The phrase "agricultural conversion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions related to changes in land use, farming practices, or the transformation of agricultural systems.
Example: "The region is undergoing agricultural conversion as farmers shift from traditional crops to more sustainable practices."
Alternatives: "land use change" or "farming transformation".
Pressure from population growth and agricultural conversion are also destroying coral and forest habitats, creating conditions favourable to disease transmission.
In terms of biodiversity, agricultural conversion nearly always has large impacts.
In Florida, loss of native prairie has resulted from agricultural conversion to tame pastures and citrus groves.
In tallgrass prairie, agricultural conversion of pastures and hayfields into rowcrops also is a major threat to grassland birds.
Because many of the factors related to the biodiversity costs of agricultural conversion are unknown, researchers did not make a calculation.
Southern populations, especially those in the conterminous United States, are threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation from logging and agricultural conversion, and many individuals are victims of vehicle strikes or are captured in traps meant for other species.
The majority of agricultural conversions occurred on private lands, while most herbicide treatments occurred on BLM rangelands,.
The remainder seems likely to suffer small-scale incursions in the form of shifting cultivation and other agricultural conversions, but, for the foreseeable future should remain largely intact.
Many countries have implemented conservation payment programs for agricultural land conversion to counter this trend.
In recent decades, there has been a relentless march of deforestation caused by agricultural expansion, conversion to pastureland, infrastructure development, destructive logging, and fires.
All three steps — a halt to agricultural land conversion, connecting dispersed employment centers with alternative transit, and encouraging downtown development — are needed to create renewed, civic-minded corporate workplaces and, in the process, move toward sustainable cities.
