6.15pm GMT BCC: It could threaten productivity And that's a hat-trick of employers' groups who don't like the sounds of an increased minimum wage: John Longworth, Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) claims raising base salaries could hurt economic competitiveness - even though the wealth gap is growing.
In Argentina, the area under reduced tillage has increased due to soil erosion that threatened productivity.
"At the moment our performance in maths is weakening our skills base and threatening our productivity and growth.
In Punjab and Haryana, India's breadbasket, this, together with over-farming encouraged by fertiliser subsidies, is threatening agricultural productivity.
By the post-World War II years, verticillium wilt, a fungal disease that attacks everything from strawberries to string beans, was threatening crop productivity.
Poor land management practices in the Ethiopian highlands have caused a significant amount of soil erosion, thereby threatening the productivity of the Ethiopian agricultural system, degrading the health of the aquatic ecosystem, and shortening the life of downstream reservoirs.
Decreasing mobility, as a consequence of insecurity, is threatening rangeland productivity, as has been saliently described by a Maasai elder: when pastoralists are limited in their access to (a few) grazing areas, such areas are overgrazed in semi-arid lands (ISS 2010).
Natural disasters are becoming more frequent and intense, land and water are becoming scarcer, and irregular weather patterns are threatening agricultural productivity.
Recent evenings have seen me, as Geralt, get leathered with a couple of loquacious travelers and wind up significantly lighter of clothes and possessions the next morning (oh, don't worry, I got them back, plus interest); track down and kill a spectral hound that was threatening the productivity of an apiary; and helped a troll decorate his dilapidated military post.
Recent evenings have seen me, as Geralt, get leathered with a couple of loquacious travellers and wind up significantly lighter of clothes and possessions the next morning (oh, don't worry, I got them back, plus interest); track down and kill a spectral hound that was threatening the productivity of an apiary; and helped a troll decorate his dilapidated military post.
