Sentences with phrase «uncultivated land»

Malaysia is converting forests into palm oil farms so rapidly that it's running out of uncultivated land.

It is now clear that the federal corn ethanol mandate has driven up food prices, strained agricultural markets, increased competition for arable land and promoted conversion of uncultivated land to grow crops.

Furthermore, when previously uncultivated land, including tropical forests, is brought into cultivation, large amounts of carbon are released from the soil, worsening the carbon dioxide balance.

The group calculate that 4.1 to 6.9 million hectares of uncultivated land will have to be cleared to grow crops for biofuel and to feed the EU.

Since the early Nineties, southern regions in Italy have experienced chronic issues of illegal disposal of urban waste, mainly due to easy access to uncultivated land, presence of caves and sovereignty of mafiosi — to use a general definition that encompasses mafia, camorra, «ndrangheta and other networks.

Researchers like Vaughan worry that without strong regulations, surging demand for bioenergy could displace food crops — causing prices to rise — or push farmers into uncultivated lands.

To be sure, there are vast acreages bordering the semiarid areas which never should have been applied to crop growing, at least until the uncultivated lands of the humid regions, already provided with natural and social facilities for a more comfortable existence, had been more fully utilized.

Not exact matches

The land may previously have been uncultivated or used for some other crop, perhaps food.

Around the edges of south eastern towns, perfectly good agricultural land often remains uncultivated as a result of price distortions created by the Metropolitan Green Belt.

By comparing soil taken from 31 uncultivated prairie sites, such as cemeteries and national parks, with soil from agricultural land, Fierer's team identified microbes that probably inhabited the untouched prairies but were later lost.

The idea of the uncultivated native leaving a virgin land to be conquered is a false historical narrative that prevails until today.

Any person who without the written permission of the landowner, the owner's agent, or the person in lawful possession of the land, willfully enters any lands under cultivation or enclosed by fence, belonging to, or occupied by, another, or who willfully enters upon uncultivated or unenclosed lands where signs forbidding trespass are displayed at intervals not less than three to the mile along all exterior boundaries and at all roads and trails entering the lands, is guilty of a public offense.