Sentences with phrase «use arable land»

Even if you don't burn corn, biomass must use arable land, monoculturally.

· Seaweed farming is one of the most environmentally friendly types of aquaculture: It uses no arable land, freshwater, chemical treatments or fertilizers.

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

Not exact matches

China reportedly has 10 % of global arable land and uses over 30 % of global fertilizer.

With its stabilized rice bran, RiceBran Technologies has created a second crop and food source without increasing the use of arable land or water.

It's better to have land that is both arable and that can be used for grazing,» he said.

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.

In stabilized rice bran, RiceBran Technologies has created a second crop and food source without increasing the use of arable land or water.

Assarts were bits of land cleared from the forest for arable uses.

While emphasizing that the south west holds the future of food security in Nigeria, Governor Ambode said the available massive arable and fertile land had placed the region on a sound footing to use agriculture not only to grow the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the region but also to ensure food availability for the country.

Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday described the south west region as the next frontier of food security in Nigeria, revealing that an Agric Master Plan that would facilitate the effective use of the massive arable and fertile land in the region would soon be developed.

Yet farming and ranching already exact a daunting toll on the environment: burn down rain forests to create more arable land, dump fertilizers onto fields that run off and choke life in rivers and oceans, emit volumes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, use up vast stores of freshwater for irrigation.

With less than 2 % of European arable land currently used to grow grain legumes, Reckling and co-workers created a model to determine the effects of integrating legumes into cropping systems.

His excellent chapter on that continent's problems points out that only 32 per cent of potentially arable land is actually used at present.

Furthermore, the arable land used for farming dropped by one quarter over the 56 - year period, and investment in heavy farm equipment and other capital expenditures decreased by 12 percent.

These findings can also be illustrated in other aspects of resource use: the team found the highest rate of increase in the cultivation of arable land to be in the 1950s; the peak for human - made irrigation areas then followed in the 1970s, and the peak for nitrogen fertilisers was subsequently in the 1980s.

How many acres of arable land do their energy and water use policies take out of commission every year?

I'm catching up with a great package of reports, commentary and analysis in the July 28th edition of the journal Nature on the challenging, but entirely doable, task of feeding roughly 9 billion people by midcentury (and doing so without using up the last patches of arable land).

Food supply has not collapsed (1.5 billion hectares of arable land are being used, but another 2.7 billion hectares are in reserve).

The fact is, the U.S. only uses 1/3 of its arable land.

We only use 1/3 of our arable land.

The natural variation that has led us out of the Little Ice Age has a bit of frosting on the cake by land use; and, part of that land use has resulted in a change in vegetation and soil CO2 loss so that we see a rise in CO2 and the CO2 continues to rise without a temperature accompaniment (piano player went to take a leak), as the land use has all but gobbled up most of the arable land North of 30N and we are starting to see low till farming and some soil conservation just beginning when the soil will again take up the CO2, and the GMO's will increase yields, then CO2 will start coming down on its own and we can go to bed listening to Ave Maria to address another global crisis to get the populous all scared begging governments to tell us much ado about... nothing.

- This later translates into one of the main drivers behind land - grabbing in other continents (usually in developing countries in Africa, but also Latin America and Asia) and huge extensions of arable land used to grow these new cash - crops as opposed to feeding the world.

It's basically the same old thing using a marginally more available feedstock that still requires arable land to produce.

For comparison, 174 000 km2 of land was used for arable crops, livestock, and fallow land.

Bailey said that Brazil's biofuel programme would be less controversial than America's, as the price of sugarcane is not strongly correlated to the world prices of staple foods and Brazil had extensive arable land not being used to full capacity.