Sentences with phrase «of global hectares»

All of these materials and wastes are then individually translated into an equivalent number of global hectares.

The ecological footprint is a methodology used to measure the amounts of land and water (in terms of global hectares — gha) that would be needed to support domestic consumption.

Not exact matches

Rice - produced on 163m hectares, around 12 % of the global arable area - has one of the greatest plant carbon footprints because it produces a lot of methane.

Treasury Wine Estates adds to Australian footprint with Wetherall Coonawarra buy Treasury Wine Estates has bought 283 hectares of vineyard in Australia's Coonawarra region to feed global demand for i...

Almost haft of the global organic agricultural land is in Oceania (27.3 million hectares), followed by Europe (23 percent; 13.5 million hectares), and Latin America (12 percent; 7.1 million hectares).

MH Premium Farms, the Australian agricultural operation of global fund manager Sir Michael Hintze, bought the 2573 hectare undulating farming and grazing country.

The region has an 18 percent share, or 6.8 million hectares, of global organic farmland.

In July, MH Premium Farms, the Australian agricultural operation of global fund manager Sir Michael Hintze, bought Deltroit Station, a 2573 - hectare property near Gundagai.

«This means farmers are now harvesting more rice per hectare, which not only lifts them out of poverty, but it is contributing towards the world - wide challenge of feeding the estimated global population of 9 billion people in 2050,» said Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Kevin Rudd.

According to this study, the global area of land under certified organic agriculture in 2002 was 17.8 million hectares of which:

Less than half of the global 18 million hectares of certified organic land is dedicated to arable agriculture.

Those few country examples alone suggest a global certified organic land area in excess of half a million hectares than publicly available figures.

In 2005 the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, which monitors the state of the world's forests every few years, reported that 13 million hectares of global forests are lost annually, including 6 million hectares of what are described as primary forests - some of the most biologically diverse ecological systems in the world.

Storing the carbon associated with global warming proved the most remunerative of the ecosystem services, providing roughly $ 378 of value over every hectare — despite a relatively low assumed price of carbon of $ 2.50 per metric ton.

Unfortunately, the mealybug is equally capable of traveling via a human vector — and it is now devastating the cassava (aka manioc or yucca) crop on some 200,000 hectares in Thailand, where some 60 percent of global exports (worth $ 1.5 billion) are grown, according to the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), a Colombia - based research nonprofit focused on reducing hunger and poverty via sustainable agriculture.

Global rates of tropical deforestation have increased over the last two decades, particularly in Southeast Asia, which lost approximately 32 million hectares of forests between 1990 and 2010.

The team says halving global consumption of animal products by eating more insects or imitation meat would free up 1680 million hectares of land — 70 times the size of the UK.

The research team, led by Gregory Asner of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, used innovative remote sensing technology on aircraft to survey the impact of invasives on more than 220,000 hectares (850 square miles) of rain forest on the island of Hawaii.

In all, we found that the rate of forest loss from gold mining accelerated from 5,350 acres (2,166 hectares) per year before 2008 to15, 180 acres (6,145 hectares) each year after the 2008 global financial crisis that rocketed gold prices.»

The United States is the biggest alfalfa producer in the world, with 11.9 million hectares that means 41 % of the global market.

With humanity's ecological footprint of 2.7 global hectares (gha) per person means to say that to sustain the current population on Earth of 7 billion people would take 18.9 billion gha (2.7 gha x 7 billion people) which is higher than the 13.4 billion global hectares (gha) of biologically productive land and water on Earth, a fact that indicates that already exceeded the regenerative capacity of the planet in the average level of current world consumption.

Whereas five types of surface (cultivated areas, pastures, forests, fisheries and built environment), planet Earth has approximately 13.4 billion global hectares (gha) of biologically productive land and water according to 2010 data from the Global Footprint Network and humanity's ecological footprint reached the milestone of 2.7 global hectares (gha) per person in 2007 for a world population of 6.7 billion people on the same date (according to the UN)[See Article A terra no limite (Earth in the limit) by José Eustáquio Diniz Alves available on the website < http://planetasustentavel.abril.com.br/noticia/ambiente/terra-limite-humanidade-recursos-naturais-planeta-situacao-sustentavel-637804.shtglobal hectares (gha) of biologically productive land and water according to 2010 data from the Global Footprint Network and humanity's ecological footprint reached the milestone of 2.7 global hectares (gha) per person in 2007 for a world population of 6.7 billion people on the same date (according to the UN)[See Article A terra no limite (Earth in the limit) by José Eustáquio Diniz Alves available on the website < http://planetasustentavel.abril.com.br/noticia/ambiente/terra-limite-humanidade-recursos-naturais-planeta-situacao-sustentavel-637804.shtGlobal Footprint Network and humanity's ecological footprint reached the milestone of 2.7 global hectares (gha) per person in 2007 for a world population of 6.7 billion people on the same date (according to the UN)[See Article A terra no limite (Earth in the limit) by José Eustáquio Diniz Alves available on the website < http://planetasustentavel.abril.com.br/noticia/ambiente/terra-limite-humanidade-recursos-naturais-planeta-situacao-sustentavel-637804.shtglobal hectares (gha) per person in 2007 for a world population of 6.7 billion people on the same date (according to the UN)[See Article A terra no limite (Earth in the limit) by José Eustáquio Diniz Alves available on the website < http://planetasustentavel.abril.com.br/noticia/ambiente/terra-limite-humanidade-recursos-naturais-planeta-situacao-sustentavel-637804.shtml >].

Cuilcagh Mountain Park takes in 2500 hectares on the northern slopes of Cuilcagh Mountain, at the heart of the Marble Arch Caves Global Geopark.

South Korea rounds out the bottom of the list with a 5.19 global hectares per person deficit.

Canada is the most environmentally friendly major economy and tops the list with 7.42 global hectares per person of surplus.

According to Global Forest Watch, the country lost 16.88 million hectares of rainforest between 2001 and 2013, a chunk of forest nearly the size of France.

To ease global food crisis, rice with submergence tolerance is needed: -2007 Bangladesh Tista / Jamuna Rivers flooded million hectares up to 3 weeks; cyclone Nargis flooded 1.75 M Irawaddy - grain supply affected by population growth, diversion of grain to biofuels and to livestock as more people eat meat - funding contraints on R&D - crippled developing world extension systems

It ensures the conservation of 39,000 hectares of valuable Miombo forest, creating a vital buffer for Lower Zambezi National Park, as part of a trans - frontier conservation area of global significance that is home to 23,000 elephants.

Their findings showed a startling 218 - 990 million hectares of land would have to be converted to switchgrass (which is 14 - 65 times as much land as the US uses to grow corn for ethanol); also 17 - 79 million tonnes of fertiliser a year — which would be 75 % of all global nitrogen fertiliser used at present; and 1.6 - 7.4 trillion cubic metres of water a year.

Whether it's the destruction of rainforest shared by elephants and orangutans in Sumatra to produce palm oil; reports linking fast food giants to the burning of tropical forests in Brazil and Bolivia; or the hundreds of thousands of hectares of tree cover loss per year in West Africa — the world's forests are being razed to sate global demand for -LSB-...]

New breeding lines derived from MAS, either in entirely new or recombined genetic backgrounds or in the background of rice mega-varieties that are already planted to millions of hectares, could potentially alleviate the negative effects of climate change on rice production due to global warming.»

note 47, p. 16; sequestration per tree calculated assuming 500 trees per hectare, from UNEP Billion Tree Campaign, «Fast Facts,» at www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign, viewed 10 October 2007; growing period from Robert N. Stavins and Kenneth R. Richards, The Cost of U.S. Forest Based Carbon Sequestration (Arlington, VA: Pew Center on Global Climate Change, January 2005), p. 10.

(A global hectare is a hectare of global average productivity.)

Upper chart: Global average land area (in million hectares) in drought recovery for first year of each decade from 1901 to 2001.

Despite the high value to society of intact forests, only about 290 million hectares of global forest area are legally protected from logging.

Global Footprint Network's most recent accounts reveal that Earth's biocapacity in 2008 was 12 billion hectares (ha) compared to humanity's Footprint of 18.2 billion ha, and that the average Ecological Footprint had reached 2.7 global hectares (gha) per capita compared to only 1.8 gha of available biocapacity per capitGlobal Footprint Network's most recent accounts reveal that Earth's biocapacity in 2008 was 12 billion hectares (ha) compared to humanity's Footprint of 18.2 billion ha, and that the average Ecological Footprint had reached 2.7 global hectares (gha) per capita compared to only 1.8 gha of available biocapacity per capitglobal hectares (gha) per capita compared to only 1.8 gha of available biocapacity per capita [5].

Global analysis has found more than two billion hectares of land that could benefit from restoration.

While India as a whole demands a significant percent of the world's biocapacity, its per - capita Ecological Footprint, 0.8 global hectares, is smaller than that in many other countries, and well below the world average of 2.2 global hectares.

In Ecological Footprint accounts, the «carbon Footprint» measures the amount of biological capacity, in global hectares, demanded by human emissions of fossil carbon dioxide.

The commitments come from Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guatemala, and Uganda, among others, and more than doubled the number of hectares contributing to achieving the Bonn Challenge — a global goal [continue reading...]

note 22, p. 16; sequestration per tree calculated assuming 500 trees per hectare, from U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP), Billion Tree Campaign, «Fast Facts,» at www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign, viewed 10 October 2007; growing period from Robert N. Stavins and Kenneth R. Richards, The Cost of U.S. Forest Based Carbon Sequestration (Arlington, VA: Pew Center on Global Climate Change, January 2005), p. 10.

Global land degradation is now so severe that hundreds of millions of hectares of land need to be restored back to health.

The fact that organic agriculture systems also absorb and retain significant amounts of carbon in the soil has implications for global warming, Pimentel said, pointing out that soil carbon in the organic systems increased by 15 to 28 percent, the equivalent of taking about 3,500 pounds of carbon dioxide per hectare out of the air.

Although the rate of global net forest loss slowed down from an average of 7.3 million hectares per year in the 1990s to 3.3 million hectares per year in 2010 — 2015, deforestation remains a matter of deep concern.

(06/14/2010) Late last year Indonesia made global headlines with a bold pledge to reduce deforestation, which claimed nearly 28 million hectares (108,000 square miles) of forest between 1990 and 2005 and is the source of about 80 percent of the country's greenhouse gas emissions.

Drawdown's yield model calculates total annual global supply of crops and livestock products based on their area of adoption in each of the three scenarios, and global yield impacts of each solution (including both gains due to increased productivity per hectare and losses due to reduction of productive area due to adoption of non-agricultural solutions, e.g., loss of grazing area due to afforestation of grasslands).

Global population divided into global land surface area means each person has about 2.1 hectares (a square of land 145 meters on a side) to supply their every need... and that «every need» is the problem with this idea which puts forward the possibility that we could all feed ourselves happily on our personal Global population divided into global land surface area means each person has about 2.1 hectares (a square of land 145 meters on a side) to supply their every need... and that «every need» is the problem with this idea which puts forward the possibility that we could all feed ourselves happily on our personal global land surface area means each person has about 2.1 hectares (a square of land 145 meters on a side) to supply their every need... and that «every need» is the problem with this idea which puts forward the possibility that we could all feed ourselves happily on our personal patch.

To keep up with global food demand, the UN estimates, 6m hectares (14.8 m acres) of new farmland will be needed every year.

With buyers for Asia's immense new middle class already starting to outbid EU food importers, the start of recurring global crop failures — when there are few surplus stocks being traded — will impact the UK particularly hard, as it has an exceptionally high population per hectare of its farmland.

From 2000 - 2013, Argentina has lost nearly 4.7 million hectares of forest, according to the Global Forest Watch.