Sentences with phrase «productive land around»

She would regret, I'm sure, the sorry example the United States sets with its enormous per capital appropriation of productive land around the worked for it s consumption — ten times that of developing countries.

We know from evidence gathered all over the productive lands around the fast Arabian desert (long ago the historian J. H. Breasted designated this area as the Fertile Crescent) of a widespread eruption of desert peoples, Semitic nomads, into the more sedentary areas.

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This leaves the farmer with the choice to remove and replant, or use valuable land and resources to keep the less productive tree around.

«I believe these properties are excellent investments given the surrounding areas around Armidale are versatile and highly productive farming land as well as offering an important educational hub,» she said.

As farmers move to cities in search of higher paid work, and that typically is only around $ 2 - $ 3 per day, large areas of land have become less productive.

And that would have given the angiosperms the energy to push competitors like conifers out of the canopy around 150 million years ago, making angiosperms the most productive group of land plants in the world.

So he started out by replanting the land according to a system of natural succession — eventually reforesting the entire area and turning it into an incredibly biodiverse yet productive working farm which, it's claimed, has actually altered the microclimate around it in the form of increased rainfall and lower temperatures.

With sea level changes, it is the increasing number of countries and islands around the world where the sea levels are now overunning land once liveable and productive that tell the story properly.