Sentences with phrase «with arable land»

With arable land in retreat and water supplies falling, crop yields were already in decline in many areas, while malnutrition rates were rising — precisely the conditions witnessed in more extreme forms in the famine - affected areas today.

Critics of organic agriculture argue that society can not justify being less efficient with arable land in the face of a rapidly growing human population.

Buhari said that with the current challenge, the country must harness its natural resources like agriculture and solid minerals to survive, being a country blessed with arable land, endless swathes of grasslands and forest.

Not exact matches

«This forecast is in line with medium - term supply demand fundamentals including the transition to more balanced diets, urbanization and a push to increase crop yields due to less arable land,» TD economist Sonya Gulati said.

China must somehow meet the demands of this new normal by feeding 19 % of the world's people — and feeding them better every day — with just 7 % of the world's arable land.

Environmental water policies that show greater concern for bait fish than for food production, combined with years of drought, have strangled area farmers to the point that much of the arable land is returning to its natural semi-arid state.

The need to produce more agricultural products with less water and arable land will tempt a modernizing China to engage in crash programs of high tech farming that will prove radically unsustainable.

Arable land is covered with concrete at the rate of three football fields each minute.

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

Holland Malt believes the plant is one of the largest and most modern barley storage and malting facilities in the world with the potential to produce over 130,000 t of malt per year by the processing of 165,000 t of malting barley and other grains from the surrounding 30,000 ha of arable land.

The data revealed considerable variation across countries in the European Union, with the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland and Sweden) and Austria utilising in excess of 5 percent of arable land.

In contrast to these huge organic animal production properties, smallholdings characterize organic arable lands (with few exceptions).

At the conclusion of their book, For the Common Good, Herman Daly and John B. Cobb Jr. find hope in thinking that «on a hotter planet, with lost deltas and shrunken coastlines, under a more dangerous sun, with less arable land, more people, fewer species of living things, a legacy of poisonous wastes, and much beauty irrevocably lost, there will still be the possibility that our children's children will learn at last to live as a community among communities.»

According to the report, with little arable land and scarce water supplies, the region is one of the top food importers in the world.

With only 6 percent of the world's total water resources and barely 9 percent of the arable land, China nevertheless must feed 21 percent of the world's population.

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.

Its drain on the earth's resources is enormous: it claims 70 percent of all freshwater taken by our species and more than 40 percent of the planet's solid surface (nearly all the arable land), with attendant casualties in biodiversity.

«Or status is key if it brings you preferential access to arable land and livestock in a land - limited society with rigid rules of inheritance.»

With only 7 % of the world's arable land feeding more than 20 % of the world's population, part of the solution is through PPI's ag - biotechnologies.

We would also welcome work with conservationists of endangered, barberry - dependent insect species to ensure that planting of common barberry occurs away from arable land, thus safeguarding European cereals from a large - scale re-emergence of wheat stem rust.»

With a population of 1.3 billion, China is under immense pressure to convert suitable areas into arable land in order to ensure a continued food supply for its people.

Our planet is expected to host an extra two billion people by 2050, but the amount of arable land we've got to work with won't be changing all that much.

China's government admits that 19.4 % of arable land is contaminated with heavy metals, while the region which is high enough to produce hardy and nutritious roots, the Yunnan region, is exempt from many national pollution limits.

At the dawn of the 21 st century, with unprecedented population growth and its ensuing competing demands for water, arable land, housing, education, and economic development, spatial analysis has become more critical.

Feral cats running amok with tractors have degraded up to 40 % of the arable land in China.

These are lined with tall palm tress and give way to arable land, grazing Bali Cows, the occasional private Bali luxury villa and otherwise vast paddy fields and small Balinese communities.

The map above shows the largest population growth in areas that are projected to have huge problems with water and arable land by 2050.

We identified as most promising measures: the promotion of organic inputs on arable land instead of grassland, the introduction of perennials (grasses, trees) on arable set - aside land for conservation or biofuel purposes, to promote organic farming, to raise the water table in farmed peatland, and — with restrictions — zero tillage or conservation tillage.

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).

Natural resources would be severely depleted and arable land exhausted in a futile effort to keep up with the population explosion.

The United States alone would require six times its arable land — and 75 percent of the world's cultivated land — to supply its needs with ethanol made from corn, according to calculations by Vaclav Smil, an energy expert at the University of Manitoba.

When the earth's temperature rises on average by more than two degrees, interactions between different consequences of global warming (reduction in the area of arable land, unexpected crop failures, extinction of diverse plant and animal species) combined with increasing populations mean that hundreds of millions of people may die from starvation or disease in future famines.

With climate change leading to further decreases in already scarce resources like arable land and water, poor populations are going to be pushed further to, or even over, the edge.

Drought might be an even bigger problem than heat, with some of the world's most arable land turning quickly to desert.

With falling water tables, eroding soils, and rising temperatures making it difficult to feed growing populations, control of arable land and water resources is moving to center stage in the global struggle for food security.

With food scarcity driven by falling water tables, eroding soils, and rising temperatures, control of arable land and water resources is moving to center stage in the global struggle for food security.

«We're in a fairly volatile time from a macroeconomic perspective with Europe, but when you really look at our industry and the population increasing while arable land is decreasing, we ultimately think that over the medium term there are lots of opportunities.»