Sentence examples for usable land from inspiring English sources

In 11 countries less than half the usable land is farmed.

Landholding is almost as unequal as in colonial times: 1% of farms have half the usable land.

But the relocation of more than a million people for the Three Gorges Dam has been plagued by corruption, social conflict and the shortage of usable land.

House prices soared in places like coastal California, where a scarcity of usable land and tight regulations on new construction have limited building.

The gap between rich and poor, as well as between ethnic groups competing for abundant resources but dwindling usable land, is frightening.

The city-state has built upward — with apartment buildings reaching as high as 70 stories — reclaimed underused properties for housing and pushed out coastlines for more usable land.

And while crops that feed people cover just 4% of the Earth's usable surface (land that is not covered by ice or water, or is bare rock), animal pastureland accounts for a full 30%.

The findings were grim: Hurricane Matthew impacted nearly 30percentt of the nation's usable agricultural land.

We have already degraded 2 billion hectares of usable soil, about 15percentt of the earth's land area, and roughly 30percentt of the world's crop land has been rendered unproductive.

The rationale was that the Hook had already been defaced, so why not finish the job, make a nice road along the Hudson, create more usable park land and earn money for other parks at the same time.

The peninsula is extremely mountainous, with steep cliffs and precious little usable flat land.