Sentence examples for total land use from inspiring English sources

Agriculture, particularly meat and dairy products, accounts for 70% of global freshwater consumption, 38% of the total land use and 19% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, says the report, which has been launched to coincide with UN World Environment day on Saturday.

Two scenarios are designed that vary the external demand for the total land use, and alter more or less quickly the specific location factors that drive the landscape pattern.

Under the constraint of 427.56 km2 available industrial land resources, the electronic and power industries have the most significant impact on total land use, if the scale of power industry exceeds 1.27 billion USD, the probability of land resource capacity breakthrough will be 50%.

In crude analysis, total land use of usual diet was inversely associated with all-cause mortality (HR of highest versus lowest quartile: 0.74 (0.66-0.82)) (Table  4).

This caution is notable, because the odds ratio, though statistically unstable, was elevated for the highest average annual nitrate-N levels in homogeneous supplies and for total land use.

For total land use (the sum of residential, commercial, and pesticide fractions), odds ratios were slightly elevated for nearly all categories compared with the lowest land use fraction (adjusted OR = 1.4; 95% CI 0.8 2.4 for highest compared with lowest).

U.S. farmers planted about 169 million acres of these GE crops in 2013, or about half of total land used to grow crops.

Mexico, where corn occupies half of the total land used for growing crops, has lost most of its farms over the last 10 years, bringing havoc to the rural economy, forcing mass migration to the cities, bringing ruin and unemployment.

They boast of greater productivity, without compromising natural habitats (the percentage of total land used for agricultural has remained constant at 45% since 2000 in the US, according to the World Bank) or endangering public health.

About half of the total land used to grow crops in the U.S. was planted with GMOs in 2013, according to a USDA report.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that 6 billion hectares of biomass -- that's four times the total land used today to grow all the world's food -- would be needed to match our fossil fuel use.