Sentences with phrase «reduce available land»

The planet is plagued by fighting, since Titans call every day and reduce available land to live on.

Add to that the looming specter of growing crops for biofuel, which reduce available land for food, feed and fiber production, he said: «Biofuel is going to be an unmitigated disaster, that's as true in an African village as it is in Iowa.»

As the population grows we need more land to grow crops to feed ourselves and that adds to climate change which in turn poisons our oceans with acid rain and reduces the available land for agriculture.

Not exact matches

Reducing food losses & food waste (FLW) is a key global challenge to ensure sufficient and healthy food into the future, and to use available arable land as efficiently as possible.

To the free trade dogma, Graham adds the «free market dogma [which] has given Australia the duopoly of Woolworths and Coles who have driven farmers from the land by reducing profit margins for producers to miniscule levels and requiring them to use every technical device available to maximise yields.»

Grants available for the development of new or improved control tools and technologies to help farmers and land managers reduce the harmful impacts of established pest animals and weeds.

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- The Legislature's budget - writing committee voted Thursday to reduce by $ 26 million a year what is available to be spent on Wisconsin's primary program to protect land from development and preserve it...

When introducing the state spending plan in January, Governor Andrew Cuomo stated in a memoranda of support in his executive budget that reducing setbacks, «would maintain a safe distance for engaging in the sport while making available for hunting more lands in suburban areas, which would increase hunting opportunities, and help manage locally overabundant deer populations.»

Given that most fishes convert feed to flesh much more efficiently than cows, as well as producing healthier food and contributing less methane to the atmosphere, an alternative would be to reduce beef production and instead use available land to grow crops for fish feed.

Did you not understand that clearcut land leads to greater erosion and severely reduces the number of trees that maximize the available moisture in a geographical area and improve the climate in a cooling rather than warming direction?

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So anthropogenic land use changes (which are strongly biased toward deforestation and desertification) tend to raise the temperature observed at thermometer shelters around the world, while at the same time they tend to reduce the amount of energy available to warm the atmosphere above the surface.

New policies will go a long way at reducing deaths of humans, animals, and plants from forest fires, and dramatically lower the costs of forest management while increasing the amount of forest land available for recreation and harvesting.

It also fails to take into account that a warmer earth will see an increase in deserts and other arid lands, reducing the area available for crops.»

We are blessed with abundant wood resources that provide more than 2/3 of all potentially available biomass, including forest residue from timber harvests and forest thinning that improves forest health by reducing fuel loads on eastside dry land forests.

A new report «Mapping REDD + and Land Use Financial Flows in Brazil» by research organizations Forest Trends and IDESAM shows how over US$ 2.2 billion in REDD + funds have been used by Brazil to implement deforestation policies, and highlights new ways to make these investments more effective at reducing emissions, including by making payments directly available to the stakeholders who are implementing the deforestation policies such as subnational governments, farmers, local communities and indigenous Peoples of the Amazon.

Many observers have warned that using arable land to produce crops for biofuels has reduced surfaces available to grow food.

Not only do they greatly expand the area available for wind farms, they also have the potential to dramatically reduce the cost of offshore wind generation, which today is more than twice as expensive as that from turbines on land.

The scheme, introduced under the Native Title (State Provisions) Act 1999 («NTSPA»), the Native Title (State Provisions) Regulations 2000 («NTSPR») and amendments to the Land Administration Act 1997 («LAA»), would have reduced the procedural rights available to native title claimants over significant areas of land to a right to be notified, rights to make an objection and the right to consultations in good faith following an objectLand Administration Act 1997 («LAA»), would have reduced the procedural rights available to native title claimants over significant areas of land to a right to be notified, rights to make an objection and the right to consultations in good faith following an objectland to a right to be notified, rights to make an objection and the right to consultations in good faith following an objection.

The amendments to the NTA deny and reduce the procedural rights available to native title holders in relation to a broad range of future commercial or government developments on native title land.

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