Sentences with phrase «of agricultural land owned»

Using real lemons may be no better because this could require large areas of agricultural land owned by big companies being used to grow trees that provide little or no benefit to the local population.

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Less than half of 1 per cent of Australia's agricultural land is owned by Chinese investors, while UK investors make up the largest proportion of overseas interest in Australia, according to a new report.

With an average of seven children per family, and with the cost of agricultural land rising in the Amish heartlands of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ontario, not every young Amish will one day farm his own tract of land.

To mitigate concerns about the level of Chinese investment, Australia will be able to screen proposals from private investors involving agricultural land, and Australia's equivalent of Investment Canada will still screen proposals from State - Owned Enterprises.

«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.»

About 99 % of the companies that own agricultural land are entirely Australian - owned (and these own 89 % of agricultural land in Australia).

At the same time, the Greens also committed to drop the FIRB threshold from $ 244m to $ 5m for rural land and ruled out supporting the sale of agricultural land and water rights to wholly owned subsidiaries of foreign governments.

Land O'Lakes, Inc., one of America's premier agribusiness and food companies, is a member - owned cooperative with industry - leading operations that span the spectrum from agricultural production to consumer foods.

Since 2010, the property has undergone a tremendous freshwater wetlands restoration — the most ambitious effort of its kind ever in the Northeast — in which wildlife agencies, including the state Division of Ecological Restoration and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, have been working with Mass Audubon and the visionary couple who currently own the property to convert the agricultural land into a vibrant and beautiful habitat for plants and animals that were once commonly found throughout southeastern Massachusetts.

Women represent 70 per cent of agricultural labour across Africa but own only 1 per cent of the land.

In her new book: Modified: GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future, journalist Caitlin Shetterly has turned her own personal journey into an exploration of how GMOs may be affecting not only our health but our agricultural future as well.

HIs contributions to our neighborhood have included «securing financing through the State's Secured Hospital Revenue Bond Program so that Flushing Hospital Medical Center and Jamaica Hospital and Medical Center could modernize and expand; providing the Lifeline Center for Child Development with a permanent home; securing the financial support that has enabled the Bayside Historical Society to undertake its restoration of the Fort Totten Officers Club; creating the Colonial Farmhouse Restoration Society to operate the former Adriance Farm Site as the Queens Farm Museum and transferring 52 acres of surrounding land to New York City for permanent use as horticultural - agricultural parklands; and providing land for the Cross Island YMCA to expand, for the Hollis - Bellaire - Queens Village - Bellerose Little League to own their ball fields and for Catholic Charities of the Brooklyn - Queens Diocese to develop senior citizen housing in Bellerose.

On the other hand, wind turbines also have a habit of icing up and, occasionally, throwing ice under those kinds of frost conditions, says Kathryn McCullough, whose family owns a wind farm and an agricultural farm on the same land in Oregon.

While Guangzhou's 48.6 million yuan plan to clean up the Pearl Rivers make for good policy, Guangdong's proposals to reclaim new land to increase agricultural land borders on ridiculousness, and speaks to the kind of lunatic policy making when subunits of national government are left to their own devices.

John Dawson: That «tragedy of the commons» was solved by enclosures that gave individuals responsibility for their own land, which led to an agricultural revolution and a boom in population and prosperity followed by the industrial revolution.

That «tragedy of the commons» was solved by enclosures that gave individuals responsibility for their own land, which led to an agricultural revolution and a boom in population and prosperity followed by the industrial revolution.

From a political perspective, these tax credits have three very powerful constituencies: 1) All taxpayers 2) Major companies looking to reduce their tax burden while doing something good for the environment 3) Landowners, farmers, ranchers, and the forest products industry (these groups will be eligible for tax credits for reforestation or agricultural changes on their own land; organizations such as the National Farmers Union, the American Forest and Paper Association, the National Alliance of Forest Owners, United Steelworkers, and many others have already been advocates for protection of tropical forests and cracking down on illegal logging as a way to level the playing field by ensuring products on the global market don't come from deforestation.)

We were loosely aware of the resulting «land grabs» by wealthy countries, which buy up agricultural land in poorer countries to ensure their own country's food far into the future.

Represented Kozy Shack, a family - owned business and manufacturer of refrigerated desserts, in its sale to Land O'Lakes, the second largest agricultural cooperative in the United States.

Part of the challenge is that «the agricultural industry doesn't set its own commodity prices; that's done by traders and speculators,» says Kirk Goble, ALC, with The Bell 5 Land Co. in Greeley, Colo..