Sentences with phrase «require hectares»

Not exact matches

(Older versions also required a density of at least 70 shade trees per hectare; this was dropped in 2009.)

Further, another study2 mentioned in the impacts report recommended the criteria should be changed to require at least 10 more native tree species per hectare than the local baseline of highly disturbed areas, since even technified «sun» coffee farms had 35 tree species.

Ambode said, «The state - of - the - art rice mill will be sited in Imota, Ikorodu, and it requires 32,000 hectares of land for cultivation of rice paddy.

Sumatran tigers face many challenges to their continued existence in the wild, where they require a home range of 25,000 hectares.

Simply to maintain that sad state of affairs would require the clearing (read: deforestation) of 900 million additional hectares of land, according to Pedro Sanchez, director of the Tropical Agriculture and Rural Environment Program at The Earth Institute at Columbia University.

-- More than one - fifth of the calories grown in farm fields are ultimately traded, which also required about 20 % of the world's croplands (~ 245 million hectares).

These're - exports» from European Union countries require over 9 million hectares of cropland in other regions.

«The nearly 4 million hectares of Sabah's forests are a kaleidoscope of many different habitats and management histories, which required a wall - to - wall mapping effort to truly quantify the amount of carbon they contain,» Asner explained.

Now the 40 hectares of land (the grounds were the former hunting estate for the Lao royal family) require 50 Lao staff and a team of scientists and botanists.

(2) Irrigating 1 hectare [just under 2.5 acres] in dry climates requires quite a bit of water, which means reasonably high flow rates, which... implies depth limits.

One scenario required 6.9 billion hectares of plantation, fed by 570 million tons of nitrogen each year, and even the smallest theoretical plantation would have extended over a billion hectares and consumed 96 million tons of nitrogen fertiliser every year.

Under continuation of current extensive agricultural practices about 1 billion extra hectares of cropland [that's a lot — the size of the US, a lot more than the planet has on offer] would be required, resulting in extra annual GHG emissions around 3 gigatonnes of CO2 equivalents.

Conserving soils and restoring hydrological stability would require roughly another 100 million hectares located in thousands of watersheds in developing countries.

In addition, because electric motors can be 2 — 3 times more efficient than internal combustion engines, PV can result in 200 — 300 times more useable energy for vehicle transport than bioenergy per hectare (although fully realizing this potential will require battery production to become more energy efficient).

To meet the state's 2050 GHG reduction goals, however, will require solar arrays be constructed on some 65,000 to 97,000 hectares of California desert.

made some calculations based on an average of 15 of the studies for the Commission and they found out that «Satisfying the EU's demand alone will require an additional 4.5 million hectares of land by 2020» or the area roughly equal to the size of Denmark.»

• Biodiesel production using soybean required 27 % more fossil energy than the biodiesel fuel produced (Note, the energy yield from soy oil per hectare is far lower than the ethanol yield from corn).

This combination will provide Australia with E85 for most petrol powered vehicles (including Hybride electrics and light aircraft) for the cost of 1.2 million hectares of tropical land covering much of the motive power required, and Solar power for 90 percent of Austlia's electricity consumption for the cost of 700 square kilometres of land covered with CSP collectors.

With global demand for food projected to increase by 50 % before 2030, we will need an additional 120 million hectares of agricultural land to support the required food production.

up to 1 hectare of land for each 300 dwelling units proposed for residential development, as may be specified by by - law in accordance with section 42 (3) of the Planning Act, provided that in no case shall the amount of land required to be conveyed for park or other public recreational purposes exceed the equivalent of 25 % of the land proposed for development.

a.ii that the required parkland conveyance for residential developments was the greater of (1) five per cent of the proposed development, and (2) one hectare per 300 dwelling units proposed.

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