Sentences with phrase «of arable»

The paradoxical question for the real estate industry to reconcile is, what is the value of arable farmland with an unpredictable hydrologic future?

By the mid-1830s, treaties covered most of the arable lands in Upper Canada.

Normally it's been said that our urbanization efforts and poorer desecration of arable land has resulted in an enhancing of warming.

With food scarcity driven by falling water tables, eroding soils, and rising temperatures, control of arable land and water resources is moving to center stage in the global struggle for food security.

And without a demographic transition, a planet of 9 or 11 or even 14 billion people scraping a bare existence from the land is a planet in which virtually every plot of arable land will be converted to low - intensity farming.

With falling water tables, eroding soils, and rising temperatures making it difficult to feed growing populations, control of arable land and water resources is moving to center stage in the global struggle for food security.

Imagine the economic cost of 2/3 of Florida being under water, of our coastal cities under water, or the loss of half of our arable land areas.

Very little of the arable land is irrigated, and local populations depend on monsoon rainfall for agriculture.

Though growing seasons in some areas will expand, the combined impacts of drought, severe weather, lack of accumulated snowmelt, greater number and diversity of pests, lower groundwater tables and a loss of arable land could cause severe crop failures and livestock shortages worldwide.

In the past two years, food exporting countries have devoted up to a third of their arable farmland to «bio-fuels», thereby doubling the price of food in third world nations since 2007.

The area is nearly twice the amount of arable land in South Africa.

- 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.

Right now the increase is happening * extremely rapidly *, and it will change sea levels, weather conditions, and the availability of arable land.

the loss of arable land in Africa, or the disappearance of water sources in Asia Speculation, not fact.

The natural variation that has led us out of the Little Ice Age has a bit of frosting on the cake by land use; and, part of that land use has resulted in a change in vegetation and soil CO2 loss so that we see a rise in CO2 and the CO2 continues to rise without a temperature accompaniment (piano player went to take a leak), as the land use has all but gobbled up most of the arable land North of 30N and we are starting to see low till farming and some soil conservation just beginning when the soil will again take up the CO2, and the GMO's will increase yields, then CO2 will start coming down on its own and we can go to bed listening to Ave Maria to address another global crisis to get the populous all scared begging governments to tell us much ado about... nothing.

So deep sea mining of rare earths for EV batteries, solar panels, bird killing windmills, pollution by heavy metals, reduction of arable land by renewables is of no concern to you as long as we have a CO2 TAX and produce useless sources of energy.

Or the greatest contiguous stretch of arable farm land in the world (which conveniently happens to be adjacent to those navigable rivers I mentioned.

When the earth's temperature rises on average by more than two degrees, interactions between different consequences of global warming (reduction in the area of arable land, unexpected crop failures, extinction of diverse plant and animal species) combined with increasing populations mean that hundreds of millions of people may die from starvation or disease in future famines.

«Excessive prices for oil and food» to a certain extent the result of policy restrictions on the use of hydrocarbons, the effect of extrusion from the structure of arable food crops through improved crop plants from which ethanol is produced to replace hydrocarbons as fuel.

We only use 1/3 of our arable land.

For example, extreme storms often cause extreme soil erosion, and the substitution of pumped groundwater for lost precipitation can lead to a permanent loss of arable land due to salinization of soil and land subsidence, and (as indicated above) permanent loss of aquifer storage capacity.

The fact is, the U.S. only uses 1/3 of its arable land.

One is the availability of arable land.

This would reduce growing seasons and eliminate some of the arable land area in northern latitudes across Canada, Europe and China.

But we are also running out of clean water, of arable land to support a swelling population, and of every other non-renewable resource.

Food supply has not collapsed (1.5 billion hectares of arable land are being used, but another 2.7 billion hectares are in reserve).

I'm catching up with a great package of reports, commentary and analysis in the July 28th edition of the journal Nature on the challenging, but entirely doable, task of feeding roughly 9 billion people by midcentury (and doing so without using up the last patches of arable land).

Because the amount of arable land is limited and what is left is being lost to urbanization, salinization, and desertification, it no longer possible to simply open up more undeveloped land for cultivation to meet production needs.

Another swindle concerns the amount of arable land where such schemes could possibly be carried out.

What will likely happen as a result of global warming is a migration of arable land northwards, but also mass desertification.

East Antarctic ice sheet: Abrupt (geologic, but still shortish), absolutely catastrophic (even over centuries; 70 meters covers an awful lot of arable land and infrastructure, and there's no guarantee that the remaining dry land will be an Eden).

This situation is changing abruptly as wealthy foreign governments and international agribusiness firms snatch up large swaths of arable land in the upper Basin.

How many acres of arable land do their energy and water use policies take out of commission every year?

Over 75,000 square miles of arable land is lost each year to urbanization and desertification.

The Urubamba alluvial basin is an almost continuous zone of arable and pastoral farming land.

Feral cats running amok with tractors have degraded up to 40 % of the arable land in China.

Indeed, it is the problem of China, where a fifth of the arable land has been tainted by the production and demolition of electronics.

China's government admits that 19.4 % of arable land is contaminated with heavy metals, while the region which is high enough to produce hardy and nutritious roots, the Yunnan region, is exempt from many national pollution limits.

Our planet is expected to host an extra two billion people by 2050, but the amount of arable land we've got to work with won't be changing all that much.

Changes in the Metagenome of Prokaryotic Community as an Indicator of Fertility of Arable Soddy - Podzolic Soils upon Fertilizer Application — A. N. Naliukhin — Eurasian Soil Science

These findings can also be illustrated in other aspects of resource use: the team found the highest rate of increase in the cultivation of arable land to be in the 1950s; the peak for human - made irrigation areas then followed in the 1970s, and the peak for nitrogen fertilisers was subsequently in the 1980s.

With only 6 percent of the world's total water resources and barely 9 percent of the arable land, China nevertheless must feed 21 percent of the world's population.

As settlers moved west, in part because of the lack of arable land, the forests were given a shot at redemption.

They'll need to eat somehow, but we're already running out of arable land.

However, pressures to increase the amount of arable land for food and fuel could offset the reduction, unless more sustainable land management practices are applied.

OVER the past forty years, the world has lost nearly a third of its arable land — because of accelerated soil erosion due to farming and other activities.

14 About 46,000 square miles of arable land turn to desert every year due to climate change and practices such as forest clear - cutting.

In the UK, Mike Adams, project leader at the Plant Pathology Department at the Institute of Arable Crops Research, set up a successful collaboration the Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Hangzhou, China, to fight mosaic viruses in wheat.

Scientists from the Technical University Munich (TUM) suspect that the humus stocks of arable soils are declining due to the influence of climate change.

Yaro said LASUCO, a backward integration site for BUA Group's sugar subsidiary, had over 20,000 hectares of arable land, suitable for sugar cane and strategically located to serve the northern and southern markets of Nigeria.