Sentences with phrase «many arable»

«I acknowledge it's still early, but we are not seeing an impact on comp (arable) sales as a result of Philadelphia,» CEO Kevin Johnson told Wall Street analysts on a conference call.

He has described GM methods, which are employed on around 10 % of the world's arable farmland, as a «gigantic experiment with nature and the whole of humanity which has gone seriously wrong».

«This forecast is in line with medium - term supply demand fundamentals including the transition to more balanced diets, urbanization and a push to increase crop yields due to less arable land,» TD economist Sonya Gulati said.

As urban sprawl encroaches on the world's arable land, and environmental disasters send food prices soaring, innovators are seeking to take agriculture off the farm.

In the long run most analysts expect demand for potash to increase, as a growing global population looks to maximize yields from its shrinking pool of arable farmland.

Rice - produced on 163m hectares, around 12 % of the global arable area - has one of the greatest plant carbon footprints because it produces a lot of methane.

• Arable Capital Partners acquired Fresh Innovations, an Oxnard, Calif. - based packaged fruits processor.

At some point, we face catastrophic climate destabilization, lack of water and arable land to grow food as well as loss of oil energy to drive our civilizations.

China must somehow meet the demands of this new normal by feeding 19 % of the world's people — and feeding them better every day — with just 7 % of the world's arable land.

Outside Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, there's precious little unused arable land.

Even in China where land is vast, official figures in 2014 have indicated that more than 40 percent of arable land in China has already been degraded.

There are plains around Hudson Bay, could these ever be arable, or are these just peat bogs?

There is a grave environmental crisis in air quality (life expectancy in polluted northern cities is five and a half years lower than in the cleaner south), water and soil (one survey showed that 10 per cent of arable land was unsafe to grow crops on).

China reportedly has 10 % of global arable land and uses over 30 % of global fertilizer.

By increasing the amount of available arable land, it will be easier to agree on how to divide it.

We worry that arable soil is eroding and that water for irrigation is being used unsustainably.

Fisheries are crashing, deforestation is causing a whole complex of problems, the weather is becoming less favorable because of global warming, fresh water is becoming scarce, species are disappering, arable land is deteriorating.

«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»

In the U.S., issues of hunger are most frequently linked to lack of money, not arable land, and lack of money is linked either to un - or underemployment or entitlements.

Our agricultural methods since neolithic times have rendered barren half of the then arable land on the earth.

On this reading, Jabez's corpulent affliction continues into adulthood, meaning lie needs increased amounts of food (and so more arable property) to sustain his girth and, in his anxious and hungry eyes, his very life.

He calls attention, as experts increasingly are doing, to the deterioration of the world's resources in arable land and forests and to the pollution of air and water by pesticides and waste products.

Environmental water policies that show greater concern for bait fish than for food production, combined with years of drought, have strangled area farmers to the point that much of the arable land is returning to its natural semi-arid state.

As long as vast areas of arable land remained untilled, care for the land seemed sentimental.

Switzerland lacks arable soil, while Canada is one of the world's breadbaskets.

The need to produce more agricultural products with less water and arable land will tempt a modernizing China to engage in crash programs of high tech farming that will prove radically unsustainable.

Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke said that «none of Australia's environmental problems is more serious than the soil degradation... over nearly two - thirds of our continent's arable land» (Brown 1990, p. 60).

Arable land is covered with concrete at the rate of three football fields each minute.

Feeding an estimated 9.8 billion people by 2050 on a rapidly shrinking area of arable land can only be accomplished through a radical transformation that includes a wholesale reinvention of our global environmental priorities, as well as our social ones.

G.J.H.M. and Timmermans, Dr. B.G.H. (2009) The NDICEA model: a supporting tool for nitrogen management in arable farming.

In this International Year of Family Farming, farmers» leaders from every arable continent have clearly stated that the focus must be on the vast majority of the worlds farmers, small holder family farms rather than large scale agribusiness.

And if you have some arable land nearby you might want to try his gardening tips.

Arable farmers are urging dairy farmers to ease up on feeding their cattle imported palm kernel expeller (PKE) in favour of New Zealand - grown grains.

The technical guide explains the challenges that arable farmers face in control of creeping thistle, a persistent perennial weed.

The advantages of grassland - based animal production without concentrated feed are that pastures, which can not be used for arable crops, are used for food production.

· Seaweed farming is one of the most environmentally friendly types of aquaculture: It uses no arable land, freshwater, chemical treatments or fertilizers.

William Martin, Chairman of NFU Sugar, says: «The dismantlement of the EU Sugar regime and Brexit will present opportunities for arable farmers in the beet growing areas of the UK, but the real opportunities will come from beet growers and British Sugar working in partnership to maximize the returns from the market place in a new commercial environment.»

With its stabilized rice bran, RiceBran Technologies has created a second crop and food source without increasing the use of arable land or water.

It's better to have land that is both arable and that can be used for grazing,» he said.

New farmland is being developed in South America, rising global temperatures should increase the area of arable land in north America and northern Europe and improved governance in Africa is leading to increased food production there.

Holland Malt believes the plant is one of the largest and most modern barley storage and malting facilities in the world with the potential to produce over 130,000 t of malt per year by the processing of 165,000 t of malting barley and other grains from the surrounding 30,000 ha of arable land.

Soil organic carbon (SOC) in arable organic farming depends on inputs in crop residues, green manure, catch crops and animal manure.

Reducing food losses & food waste (FLW) is a key global challenge to ensure sufficient and healthy food into the future, and to use available arable land as efficiently as possible.

According to Dr. Ingrid van der Meer of Wageningen University in the Netherlands: «Lemna (duckweed) which has a high protein content, a high yield, a good amino acid profile, requires no arable land and is therefore sustainable.

Semi-natural habitats are refuges for endangered plant species which in former times were found in meadows and arable fields.

With regard to pollinators, which greatly benefit from a richness of flowers, the fact that flowering weeds are more diverse and more abundant in organic arable fields and in organic grassland compared to conventional fields, where only few species and numbers were found, is particularly important.

In most cases, organic agriculture conserves better than conventional agriculture the site - typical plant community of floral species of arable land.

In a European context, the labour input is higher on organic arable and mixed farms, while organic dairy farms use the same amount of labour, or less, than comparable conventional farms.

Today, the diversity of the typical wild flora on arable fields, which is the main habitat for a wide range of species, is at risk.

Many endangered or rare species which are enhanced by semi-natural habitats and field margins were more abundant in organic arable fields than in the integrated managed fields.