Sentence examples for cropland encroachment from inspiring English sources
Barani is the only pastoral area covering 50,000 ha that is protected from cropland encroachment.
In one study, regional scale (7,238 ha) landscape impacts included conversions to cropland and tree encroachment.
Landscape changes occurred at an unprecedented rate with the encroachment of urbanized terrain on cropland, cropland exploitation, and the reclamation of forest and water as the dominant types.
However, a progressive decline in grassland was observed due to the various driving forces (i.e., bush encroachment, drought, expansion of cropland, settlement, construction of water points).
The conversion of the savanna rangelands of Borana to bushland and cropland had began around the early 1970s due to the official ban of fire (Coppock 1994) followed by the expansion of bush encroachment and crop cultivation in the 1980s (Angassa and Oba 2008b).
5.7 million sq km of cropland decline.
China has 104m hectares of cropland.
There was other evidence of Pentagon encroachment.
Sceptics reply that evidence of encroachment abounds.
Houses, hundreds of them, were rising from the cropland.
