Sentences with phrase «percent of agricultural land»

Based on the last government tally, only 1 percent of agricultural land in the United States is currently certified organic, so there is a lot of potential for transition to happen and more money to be had by farmers.

Cotton occupies only 2.4 percent of agricultural land but accounts for 24 percent of global sales of insecticides and 11 percent of pesticides.

From an energetic stand point, the dual use principle of agrophotovoltaics is much more efficient than solely planting energy crops, accounting, after all, for 18 percent of agricultural land use in Germany.

This is a big problem because more than 70 percent of agricultural land is currently being used for livestock production, leaving little room for crops destined for human consumption.

In Brazil, for example, national data from the Censo Agropecuário shows that «family farms» produce 38 percent of national agricultural value from 24 percent of the agricultural land.

That is a lot of land, but an artificial leaf with 30 percent efficiency — which Alivisatos thinks is within reach — would bring the requirement down to just 1 percent of all agricultural land.

Goal No. 2: Convert at least 40 percent of agricultural lands to ecologically sustainable production, with minimized use of agro-chemicals, and expanded use of techniques that reduce soil erosion and run - off and that maintain high levels of biodiversity.

Not exact matches

Now only twenty - seven percent lives in the agricultural sectors of the land.

Currently, only about one percent of global agricultural land is dedicated to organic crops, so there's room for expansion, according to the authors.

According to the Post, currently «only about one percent of global agricultural land is dedicated to organic crops.»

In fifteen countries 10 percent or more of all agricultural land is organic, another new record in the global organic statistics.

The countries with the largest organic share of agricultural land of their total farmland are the Liechtenstein (37.7 percent), French Polynesia (31.3 percent), and Samoa (22.4 percent).

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).

The increasing numbers of commercialized organic operations — which still make up just 3 percent of total agricultural lands — appear to contribute to increased and more intense levels of greenhouse gases coming from each acre of farmland, reports Julius McGee, a doctoral student in the UO sociology department.

«If a quarter of all agricultural land — about 60 million acres — were devoted to energy, we would need a 1 percent efficiency to meet all the transportation fuel needs of the United States,» Alivisatos says.

Although the practice of not tilling the soil (no - till) started in the United States, two other countries, Brazil and Argentina, are the world leaders in no - till, said Rice, adding that 80 percent or more of agricultural land in Brazil and Argentina are farmed using no - till systems.

California's vast agricultural lands — particularly soils heavily treated with nitrogen fertilizers — are now responsible for as much as 51 percent of total NOx emissions across the state, researchers report January 31 in Science Advances.

Illinois, a state with a $ 9 billion agricultural commodities market and 80 percent of its land area devoted to farming (mostly corn and soybeans), could see significant losses associated with fighting — or failing to properly fight — this weed, Hager said.

In agriculture, for example, «If we just bring back 12 percent of degraded land into agricultural production, we could feed 200 million people per year by 2030» while also reducing emissions, Oppenheim said.

In total, exports of meat and other animal products use at least 8 percent of the global agricultural land base.

But during the dry season, when the fields are fallow, evapotranspiration from agricultural land was an average of 60 percent lower than from native vegetation.

A medium deforestation rate, in which 53 percent of the forest is preserved (of the original 70 percent) and the remainder is used as agricultural land and for tea plantations, most closely approximates the ongoing expansion rate of agricultural areas in this Chinese region.

That's why France's wine industry accounts for 3.7 percent of the country's total agricultural land, but utilises 20 percent of the country's pesticide expenditure.

Among the big three agricultural producers, this more - efficient technology is used on 1 - 3 percent of irrigated land in India and China and on roughly 4 percent in the United States.

This 170 percent increase in the amount of land slated for agribusiness, much of it under forest cover, since Myanmar's new government took office, and the additional millions of acres identified as available for agricultural conversion, contradicts national statements purporting to protect Myanmar's remaining forests and land rights.

Over half of India's total agricultural land is unirrigated and is rain fed; climate change is projected to decrease crop yields in unirrigated areas by as much as 25 percent.

In Indonesia, 60 percent of national greenhouse gas emissions come from land - use change, in part, fuelled by the growing demand for palm oil and agricultural crops.

And there was this: «By using a worldwide agricultural model to estimate emissions from land - use change,» Timothy Searchinger of Princeton and other researchers reported in 2008, «we found that corn - based ethanol, instead of producing a 20 percent savings, nearly doubles greenhouse emissions over 30 years and increases greenhouse gases for 167 years.»

According to a report by the Cornell Global Labor Institute, agricultural and rangeland comprise 79 percent of the land that would be affected by the pipeline.

Biofuel production on abandoned lands could meet 8 % of global energy needs (6/23/2008) Using abandoned agricultural lands for biofuel production could help meet up to 8 percent of global energy needs without compromising food supplies or diminishing biologically - rich habitats, reports a new study published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology.

Agriculture accounts for 4 percent of the California economy according to Tom Tomich of UC Davis» Agricultural Sustainability Institute (agriculture also accounts for 8 percent of California energy use, 20 percent of California's land area and more than 40 percent of the state's fresh water use).

Overall the researchers estimate that 20 percent of U.S. carbon emissions could be offset through afforestation, or the conversion of marginal agricultural lands into forests.

Seventy - five percent of the land is in agricultural production, with 62 percent of the soils designated either U.S. Department of Agriculture Prime Farmland or Soils of Statewide Significance.

They say the technological fixes also distract from more challenging social reforms like slowing the rate of population growth, shifting away from crops like corn ethanol that don't put food on the table, or ending subsidies for livestock production, which currently eats up an appalling 75 percent of the world's agricultural land.

Pehin Dato Yahya Bakar, Minister of Industry and Primary Resources of Brunei, committed to limit his country's agricultural footprint to 1 percent of land area while working to improve yields to achieve greater food security — for the purposes of protecting Brunei's tropical forests.

Talia Coria, who heads the office's division in Michoacán, said that nearly 50,000 acres of forest land are converted to agricultural uses each year in the state, and that between 30 and 40 percent of the annual forest loss is due to avocados, about 15,000 to 20,000 acres.

Sixty percent of the 30 million acres of hardwood bottoms once found in the Southeast have already been destroyed to make way for agricultural land and timber tracts.

From 2006 to 2011, 60 percent of Syria's land experienced, in the words of one expert, the worst long - term drought and most severe set of crop failures since agricultural civilizations began in the Fertile Crescent many millennia ago.

SS: The residential sector accounts for 65.2 percent of property transactions in the country, whereas commercial, industrial, institutional and agricultural properties, as well as development land, make up the rest.

About three - fourths of recent land sales were recreational (21 percent); timber / ranch (25 percent); and for agricultural uses (27 percent), according to the report.