Sentences with phrase «require land conversion»

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The «conversion» of the peoples of that small portion of the earth's land surface which lay north of the Mediterranean and west of the Dnieper Valley (for by 1350 only the fringes of Europe east of that valley had begun to be touched) had required nearly a thousand years.

The lower land - use efficiency of organic systems means that «large - scale conversion to organic would likely require bringing more natural habitats into agricultural production,» with a potentially severe impact on global biodiversity due to the loss of rainforests and other currently wild areas.

Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program to provide incentives in the form of emission allowances for activities undertaken in the agriculture sector that reduce GHG emissions or sequester carbon, including activities that prevent conversion of land that would increase emissions.

This would require the clearing of forest and grassland for food production, with associated emissions from land conversion.

Re 418 Brian Dodge — Between 1997 and 2007 US farmland declined by ~ 33 million acres [1] = ~ 51,563 mi ^ 2 ~ 133,546 km ^ 2 ~ 1.7 to 1.8 % of US excluding Alaska ~ 1.07 TWe for 10 % efficient conversion of 200 W / m2 to electricity with 1 m2 of panel per 2.5 m2 of land (* roughly * the «fuel equivalent» of all U.S. energy use, though there are some uses of fuel that would require more electricity to replace than that proportionality)

Less is More on Intake Forms Intake forms and website landing pages that require only the consumer's contact information had a higher conversion rate, ranging from 10 to 35 percent.