Sentence examples for lost cropland from inspiring English sources

If we don't confront this challenge now, we will leave future generations with even more destroyed homes, lost cropland, and crushed livelihoods.

Currently, CRP enrollment on over 25,000 ha of playas has returned 0.2 Tg C (95% CI: 0.1 0.3), only half the historic SOC lost by cropland conversion within CRP playas.

Cropland systematically avoided gaining from woodland and woodland systematically avoided losing to cropland, suggesting that woodcutting for charcoal and firewood collection is the major proximate cause of decline in woodland.

But in others, the owners felt genuinely aggrieved, sorry to lose fertile cropland that yielded as many as three harvests a year.

A reorientation of the farming system was observed, a shift in which cropland lost importance with regard to grassland, the use of scrubland became marginal and forestry increased.

The cesium-137 and fly ash data suggests that cropland lost significant sediment, fly ash and cesium-137 to erosion process especially from the upper and lower backslopes and footslope.

The amount of lost biomass in croplands alone is equivalent to 120 million bushels of wheat, or 13% of what the United States exported in 2013, the team reports.

US ethanol production drives overseas destruction of our best carbon-storage systems - forests - to replace US croplands lost to ethanol.

Gemechu (2010) noted that some households converted croplands that had lost crop production potentials to Eucalyptus plantations in different parts of Ethiopia where Eucalyptus could grow.

Most households and farmers involved in the focus group discussion explained that much of the expansion of croplands and the lost of forest cover took place during the 1970s and 1980s.

Though highly variable globally, the amount of reactive N added yearly onto cropland that is subsequently lost to the environment remains high.