Sentences with phrase «less land area»

FT: Vertical farming uses less land area and comparatively less water than conventional farming.

There are more Indians in India than China with less land area.

For example, farmers may react to decreasing yields by putting less land area into production because it's simply not profitable.

Not exact matches

This indicates that depending on how much of the farm is covered by coffee, the requirement may actually be less than 20 % of the total land area.

As farmers move to cities in search of higher paid work, and that typically is only around $ 2 - $ 3 per day, large areas of land have become less productive.

However, because of increasing land value and construction costs along with the lesser availability of land area, housing began to favor moderate density and multi-family developments.

To put the figures into perspective, even if England's urban areas were expanded by ten per cent, this could be achieved by only using less than one per cent of the total land mass.

Nana Akufo - Addo stated that Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana cultivate almost exactly the same land area for cocoa production — 1.7 million hectares, yet in the just ended cocoa crop year 2014/2015, total production of cocoa in Cote d'Ivoire amounted to over 1.6 million metric tonnes whilst Ghana could barely manage 700,000 metric tonnes, less than half.

The freshwater bodies on 38 percent of Earth's land area (not including Antarctica) are overly enriched with phosphorus, leading to potentially toxic algal blooms and less available drinking water, researchers report January 24 in Water Resources Research.

The paper doesn't provide policy recommendations, but Williams notes that areas that are currently less developed, like the Midwest, might consider land - use plans that preserve «habitat connectivity» so species can move.

Sorghum can potentially yield more energy per area of land than other crops while requiring much less input in terms of fertilizer or chemicals.

Csikszentmihalyi's Finding Flow 2, which focuses less on pop psychology and more on science, landed a spot on the personal - favorites area of my bookshelf.

He concludes that the demand pressures for increased cocoa exports, changing weather patterns and falling cocoa prices, has led to more monocropping — the agricultural practice of growing only one type of agricultural product in a large area of land, year after year — and less sustainable growing practices in recent years.

But the amount of land space taken up by cities is actually relatively small compared with the number of people they shelter: satellite image composites show that urban sites cover only 2.8 per cent of the Earth's land; accordingly the UN estimates that about 3.3 billion people occupy an area less than half the size of Australia.

He points out that land managers are already doing so, less systematically, by running regulated hunting of prey species in areas where top predators have been extirpated.

One recent study by Gordon McGranahan, Deborah Balk, and Bridget Anderson (2007) found that although coastal areas less than 10 meters above sea level constitute only 2 percent of the world's land area, they contain 10 percent of the world's population.

However, as farming practices and technologies continue to be refined, more food can be produced per unit of land — meaning less area is needed for agriculture and more land can be «spared» for natural habitats.

He explains that the country has the same land area as the US but less than half the population, and that is not very evenly spread.

Site J was chosen unanimously as the primary landing site because the majority of terrain within an area that size has slopes of less than 30 degrees relative to the local vertical and because there are relatively few large boulders.

The project therefore represents one of the most plausible approaches to enhancing crop yield and increasing resilience in the face of reduced land area, decreased use of fertilizers and less predictable supplies of water.

The accelerating melting of land ice into the sea makes the surface of the ocean around Antarctica colder, less salty and more easily frozen, leading to extensive sea ice in some areas.

When Mike and his girlfriend Debbie warn the local police that a gang of homicidal alien - clowns have landed in the nearby area (in a spaceship shaped like a circus big - top, no less), the cops are naturally skeptical.

Baker Motor Company guarantees you will not pay less for LAND ROVER Original or LAND ROVER Approved tires in the Charleston area.

The reality is that Bali is perfectly safe to travel even in case the volcano erupts, except for a very small area around Mount Agung which represents less than 5 % of the land mass of the Island.

Of course, exploring the area by sea kayak is an informative and fun way of getting to see the fabulous sights and, on land, the views are no less impressive - if you're willing to trek a little.

You will keep to the less wide river stream which leads you to a landing area for your kayak.

La Posada Inn is located in the southeastern section of Hacienda Pinilla, set on a quiet and peaceful stretch of land less than 2 miles from the areas gorgeous beaches.

This Nice villa stands on 200 sqm land area, within 5 minutes to popular area in Petitenget, Seminyak, Batubelig, 10 minutes to Canggu, and less than 30 minutes to the...

Creatures When dropping Toki in a nest, birds now have a «cooldown», so they won't instantly pick you up again when walking out of the nest Birds don't stop anymore when they sense vibration, making them less annoying when accidentically stomping near them No more random sorting of creatures: they all appear on their assigned depth value, preventing smaller creatures from sometimes getting lost behind bigger creatures Fixed the «spawning multiple camera birds» bug Slug corpses can't kill anymore, so no more accidentally walking into them and dying Bugs When stomped, berrybugs and copybugs now always hop the same distance (3 tiles), making their behavior more predictible Berrybugs now briefly stop if they detect an edge above their heads while walking on the floor, making it easier to stomp them onto a wall Copybugs and berrybugs get stunned when they're in the trajectory of a to be spawned bubble, so they can't hop / roll away before bubble is spawned Glowy berrybugs now use the same turn animation as normal berrybugs, so no more faster glow bugs Frogs and bubbles Bubbles now prioritize Toki Tori over other entities, so no more accidental berrybug ballooning Added a small delay before catching an entity in a bubble to allow for catching Toki Tori, even if he's a little further away than an entity Added possibility to queue a «turn by whistle» while the frog is running towards a berrybug, so you don't have to wait before being able to let the frog face the desired direction Fixed a problem where a fat frog won't belch anymore Achievements In - menu achievements system, including progress achievements Added a number of new achievements Tokidex completion is now a progress achievement (you can see how far along you are) Fixed the Fried Chicken achievement, so it's less hard to get All electrocuted entities now count for the X-Ray Enthusiast achievement Menu Completely new, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginning

That can get pretty tedious when combined with less - polished aspects of the game like combing its field areas to gather materials: these small, uninteresting sections of land are dotted with sparkles to mark off collectible items, making this task almost condescendingly simple and missing out on the potential fun of exploring an open map.

These wildfires release soot into the atmosphere, which accelerates the rate of melting of glaciers, snow and ice it lands upon, which can lead to less reflectivity, meaning more of the sun's heat is absorbed, leading to more global warming, which leads to even more wildfires, not to mention greater sea level rise, which is already threatening coastal areas around the world.

Now, we face the threat of 2 more hurricane force storms landing in our area in less than 1 week, and you dare to bring election politics into this discussion!

One of the big complaints about modern prefab is its inability to deliver at the cost that everyone expects (like matching production housing or less) and the problem of acquiring land, which is expensive, particularly in areas around cities like San

Thus, increased food production must largely take place on the same land area while using less water.

Even though the area in a protected status is far from the only criterion for conservation status, the fact that between 5 - 10 % of the land is in parks and preserves and less than 1 % of oceans is protected gives some sense of the disparity.

«Damming and diverting rivers means that much less sediment now reaches many delta areas, while extraction of gas and groundwater also lowers the land.»

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8266500.stm Damming and diverting rivers means that much less sediment now reaches many delta areas, while extraction of gas and groundwater also lowers the land.

As a reminder, Calisolar claims their UMG - Si process requires one - sixth the CAPEX, the electricity (less than 24 kWh per kilogram), and the land area of a typical Siemens process polysilicon plant.

Texas covers less than 0.2 % (1 part in 500) of the land area of the globe.

Vast areas of the land surface have little or no current data and even less historic data.

And while you are doing that, davie, you might tell us in your own words how less than 1c warming since the end of the little ice age and the beginning of the industrial revolution, measured with ever changing systems in areas of exponential land use change by people who have a total, consensual belief in global warming by ACO2 and no demonstrable scientific scepticism whatsoever, must constitute a «bad thing», awa being scientifically based and believable.

Ten countries or areas have no forest at all and an additional 54 have forest on less than 10 percent of their total land area (Figure 2).

The main problems as I understand it relates to water overdraft and lax land use policy that is allowing land to subside and less flow from the rivers that allows salt to encroach farther inland and building in areas that are prone to storm surge.

So perhaps less than 1 m / s over ocean and so some number closer to 10 m / s occurs over smaller the surface area of land.

If we just talking about land area, I think land absorbs significantly less than 40 % of energy of Sunlight.

The darkness of land and water compared with the reflectiveness of snow and ice means that when the latter melt to reveal the former, the area exposed absorbs more heat from the sun and reflects less of it back into space.

«Congress is expected to further cut funding for conservation programs and land agencies, already sitting at less than 1 percent of the federal budget,» writes Brad Brooks, the associate director of the Idaho office of the Wilderness Society, a nonprofit conservation group dedicated to protecting natural areas and federal public lands, in a recent AlterNet article.

I would hope that this is apparent to readers without further explanation from me here by virtue of obviously greater land mass areas as one moves northwards and to a lesser extent southwards from the equator.

They covered the same land area» less than 30 % of the Earth?s surface» housing recording stations that are poorly distributed, mainly in the US and Western Europe.

You need more land area if you want to use land and crops that are less productive.