Because of the relative decline of agriculture since the 1960s, Spain's rural population decreased and many farms disappeared.
If farming disappeared, the landscape would change and maintenance would disappear as farmers are also de facto landscape police, getting payments to repair the dry stone walls, the hedgerows or the stiles that make Snowdonia such a magnificent ramblers' retreat.
Money for roads to increase farming disappeared in billion-dollar corruption scandals.
Farm structures have been modified substantially, and the number of holdings have been greatly reduced since 1955, numerous small farms disappearing.
As farms disappear beneath these barren forests, villages empty and there is no one left to speak out for the birds, which are forced out too.
Unable to compete, an estimated 90,000 small and family farms disappear each year.
As small farms disappear, well, you can connect the dots... .. Six "learning center" tables offered a feast of delicacies for the 100+ participants, creating a happy grazing haven.
Beckerman worries that as family farms disappear and industrial farms grow bigger and more specialized, farmers with fields that may seem large several hundred acres are struggling, and may turn to hemp without fully understanding the plant or the risks associated with growing it.
Armstrong: Yes, we've seen a consolidation and emptying of small farms from the countryside -- about 90% of American farms have disappeared since 1970.
Along with a number of other towns and scattered farms, it disappeared beneath the detritus of an eruption of Mount Vesuvius on Aug. 24, A.D. 79.
