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Arable in sentence

66 examples of Arable in a sentence

Do not use arable land.
It's extreme green, it's sustainable, alternative and renewable and it meets the big three at GRC: Don't use arable land, don't compete with food crops, and most of all, don't use fresh water.
Only seven percent of arable land in Africa is irrigated, compared to 40 percent in Asia.
In addition, for a synthetic forest, you don't have to build it on arable land, so there's no competition with farmland or food, and there's also no reason to have to cut down any real trees to do this.
Now we know that our arable land per capita is already on the decline in both developed and developing countries.
It has some unfarmed arable land remaining, but not much, India is quite land-constrained.
Now, the African continent, on the other hand, has vast amounts of arable land remaining and significant upside potential in yields.
Turn it into a square that stands for all the arable land on Earth.
If you move the dots down to the bottom of the rectangle you can see that the cities for the existing three billion urban residents take up only three percent of the arable land on earth.
We'd go from three percent of the arable land, to four percent.
Nineteen million hectares of rainforest are lost every year to create new arable land.
Same idea: series of semi-independent city-states, little blobs of metropolitan stuff with arable land around, joined to one another by railway.
That's the Sahara eating up almost [two meters] a day of the arable land, physically pushing people away from their homes.
The world is likely to lose one third of its arable land by the end of the century.
Potable water, arable land, rainforests, oil, gas: they're going away, and they're going away soon, and unless we innovate our way out of this mess, we're going away too.
The average chemical fertilizer use in sub-Saharan Africa is 12.5 kilograms per hectare of arable land, compared to the world average of 102 kg/hectare.
Since 2006, between 15 and 20 million hectares of farmland, the equivalent of the total arable surface of France, have been the subject of negotiations by foreign investors.
We end deforestation and the destruction of arable land.
According to some estimates, Russia could increase its arable area by 10 million hectares, and its crop yields by 250%, thereby boosting grain exports dramatically.
Even though India has more arable land than China – 160.5 million hectares compared to 137.1 million hectares – Tibet is the source of most major Indian rivers.
Commodity prices are soaring worldwide, not only for headline items like food and energy, but for metals, arable land, fresh water, and other crucial inputs to growth, because increased demand is pushing up against limited global supplies.
This year’s snowmelt caused landslides and flooding – a warning of more soil erosion and destruction of arable land to come; hundreds died and thousands lost their livelihoods.
With technologies like cloud computing, soil sensors, and weather drones changing how food is produced, packaged, and distributed, digital literacy is as important as arable land and high-quality seeds.
But rapid urbanization is driving up industrial fossil-fuel consumption and household water consumption, and is increasing demand for food in areas where arable land is scarce.
Africa is endowed with 60% of the world’s unused arable land and millions of dedicated farmers.
Moreover, producers of foodstuffs (such as Argentina and Uruguay), which suffered for decades, are now gaining from notable biogenetic innovations that increased arable land area.
Long-term estimates project that over a 50-year time horizon, most of the planet’s arable land would have to be used to feed the world and for forest conservation.
India will not have enough arable land, irrigation, or energy to provide enough nutritious food to India’s future 1.7 billion people if 35-40% of food output is left to rot.
Moreover, 60% of the world’s unused arable land is in Africa, which still contributes a meager share of worldwide agricultural exports.
Only 4% of arable and permanent cropland is irrigated, compared to 39% in South Asia and 29% in East Asia.
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