The phrase
"new farmland" refers to land that is not currently being used for farming, but has the potential to be used for agricultural purposes in the future.
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Synonyms for individual words can be found below.
«new»
«farmland»
Sentences with «new farmland»
- Most model scenarios make a big assumption: that rising agricultural productivity and vegetable - based diets will limit the need for new farmland. (sciencemag.org)
- While we've just learned that over 80 % of new farmland in the tropics came at the expense of forests, another new study shows us that when it comes to calculating how much carbon tropical forests store, variable on the ground (treehugger.com)
- While we've just learned that over 80 % of new farmland in the tropics came at the expense of forests, another new study shows us that when it comes to calculating how much carbon tropical forests store, variable on the ground conditions make estimating how much sequestration potential forests have more tricky than thought. (treehugger.com)
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