Sentences with phrase «loss of agricultural land»

This loss of agricultural land would lead to a decrease of food production, necessarily leading to an increase in imports — thus undermining food self - sufficiency and the country's economy.

We might be able to attribute an 8 % of the loss of agricultural land to flooding.

There is no widespread loss of agricultural land.

Economy in loss due to loss of agricultural land.

At the time, Agriculture Minister Lana Popham said in a Facebook post that the approval was the most difficult decision of her career and she was «grieving the loss of agricultural land in the flood zone of Site C.»

Not exact matches

Indeed, if we spend additional money to counter the effects of changing weather and loss of water supplies or erosion of agricultural land, all this expenditure is added to the GDP.

But if we compare these gains with the permanent loss to those peoples of the services performed by the forests, the damage to the rivers and to the agricultural lands by the erosion of the mountainsides, the loss of fisheries, and so forth, one can hardly judge that the lot of the people has been improved.

From year to year I have observed the loss of cropland in places like Niger and Kenya where the demands of relentless commercial cash - cropping with no regard for environmental conservation have left the land bare and, for the foreseeable future, useless for agricultural production.

Illinois, a state with a $ 9 billion agricultural commodities market and 80 percent of its land area devoted to farming (mostly corn and soybeans), could see significant losses associated with fighting — or failing to properly fight — this weed, Hager said.

Agricultural lands account for 68.3 % of total soil losses, while forests account for less than 1 %.

While recent policy interventions (such as the Good Agricultural and Environment Condition requirements of the CAP, and the EU Soil Thematic Strategy) have reduced the rate of soil loss in the EU by an average of 9.5 % overall, and by 20 % for arable lands, the study finds that four million hectares of EU croplands have unsustainable rates of soil loss (more than 5 tonnes per hectare per year).

The team was able to demonstrate that the loss of species is related to changes in the hydrologic regime resulting from the conversion of forested areas to agricultural land.

The lower land - use efficiency of organic systems means that «large - scale conversion to organic would likely require bringing more natural habitats into agricultural production,» with a potentially severe impact on global biodiversity due to the loss of rainforests and other currently wild areas.

First, the recent paper describing the threat of the «aridification» of a quarter of the planet's land area under continued global heating implies a critical loss of agricultural capacity.

Total estimated damage: 750 mln $ (flooded agricultural lands with loss of crops and the damage from the hailstorm).

A partial melt would be sufficient for the need to relocate millions and in addition the loss of fertile low - lying agricultural lands would have many severe consequences.

Another of the considered options would have involved covering up to a quarter of the world's agricultural land with unproductive biomass — tree trunks that would have to be buried — while another would have meant the loss of natural ecosystems equivalent to one - third of all the world's present forested land.

Anthropogenic climate change and land use change in the form of agricultural expansion («habitat conversion» — a sweet description for deforestation) act as synergistic drivers of biodiversity loss — in a Costa Rican environmental experiment — literally drying out the... Continue reading →

But other elements could potentially also contribute to a collapse: an accelerating extinction of animal and plant populations and species, which could lead to a loss of ecosystem services essential for human survival; land degradation and land - use change; a pole - to - pole spread of toxic compounds; ocean acidification and eutrophication (dead zones); worsening of some aspects of the epidemiological environment (factors that make human populations susceptible to infectious diseases); depletion of increasingly scarce resources [6,7], including especially groundwater, which is being overexploited in many key agricultural areas [8]; and resource wars [9].

If the whole of Eastern Antarctica melts, a 19m global sea - level rise is possible, but the effect of this lesser rise would still be catastrophic to both cities and agricultural land, apart from immediate loss of human lives.

There has been a loss of citrus groves in California, but it largely was due to houses being built on agricultural lands in Orange County, other Southern California locations, and the Silicon Valley.

Talia Coria, who heads the office's division in Michoacán, said that nearly 50,000 acres of forest land are converted to agricultural uses each year in the state, and that between 30 and 40 percent of the annual forest loss is due to avocados, about 15,000 to 20,000 acres.

Switching to cleaner energy does nothing directly to address over consumption of natural resources, biodiversity loss & habitat destruction, the gross land - use disaster that is suburban sprawl, and soil degradation resulting from destructive agricultural practices.