Sentence examples for expansion of crop from inspiring English sources

Unlike the green revolution, which was spurred on by rapid yield gains, the force behind the oil crop revolution was expansion of crop area.

This is because this modification allows more flexibility in the expansion of crop land (i.e. irrigated and rainfed land can expand in different proportions) relative to when a single type of crop land is represented, which counters the effect of rising marginal costs for the expansion of irrigated land.

The decline in grazing areas has also partly been contributed by expansion of crop cultivation on productive wetlands and loss of range productivity.

The expansion of crop cultivation is attributed to interventions by the Government of Uganda and development partners to promote food security in the sub-region.

Expansion of crop cultivation (66%) especially around the eastern part (Sumaila LGA) of the reserve is one of the key drivers of forest resource degradation in the study area.

While Coppock (1994) and Angassa and Oba (2008) argue that expansion of crop cultivation into pastoral areas has constrained mobility by removing the most productive lands from the grazing herds and has eroded pastoralist populations.

The expansion of crop-based biofuels has encouraged competition between food and biofuel production as agricultural resources increasingly shift toward crops that serve as biofuel feedstock, contributing to the recent increase in food prices.

Agriculture has replaced the Jalca, especially in the upper zones of the Andes showing an upward expansion of crops.

Campaign group Global Witness works extensively on the cycle of tropical deforestation, finance and land grabbing issues, and the expansion of crops like palm oil and rubber is never far away.

They supported research suggesting that the E.P.A. had overestimated the expansion of crops into tropical rain forests and said farmers were getting better crop yields off the same land than the models had acknowledged.

LB: The most catastrophic thing from the point of view of the monarch butterfly has been the expansion of crops that are planted on an unbelievably wide scale throughout the Midwest and have been genetically manipulated to be resistant to the powerful herbicide Roundup.