Sentences with phrase «new arable land»
One paper I saw said the reason for this would be the slow migration of crops from hotter areas to the new arable land opened up by the warmer climate or just migration of farm land.
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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.
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.
New ways to utilize starch from cassava can provide food to an additional 30 million people without taking more arable land than today.
- This later translates into one of the main drivers behind land - grabbing in other continents (usually in developing countries in Africa, but also Latin America and Asia) and huge extensions of arable land used to grow these new cash - crops as opposed to feeding the world.
Either the world will continue to heat up, or a complex series of climate changes could tip us over into a sudden new ice age - one so severe, suggests Peter Schwartz, co-founder of the Global Business Network consultancy, that the planet's remaining arable land would only be able to support a mere two billion people.