Sentence examples for converting lands from inspiring English sources

Climate change mitigation through land management could also impart unintended environmental and social costs that affect the most vulnerable sectors of society, for example from converting lands in subsistence farming to large scale carbon plantations, or by restriction of fuel wood harvest for domestic uses.

"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.

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.

"So for palm oil to be sustainable, the process of allocating and converting land needs to be controlled.

Our results highlight the sub-watersheds where the vulnerability of water resources are highest and OCs of converting land uses to foster watershed service provision are lowest.

The estimated OCs of converting land use/land cover to the benefit of water quality can range between 4,000 to 5,000 BRL per hectare each year for agricultural systems and less than 100 BRL for pasture land.

We conclude first that there is substantially less potential additional cropland than is generally assumed once constraints and trade offs are taken into account, and secondly that converting land is always associated with significant social and ecological costs.

This term refers to newly converted lands from its current use (forest or pasture land) to crop production.