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.
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).
A lot of Chilean vines are grown at the limits of arable land, and up in the high ground, candelabra cactuses, avocado groves and granite cliffs jostle with the trim vineyards; at Errázuriz the massive bulk of Aconcagua, the world's highest mountain outside the Himalayas, is just round the corner.
"The lives he recounts are bleak in the extreme, and run their course in an isolation that reveals our image of close-knit, neighborly rural life as the wishful thinking that it is," Katha Pollitt wrote in The New York Times in 1979 in a review of Mr. Harnack's novel "Limits of the Land".
Mr. Harnack wrote novels and short stories as well as memoirs and other nonfiction, including three novels about small-town life in Iowa: "The Work of an Ancient Hand" (1960) and "Love and Be Silent" (1962), as well as "Limits of the Land".
Starting in 1960, a substantial decline in the rate of growth compared to Bergen County occurred as Teaneck reached the limits of developable land, and the township neared its peak population.
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.
But I've been in business journalism for some years and have constantly bumped hard up against the limits of my land-grant, liberal arts education.
(How can people write such stuff with a straight face?) He points out: "I've been in business journalism for some years and have constantly bumped hard up against the limits of my land-grant, liberal arts education".
