Sentences with phrase «marginal farming land»

Hamilton's study, however, took place in Michigan's temperate humid climate and on the kind of well - drained soil characteristic of marginal farming land.

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Even if 60 % of agriculture would convert to organic farming, concentrated feed were reduced by 50 % and food waste by 50 %, it would result in a food system with significantly decreased environmental impacts, including lower overall greenhouse gas emissions, and only a marginal increase in agricultural land area.

Equally, instead of encouraging low - tech traditional farming methods it may be preferable to focus on improving high - yield mechanised agriculture on the most fertile farmland to feed the new urban residents, whilst allowing mountainsides and other marginal lands to revert to forest.

Turning marginal lands into biofuel farms could also have a negative impact on the local environment.

To see if nonfood plants could be a source of a biofuel the way corn is, researchers followed six alternative crops and farming systems in so - called marginal lands over 20 years, including poplar trees and alfalfa.

If there were one tenth as many people on the Earth then farmers would be able to farm only the best land; the marginal land could be left for nature.

Among these are shifting from conventional tillage to minimum - till and no - till, the more extensive use of cover crops, the return of all livestock and poultry manure to the land, expansion of irrigated area, a return to more mixed crop - livestock farming, and the forestation of marginal farmlands.

Why did food production develop first in these seemingly rather marginal lands, and only later in today's most fertile farm - lands and pastures?

Among these are the shift to minimum - till and no - till farming, the more extensive use of cover crops, the return of all livestock and poultry manure to the land, expansion of irrigated area, a return to more mixed crop - livestock farming, and the forestation of marginal farmlands.

The researchers say in nations with higher well - being farmers are less likely to farm on marginal land and more efficient farming has, in many cases, reduced the need to clear more farm land.

Among these are the shift to minimum - till and no - till farming, the more extensive use of cover crops, the return of livestock and poultry manure to the land, expansion of irrigated area, a return to more mixed crop - livestock farming, and the forestation of marginal land.