The phrase "agriculture settlements" is not correct in standard written English; it should be "agricultural settlements." You can use it when referring to communities or areas where farming and agriculture are the primary activities.
Example: "The archaeological team discovered ancient agricultural settlements that provided insight into early farming practices."
Alternatives: "farming communities" or "agricultural communities."
In both cases, river basin development facilitated commercialization of agriculture, settlement in floodplains, and industrialization.
Further expansion of planted forests in China is increasingly constrained by land availability due to the limited land resources and the continuous competition with other land uses, such as agriculture, settlement and infrastructure development.
Human modification of the landscape (e.g., forest clearing, agriculture, settlement expansion and early industry) in periods of low to moderate precipitation appears to have been the greatest cause of high biomass burning during the late Holocene in southern Levant, while wetter climate apparently reduced fire activity during periods of both low and high human activity.
There is also evidence of secondary urban areas losing population to the 'former homeland' and 'commercial agriculture' settlement types, but this does not hold for metropolitan areas.
Land used for agriculture or settlements has been rendered unusable for many decades and retrieval of infrastructure is mostly impossible.
The fast and uncontrolled expansion of industries, agriculture and settlements in developing countries implies a definite need to develop strategies for effective land management.
It is particularly applicable in areas where insufficient land for agriculture and settlements is resulting in high rates of conversion of natural forest and grasslands.
The town was proclaimed in 1869, its name coming from an Aboriginal word for honeysuckle; the land was cleared for agriculture, and settlement began shortly thereafter.
As the centuries passed, however, the monsoons became less frequent and the floods less intense, creating stable conditions for agriculture and settlement.
