Sentences with phrase «more land for agriculture»

If on the other hand the moderately impacted land used in organic agriculture made it a suitable habitat for several important native species of wildlife that are threatened by conventional agriculture, then perhaps it would be ok to use a little more land for agriculture.

That opens up more land for agriculture, reduces the economic impacts of long winters, etc..

Anticipated temperature increase at high latitudes will open up more lands for agriculture, increasing global food production and thus benefiting the world's poorest peoples.

Not exact matches

Money is moving out of iron ore but where it goes next is the more interesting question, because it seems that some investors are developing a taste for agriculture — a shift that might prove to be a case of leaving the frying pan to land in the fire.

«Agriculture will have no choice but to be more productive,» Diouf added, noting that increases would need to come mostly from yield growth and improved cropping intensity rather than from farming more land despite the fact that there are still ample land resources with potential for cultivation, particularly in sub-Sahara Africa and Latin America.

Here in Boulder, the community has voted to sup - port organic agriculture, so the certification opens doors [to more land] for us.

He assured that the his administration will continue to build on the policies put in place by the previous administration to enhance rapid development in the sector, adding that so far, the government has energized the Agriculture Land Holding Authority (ALHA), to make more land readily available for Agricultural developmLand Holding Authority (ALHA), to make more land readily available for Agricultural developmland readily available for Agricultural development.

«With the recent interest and surge in urban agriculture, we have been looking for more access to land,» she said.

Moreover, as appetites for food and biofuels — made with palm, corn, and other plants — rise, more land is needed to accommodate agriculture.

By displacing agriculture for food — and causing more land clearing — biofuels are bad for hungry people and the environment

Alternatively, more than a quarter of land used for agriculture at present would have to be converted into biomass plantations — putting at risk global food security.

Combinations of these mechanisms and more will make saving land from agriculture and sparing it for nature more likely, write the researchers.

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.

By farming insects, we could get more meat from the same amount of grain, use less land for agriculture and cut pollution.

«This shows that the land available for agriculture was used more intensively for growing food,» conclude Dr. Klotz, Head of the Department of Community Ecology.

This report discusses the need for a sustainable intensification» of global agriculture in which yields are increased without adverse environmental impact and without the cultivation of more land.

««The arid lands of southwestern North America will imminently become even more arid as a result of human - induced climate change just at the time that population growth is increasing demand for water, most of which is still used by agriculture,» said Richard Seager, Senior Research Scientist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and one of the lead authors of the study.

The greatest uncertainty is in how we react to the opening up of greater northern hemispherical land mass to longer seasons, the rate at which we abandon older cropland for more intensive agriculture, and the manner in which we introduce plant species, especially in forestry.

An outlook published in 2009 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (/ / go.nature.com/DdNYvk) says that current cropland could be more than doubled by adding 1.6 billion hectares — mostly from Latin America and Africa — without impinging on land needed for forests, protected areas or urbanization.

• Longer growing seasons and more land available for agriculture, two factors that will yield greater crop production.

[1] «Indirect land use change» (ILUC) means that many biofuels harm the climate even more than the fossil fuels they replace — due to land use changes caused by the expansion of agriculture to meet the additional demand for crop - based biofuels.

As the population grows we need more land to grow crops to feed ourselves and that adds to climate change which in turn poisons our oceans with acid rain and reduces the available land for agriculture.

Agriculture accounts for 4 percent of the California economy according to Tom Tomich of UC Davis» Agricultural Sustainability Institute (agriculture also accounts for 8 percent of California energy use, 20 percent of California's land area and more than 40 percent of the state's fresh Agriculture accounts for 4 percent of the California economy according to Tom Tomich of UC Davis» Agricultural Sustainability Institute (agriculture also accounts for 8 percent of California energy use, 20 percent of California's land area and more than 40 percent of the state's fresh agriculture also accounts for 8 percent of California energy use, 20 percent of California's land area and more than 40 percent of the state's fresh water use).

By intensifying agriculture, we can use land more efficiently for productivity.

Food and farming hasn't gotten a lot of lip service in the climate change debate, but it should: globally, agriculture, forestry and other land - based industries are responsive for 24 percent of GHG emissions, far more than cars and trucks.

For more than a decade, researchers have struggled and failed to balance global carbon budgets, which must balance carbon emissions to the atmosphere from fossil fuels (6.3 Pg per year; numbers here from Skee Houghton at Woods Hole Research Center) and land use change (2.2 Pg; deforestation, agriculture etc.) with carbon dioxide accumulation in the atmosphere (3.2 Pg) and the carbon sinks taking carbon out of the atmosphere, especially carbon dioxide dissolving in Ocean surface waters (2.4 Pg).

«A national scheme of payments for environmental services would provide incentives for local land users to turn to more sustainable agriculture, encourage reforestation and help meet the demand for wood, including wood fuels,» said Almeida Sitoe, Associate Professor at Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Mozambique and lead author of the report.

Lawmakers with links to mining and agriculture interests amended two government bills to open up even more land for exploitation, in a move that environmentalists say jeopardises the country's climate change goals.

Thus, to the greatest extent possible, policies at all levels should be designed and implemented to meet four goals: (i) In sustainable ways, maintain and increase the security of food supplies for food insecure people, particularly in developing countries; (ii) Enable small - scale food producers and other vulnerable populations to become more resilient to climate change; (iii) Sustainably reduce emissions from the agricultural sector; and (iv) Reduce emissions from the conversion of other land to agriculture.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

If emission analyses consider empirical data reflecting the progressive degradation that occurs (often over decades) before and independently of agriculture market signals for land use, as well as changes in the frequency and extent of fire in areas that biofuels help bring into more stable market economies, then the resulting carbon emission estimates would be worlds apart.

As agricultural counties transition to more urban land uses, it becomes increasingly important to plan for agriculture.

Indeed Tim if you want to go to catchment modification theories — well tree clearing for agriculture and grazing ought be giving us more runoff in one respect but perhaps changes in land surface feedbacks from land development may have also made a contribution to a warmer drier climate as this preliminary research shows.

For example, Oxfam notes that «women produce more than half of all the food grown worldwide, yet own only two per cent of all land and get only one per cent of lending to agriculture» — a rather glaring oversight in the World Bank's fact - findings if they really do mean business about poverty (and I bet they do).

Conserving Biodiversity in Yemen In Yemen, where agriculture employs more than 55 percent of the economically active population, the World Bank is tapping local farmers «long traditions of agrobiodiversity farming practices» to create coping strategies for adaptation to climate change, including «the conservation and utilization of biodiversity important to agriculture (particularly the local land races and their wild relatives) and associated local traditional knowledge.»

Growing more forests has value and can use land not suitable for agriculture, so is complementary.

However the smaller parcel of land needed to grow X amount of food using conventional agriculture, as well as the surrounding landscape, will be much more heavily impacted than the larger parcel of land needed if we opt for organic agriculture instead.

Activists are clamoring for more city - owned land and farmer's markets, free municipal composting, mandatory procurement of local food for schools and an «urban agriculture ombudsman.»