Sentence examples for large-scale encroachment from inspiring English sources
A decline in summer farming practices, during the twentieth century, has caused a large-scale encroachment of trees and shrubs leading to extensive landscape changes and decreased biodiversity.
Encroachment of large-scale agricultural schemes is among the emerging issues for the loss of customary practices in the case of Afar pastoralists.
Questions were centred around historical background of land grabbing, factors that led to the encroachment of large-scale agriculture, LSFs involved in the process, and spatial and temporal patterns of the phenomenon.
The current wave of agricultural investment in the marginal rangeland of Sudan posts new challenges, especially the encroachment of large-scale agriculture which has been identified as a major contributor to conflict in many parts of the country (Pantuliano 2007).
The encroachment of a large-scale livestock facility near homes is significantly disruptive of rural living.
You still see pockets of traditional architecture in other Caribbean islands, but Providencia has had no encroachment from chain hotels or large-scale developments and, no doubt helped by its Unesco designation as the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve, it still looks raw and inviting.
The kingdom's prosperity declined with the suppression of the slave trade, and, as its territorial extent shrank, Benin's leaders increasingly relied on supernatural rituals and large-scale human sacrifices to protect the state from further territorial encroachment.
Encroachment of Great Plains grasslands by fire-sensitive woody plants is a large-scale, regional process that fragments grassland landscapes.
In light of these characteristics of modern farming, we suggest that zoonotic risks may be greatest in landscapes where large-scale production units are in close proximity to traditional, small-scale production and to wildlife populations through encroachment of agricultural production into recently deforested natural habitats.
Ah, large-scale ecclesiastical patronage.
