These specialists recognized that such crops could reduce deforestation by increasing crop yields on less land, moderate overuse of synthetic insecticides, decrease dependence on irrigation through drought-resistant crops, and greatly reduce soil erosion through no-till farming.
A six-day tour organized by Classic Journeys blends adventure and nature in Costa Rica, where one-quarter of the nation is made up of national parks, wildlife refuges, marine sanctuaries, national reserves, conservation areas and biological reserves, which protect the land from overuse.
We end up overusing land for cars — and overusing cars too.
It assumes that the 21st century will be shaped not just by competitive economic growth, but also by potentially disruptive scarcities -- depletion of minerals; desertification of land; pollution or overuse of water; weather changes that kill fish and farms.
bPressure on land means overuse of agricultural land, and also high/increased demand of land for agriculture.
The sinking of land, resulting from the overuse of groundwater, has been a problem exacerbated by the exploitation of natural gas near Niigata city.
The sinking of land, resulting from the overuse of groundwater, and the decentralization of the city of Ōsaka have created other problems.
The discussed disadvantages of the use of biomass for energy production such as food insecurity, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and biodiversity loss from land use, change or overuse of water and soil are taken into consideration in all new research projects.
One major contributing factor to land degradation is the overuse and misuse of irrigation water (Anderson, 1994).
"It represents the idea of stripping the land that has been overused, overdeveloped and overfarmed," Ms. Remen said, "basically raped of all of its life".
