Prolonged winters, advancing glaciers, colder summers, more frequent storms and extended cloudiness
reduced arable land, shortened growing seasons, rotted grain in wet fields, and brought -LSB-...]
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.
While recent policy interventions (such as the Good Agricultural and Environment Condition requirements of the CAP, and the EU Soil Thematic Strategy) have
reduced the rate of soil loss in the EU by an average of 9.5 % overall, and by 20 % for
arable lands, the study finds that four million hectares of EU croplands have unsustainable rates of soil loss (more than 5 tonnes per hectare per year).
This could further
reduce livestock and hurt the few crops the region grows (only 1 percent of Mongolia is
arable land).
More than 40 percent of China's
arable land is suffering from degradation, official news agency Xinhua said,
reducing its capacity to produce food for the world's biggest population.
The need is dire: Dependence on wood for cooking and heating has
reduced the amount of forest cover from a healthy 25 percent at the beginning of the 1900s to less than 8 percent today, causing flooding, erosion, and landslides that have destroyed homes and
arable land.
Much research has been conducted to show that you can conserve services for humans (water,
arable land, flood control, etc.), which help
reduce poverty, and conserve biodiversity.
This would
reduce growing seasons and eliminate some of the
arable land area in northern latitudes across Canada, Europe and China.
Many observers have warned that using
arable land to produce crops for biofuels has
reduced surfaces available to grow food.