Sentences with phrase «worlds arable lands»

It is said that Africa holds up to 15 % reserves of the worlds arable lands.

Not exact matches

As urban sprawl encroaches on the world's arable land, and environmental disasters send food prices soaring, innovators are seeking to take agriculture off the farm.

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.

He calls attention, as experts increasingly are doing, to the deterioration of the world's resources in arable land and forests and to the pollution of air and water by pesticides and waste products.

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.

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

Much of the world's arable land is already committed to producing food, feed or fiber, let alone fuel.

The food industry, for example, may end up fighting the biofuel industry for access to arable land as the world runs short of water, warns Peter Brabeck, Nestlé's chairman and chief executive.

OVER the past forty years, the world has lost nearly a third of its arable land — because of accelerated soil erosion due to farming and other activities.

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.

More than 40 percent of China's arable land is suffering from degradation, official news agency Xinhua said, reducing its capacity to produce food for the world's biggest population.

China has long struggled to feed one - fifth of the world's population on 7 % of the world's arable land.

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.

Some other statistics: About half of the world's tropical forests have been cleared (FAO) Forests currently cover about 30 percent of the world's land mass (National Geographic) Forest loss contributes between 6 percent and 12 percent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions (Nature Geoscience) About 36 football fields worth of trees lost every minute (World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-RRB- Rain Forest Threats, Rain Forest Species More than half of Earth's rain forests have already been lost forever to the insatiable human demand for wood and arable world's tropical forests have been cleared (FAO) Forests currently cover about 30 percent of the world's land mass (National Geographic) Forest loss contributes between 6 percent and 12 percent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions (Nature Geoscience) About 36 football fields worth of trees lost every minute (World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-RRB- Rain Forest Threats, Rain Forest Species More than half of Earth's rain forests have already been lost forever to the insatiable human demand for wood and arable world's land mass (National Geographic) Forest loss contributes between 6 percent and 12 percent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions (Nature Geoscience) About 36 football fields worth of trees lost every minute (World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-RRB- Rain Forest Threats, Rain Forest Species More than half of Earth's rain forests have already been lost forever to the insatiable human demand for wood and arable World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-RRB- Rain Forest Threats, Rain Forest Species More than half of Earth's rain forests have already been lost forever to the insatiable human demand for wood and arable land.

This could mean less fish in the sea for food and less arable land for crops, as well as many more conflicts in the world to control dwindling resources.

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.

Or the greatest contiguous stretch of arable farm land in the world (which conveniently happens to be adjacent to those navigable rivers I mentioned.

Concerning global warming: a warmer world is to be welcomed because it means higher humidity levels, a shrinkage of deserts, more arable land, and a longer growing season all of which mean more food production.

- 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.

Consider that a pretty hefty percentage of the world lives at subsistence and draw you own conclusions as to the effects of converting arable land into biofuel production.

BECCS may need about a third of the world's arable land to capture enough carbon to keep the temperature from rising above two degrees.

Either the world will continue to heat up, or a complex series of climate changes could tip us over into a sudden new ice age - one so severe, suggests Peter Schwartz, co-founder of the Global Business Network consultancy, that the planet's remaining arable land would only be able to support a mere two billion people.

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

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.