Sentence examples for Depleted land from inspiring English sources

From the beginning, the idea was to create a pilot project that could serve as a model for re-greening deforested and depleted land across Brazil.

While farmers are loath to give up productive farmland, Mr. Rashin and his partner, José Luis Álvarez, have persuaded many to reforest depleted land that would have produced meager corn crops by providing these families with free trees.

In Agadez, Niger, a hub for human smugglers bringing migrants across the border to Libya and then into boats across the Mediterranean, one pilot project is paying 100 young men €100 per month to help restore 500 hectares of depleted land.

A blue-ribbon panel of scientific and technology advisers to President Obama warns that the nation risks losing its longstanding supremacy in food production because research in agriculture has not kept up with new challenges like climate change, depleted land and water resources and emerging pests, pathogens and invasive plants.

"After a few years of trying to survive, settlers start selling off". Cattle ranchers, spreading herds thinly on depleted land, or big soybean growers who can afford chemical fertilizers then move in.

To help lift the Tennessee Valley out of the Great Depression, TVA built dams for flood control, provided low-cost power and commercial shipping, restored depleted lands, and raised the standard of living across the region.

Environmentalists and landfill operators see a rapidly depleting land resource that may soon be harder to find than a buyer for a high-priced apartment.

Most Americans care about the environment, and yet, as Bittman rightly notes, "of all the changes you can make to your diet, eating fewer animal products has the most dramatic impact on the health of the planet" because eating meat is a top cause of global warming, depletes "land, water, energy, [and] mineral resources," requires 80percentt of all antibiotics produced in the U.S., and more.

Among the five other Goldman Prize winners this year is Jesus Leon Santos of Oaxaca, Mexico, who helped establish land-use programs "employing ancient indigenous practices to transform depleted soil into arable land," and Puerto Rico's Rosa Hilda Ramos, who organized her community to protect a wetlands from industrial pollution.

Once habitat is lost, tilling and irrigation of the land depletes soil nutrients and erodes topsoil.

But an overloaded agricultural system has depleted the land's carbon content and its replenishment is vital in the face of climate change.