Sentence examples for fallow farmlands from inspiring English sources

But the pain and trauma are palpable, as are Ractliffe's rigor and restraint: fallow farmlands are riddled with land mines; trash spills down a ravine and into a slum; clothes hang from a dead thorn tree.

Such "inoculations" could even help bring back fallow farmlands and turn deserts green.

The Land Code Amendment Bill 2000 allowed the state to free large areas of fallow farmlands from customary rights in order to provide land to private sector actors for large-scale oil palm plantations.

"We want to work with him," explained Japfumaneyi Masuko, 43, who is hoping for a sliver of his fallow farmland.

Take one wrong turn on County Roads 402, 405, 408 or 409, and you might still be driving through craggy hills and fallow farmland a day later.

This week, the government announced, the World Bank approved a $5 million loan to support the initial phase of a program intended to redistribute more than two million acres of fallow farmland.

Within a few days of the $5.5 million purchase of the market by a preservationist benefactress (Margaret de Cuevas, who transferred its operating rights to the Peconic Land Trust) and of the development rights to 7.56 acres of currently fallow farmland behind the market (acquired for $2 million by the Town of East Hampton), Mr. Zabar was buzzing around the property like a homing pigeon.

A "Coming Soon" sign still marks the spot on a patch of fallow farmland just outside of Crosby, the county seat, where a 200-person "man camp" to house oil workers was set to be built.

The State considers fallowed farmlands to be abandoned land and hence state property.

Others are fallowing farmland, or digging deeper to tap brackish groundwater, further depleting aquifers.On January 17th Governor Jerry Brown urged Californians to cut water use by 20% and issued a drought declaration, which loosens the rules restricting in-state water transfers.

Knowing the chaos that would be caused by a dried-out sea, the architects of the transfer planned for "mitigation water," achieved by fallowing farmland, to be added to the sea.