Sentence examples for limit of land from inspiring English sources

Having reached the limit of land suitable for agriculture, forests are being cut down at the rate of 66m hectares (165m acres) a year to create more cropland, mostly for industrial farming.

Some farming households have gradually broken away from the limits of land that provides sustainable livelihoods, and are aware of the threat of geological disasters, carrying out spontaneous relocation.

Government agencies and nonprofit organizations use restrictive covenants to preserve open space, farmland, historic structures, and wildlife habitats and to limit uses of land that contains hazardous materials.

The reason is that having reached the limit of arable land worldwide, our only option is to figure out how to increase yields on land already being cultivated.

Whereas the natural tendency was for populations to grow without end, food supply would run up against the limit of finite land.

Today, the highest village settlement is found at about 4,500 to 5,000 feet above sea level, at the upper limit of cultivated land.

And its Constitution limits ownership of land as well.

In many regions, however, expansion of extensive production has approached its limits because of land degradation and lack of available rangelands (Bruinsma 2003).

Through analyzing the measured loads of the landing gears, weight of the jet and the limit load of landing gears, the system could be verified.

The word "takings" is used to describe government action to limit the use of land, with minimal or no compensation.

"If you limit the amount of land that can be used for housing, there is no surer way of getting higher home prices," he said.