"A lot of the A-listers didn't realise what it was about," she says, contrasting favoured candidates being parachuted into the Commons with her own experience of standing in two unfavourable seats before landing a safe one.
Due to dwindling arable land and ongoing unfavourable climatic changes, the need for sustainable intensification of agriculture has gained considerable urgency (The Royal Society 2009).
The selective force exerted by water scarcity combined with unfavourable harsh environmental conditions in arid lands enriches the rhizosphere of beneficial bacteria that exhibit antagonistic activity against phytopathogens and promote plant resistance to drought [ 16, 18].
General Douglas MacArthur's Operation Cartwheel began with spectacular victories in the landing at Lae and the landing at Nadzab but then faltered in the face of inclement weather, unfavourable terrain, and above all tenacious and aggressive Japanese opposition on land and in the air.
Partly to blame, he says, is the government's austerity agenda, which has forced cash-strapped councils to sell off land to developers, often at unfavourable terms for the public.
This infantry revolution began when the crossbow spread northward into areas that were peripheral to the economic, cultural, and political core of feudal Europe and where the topography was unfavourable for mounted shock action and the land too poor to support an armoured elite.
Small olive farms typically find it hard to compete with their larger competitors due to unfavourable conditions in terms of labour costs, land fragmentation and structural capital.
The 23m-odd population is large for the country's arable land, and the weather is often unfavourable: late-summer floods in 2006 and 2007 caused widespread damage.
Where land is in a rain shadow, in areas of unfavourable geology (e.g., raised coral reefs), and near cities and small ports, thorny bush, succulent shrubs, and scrawny grassland prevail.
Yet this constellation challenges the modern agricultural practice and human adaptive capacities if sustainable land-use is to be achieved despite the unfavourable boundary conditions (nutrient, humus).
