carbon the Tolo River community could prevent from being emitted, COCOMASUR teamed up with Anthrotect, a U.S. - based organization that «works with community landholders to implement payment for ecosystem services projects that connect communities with emerging markets for carbon and biodiversity,» according to documents filed with the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS), which is the certification program under which they chose to become certified.

Provide participating landholders with access to microcredit financing to ensure sufficient working capital for each harvesting season.

These include Brazil's forest code, which requires Amazon landholders to keep 50 - 80 percent of their land forested, and a proposed climate change mitigation mechanism, known as internationally as REDD, that would compensate land owners for keeping their forests standing.

He's desperate for the $ — probably need's some income to pay his greedy landholder rent.

While groups like the Wilderness Society run advertisements suggesting that in western Queensland and New South Wales broadscale tree clearing is a major environmental threat, many local landholders argue the problem is quite different.

The survey indicated that 66 % of respondents were concerned about climate change, 77 % supported wind farms, 69 % supported nearby wind farms, and a majority saw wind farms as positives for: appearance, tourism, local business, short term jobs, local economy and landholder income.

With more than 100 million small landholder farmers in East Africa, agricultural commercial agriculture cooperatives can act as a realistic solution to the region's food insecurity.

A key question for Indigenous and non-Indigenous landholders will be the extent (if any) to which the same land, vegetation or trees can be used for the generation of biodiversity and carbon credits.