Sentence examples for cropland from inspiring English sources

It has also unleashed a new scramble for oil, minerals and cropland that is accelerating deforestation and fuelling a new wave of land conflicts from Colombia to Chile.

Pyrolysis of forest residues from 200 hectares of timberland, pyrolysis of crop residues from 120 million hectares of farmland, and pyrolysis of fast-growing vegetation from another 30 million hectares of idle cropland could each sequester about ten percent of U.S. annual fossil-fuel emissions.

But in others, the owners felt genuinely aggrieved, sorry to lose fertile cropland that yielded as many as three harvests a year.

Pakistan derives about a fifth of its output from agriculture, and much of its most productive cropland is submerged or turned to bog.

Policies matter, too and the political will to implement them.The central problem facing policymakers is that trees are usually worth more dead than alive; that is, land is worth more as pasture or cropland than as virgin forest.

The economy's vulnerability to the weather is heightened by the fact that less than one-third of cropland is irrigated and that much farming is done at subsistence level without modern technology.

But Kansas is mostly flat prairie, cropland and pasture.

Their 600 cattle had been sold, pasture was overgrown and cropland neglected.

Between 20% and 50% of nine biomes have been transformed into croplands.

There are many other examples.The knowledge and experience of the remaining indigenous people in the tropics can contribute decisively to increasing food production in the tropics—and in ways that will not destroy the croplands within a generation or two.ANTON HAUGEOsloSIR Mr Sachs provides a vivid interpretation of how structural difficulties handicap tropical countries.

More efficient photosynthesis means less evaporation from croplands.