The phrase "converting land" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the process of changing the use or purpose of a piece of land, such as from agricultural to residential.
Example: "The city is focused on converting land to create more green spaces for the community."
Alternatives: "converting property" or "transforming land use".
"This increases pressure on converting land for plantations," said Lisa Curran of Stanford University.
"We cannot afford to ignore the consequences of converting land for biofuels.
It can take three to four years to recover the costs of converting land to silvopasture.
The French government announced at the start of this year that it was halving a tax break for small farmers converting land to organic production.
Beyond the heating effects of carbon dioxide and the other greenhouse gases, there are the effects of converting land from one use to another and filling parts of the sky with soot and smog.
See articleIndia's finance minister said that biofuels and speculators were responsible for soaring food prices and criticised the practice of converting land use from food to palm oil production.
Before the 1998 public lands law, the government often converted land to private hands through land exchanges.
Not only does this human activity convert land directly, but it also leads to the suppression of fire, especially near people's homes.
Or it might lead to more greenhouse gases and create extra pressure to convert land to farm fields to feed these hungry microbes.
In this study we applied a simulation-based ROA model to evaluate a landholder's decision to convert land from agriculture to biomass.
According to definition of externalities, externalities of rural urban land conversion are the sum of nonmarket externalities and market externalities during land conversion process excluding owner of converted land.
