Sentences with phrase «on agricultural land»

About 28 percent have been built on agricultural land and 15 percent have been built in developed areas.

The deterioration of soil on agricultural lands is worldwide.

The results confirmed that less runoff on agricultural lands led to higher concentrations of soil organic carbon.

This aspect indicates that the improvement of landscape infrastructure in combination with organic agriculture may be an important factor for the conservation and enhancement of species - rich communities on agricultural land.

Climate change will modify other processes on agricultural land.

There has been a loss of citrus groves in California, but it largely was due to houses being built on agricultural lands in Orange County, other Southern California locations, and the Silicon Valley.

The global population is currently over 7bn and is forecast to rise to at least 9bn, and potentially up to 12bn, by 2050, which will put more pressure on agricultural land and water sources.

An important advantage, says Pirt, is that the minerals become concentrated in the residual solids, enabling extraction of heavy metals such as cadmium and mercury, which could pose environmental problems in sludge spread on agricultural land.

The studies do find some benefit from biofuels but only when planted on agricultural land too dry or degraded for food production or significant tree or plant growth and only when derived from native plants, such as a mix of prairie grasses in the U.S. Midwest.

European countries have agreed to stop dumping sewage at sea by 1998, but the alternatives — spreading raw sludge on agricultural land or incinerating it — are expensive and could pose environmental risks.

Note 2: Including «Carbon Sequestration on Agricultural Lands «as part of a «Climate Intervention: Carbon Dioxide Removal and Reliable Sequestration» (emphasis added) report is an important win for advocates of soil carbon sequestration: many geologic sequestration proponents have called into question the permanence of soil carbon sequestration as a major issue with these approaches, which the NAS report largely doesn't raise as an issue.

Right now, our province lacks a strategy that ensures we are fully capitalizing on our agricultural land base in a way that grows our economy, improves population health outcomes, and food security.

He also says that the two parties can work together on housing including the idea of building new towns on agricultural land, one of the most credible ways of sharply increasing housebuilding in the south east.

The Town Board liaison to the committee, he said the advisory board recently seemed to want to keep open the possibility of solar farms on agricultural land — though the committee stopped short of making an official recommendation.

That extreme approach showed that 1.5 million crop acres would need to be converted into grassland to meet the targets, if no additional BMPs were employed on agricultural lands.

Just a few millennia after farmers began domesticating crops, weed species had also adapted to survive exclusively on agricultural land

To quantify soil's carbon sequestration potential on agricultural lands, soil scientist Whendee Silver of the University of California, Berkeley, is conducting a first - of - its - kind study on a 539 - acre cattle ranch near Nicasio, California.

Options for new policies included: tightening loopholes that allow land owners to receive farm - class status and lower tax rates while producing only a small amount of food, or strengthening bylaws related to the size of houses on agricultural land.

[11] In 2014, the council voted against an 895 - acre project that would have extended development on agricultural lands east towards the Conejo Grade.

Aberfeldy Bed & Breakfast is situated on agricultural land, some 2 km from the N1 between Pretoria and Johannesburg.

While the study concentrates on agricultural land in the Hudson Valley, its methodology could be replicated in other areas of the region — Connecticut, New Jersey and Long Island — located within New York City's foodshed.

Working with local stakeholders, the project is ensuring local communities appreciate the value of the standing forest and can develop sustainable livelihoods on agricultural land and unprotected areas, reducing illegal encroachment into the newly formed Park.

A promising approach is to build productivity on agricultural lands — another key Ecomodernist idea.

LEGO has started purchasing sugarcane from Brazil — but Brooks said the company ensured it's being grown on agricultural land, «so we're not chopping down rainforest to grow the crop.»

Carbon - removal activities can also trigger emissions elsewhere, such as if planting trees on agricultural land leads to trees being cut down elsewhere to meet growing food demands.

The usufruct rights registered not for family members on agricultural land were canceled in Hungary via legislative changes, from one day to another without compensating the damages.

Katharine has experience in acting for landowners, landlords, tenants and lenders in respect of agricultural property matters including agricultural holdings act advice and proceedings, farm business tenancies, acquisitions and disposals and secured lending on agricultural land and entitlements.

And despite five years of coverage that local press gave to landowner associations in their fight against provincial land - use policies, farmers are incensed to learn that there is such a thing as a Provincial Land Use Policy, and that solar panels qualify as a legal crop on agricultural land.

I mean, we know how the cost of shipping from China has gone way up, and that there is such pressure on agricultural land, we could be approaching peak ginger and yet Michelle's gingerbread designs this year look to be at least twice as big as last.

According to the Minnkota project's federal environmental assessment, most of the line's study area is on agricultural land.

«Ironically the crossing of the «red line» on wetlands probably results from trying to achieve the «red line» on agricultural land,» says Spike Millington, chief executive of the South Korea — based East Asian - Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP), «since any agricultural land taken over for development has to be compensated by an equivalent area of newly created «agricultural» land elsewhere.»

Offering studentships in the area of food security, the research conducted in this centre focuses on the global challenges posed by an expanding population, pressure on agricultural land, climate change and the diminution of scarce resources.

A wind farm near Elizabeth City, N.C., is built on agricultural land that is also used to cultivate crops like corn, soybeans, cotton and potatoes, along with small areas of timberland.

Five new laws — on agricultural land, associations and non-governmental organisations, cybercrime, telecommunications and trade unions — are being drafted by government ministries and are expected to be brought before the National Assembly in the coming term.

We believe that the most appropriate and desirable location for short - term rentals in Santa Barbara County is on agricultural land, all agricultural land, as opposed to residential zoned areas.

Caterpillar manufactures equipment intended to handle toxic sludge, to dump it in landfills and to spread it on agricultural land.

Moderate climate change in the coming decades is projected to increase overall yields by 5 - 20 % on agricultural lands that rely of rainfall, although major challenges are projected for crops that are near the warm end of their suitable range.