Sentence examples for impoverished landscape from inspiring English sources

Landowners were subsidized to sustain and develop their land; this made it possible for the Origos to turn La Foce from a derelict, impoverished landscape into a self-sufficient economy.

The premise is grim, but Mr. Salles, whose two previous films, "Central Station" and "Midnight," were set in the violent, impoverished landscape of contemporary urban Brazil, has a way of infusing the most terrible stories with an honest, openhearted romanticism.

The hourlong drive to Punta Hermosa provides a sobering look at the arid and impoverished landscape in this part of the country: brown hills devoid of vegetation and pocked with sad clusters of wooden shanties.

You cannot have a wealthy country and an impoverished landscape.

Each domain shared a set of interventions for biodiversity-based agriculture and ecological intensification that could also increase food security in the impoverished landscapes.

Pollen is the main protein and lipid source for honey bees (Apis mellifera), and nutritionally impoverished landscapes pose a threat to colony development.

Mycorrhizas 'scavenge' P from solution or 'mine' insoluble organic N. Cluster roots function in severely P-impoverished landscapes, 'mining' P fixed as insoluble inorganic phosphates.

This is consistent with the high degree of specialization to soil types that seems to characterize old, nutrient-impoverished landscapes in southwest Australia and elsewhere [ 56].

Other inadvertent introductions have been far from benign; some have severely impoverished the landscape.

"The animal needs to be culled regardless of who shoots it," says Stewart. "If the local community can derive benefit from the animal that is shot, it's a direct injection into an impoverished rural landscape".

Yet it is clear that we increasingly make do with an impoverished language for landscape.