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It's mostly farmland.
Well, most of the watershed is farmland.
We'll also need to grow more food with less farmland.
Failing to do so is a little like having a thousand acres of fertile farmland and never planting it.
So we could grow more food by expanding farmland, but we'd better not, because it's ecologically a very, very dangerous thing to do.
Family members had bribed officials to interrupt the hereditary transfer of land by having the brothers declared dead, allowing them to inherit their father's share of the ancestral farmland.
In 64 years of running the largest country in the world, the range of the Party's policies has been wider than any other country in recent memory, from radical land collectivization to the Great Leap Forward, then privatization of farmland, then the Cultural Revolution, then Deng Xiaoping's market reform, then successor Jiang Zemin took the giant political step of opening up Party membership to private businesspeople, something unimaginable during Mao's rule.
Set aside farmland.
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.
Soon after meeting with him in 1847, the Calverts bought 2,000 acres of farmland that included part of the hill.
We only have two ways we can feed the world: we can either make our existing farmland a lot more productive, or we can clear cut forest and savannah to make more farmland, which would be environmentally disastrous.
The other bummer going on here with our status quo is that half of all of your poop and pee is going to fertilize farmland.
The South and West became agricultural hubs, and in other parts of the country, suburbs took over farmland.
When we look at the food system as a whole and we implement all the production solutions like regenerative agriculture, and we adopt a plant-rich diet, and we reduce food waste, our research shows that we would produce enough food on current farmland to feed the world's growing population a healthy, nutrient-rich diet now until 2050 and beyond.
Ways of reclaiming overused farmland, so that within two years they can again be productive.
And it's far too easy for governments to stand by while fisheries and farmland are depleted instead of conserved to feed future generations.
Ideally, she can find somewhere with loose, easy-to-dig soil— like farmland already disturbed by human activity.
We use 12 beehives and 12 dummy hives to protect one acre of farmland.
Or if we imagine the New York City metropolitan area, currently home to 12 million people, but 12 million people in the future, perhaps living at the density of Manhattan, in only 36 percent of the area, with the areas in between covered by farmland, covered by wetlands, covered by the marshes we need.
Europe, connecting to the previous point, we're now at probably peak farmland, and, by the way, in terms of population, we are already at peak children being alive.
Likewise, farmland has now peaked, and one of the ways that plays out in Europe is there's a lot of abandoned farmland now, which immediately reforests.
This farmland used to produce good corn crops, even during the Great Depression.
In 1947, it moved farther west from the "Windy City" to a new site on Illinois farmland.
There's also shades of David Lynch's "The Straight Story" in some of the stoic downhome Mid-West morality of the folks depicted here and also in the lovingly haunting shots of the farmland they inhabit.
Makdong's family used to own acres of farmland that are now covered in ugly apartment buildings and now they get by selling eggs to the residents.
To many of Myanmar’s leaders, their country is an economic-power-in-waiting.Home to some 53 million people, it is rich in minerals, natural gas, and fertile farmland, and it occupies a strategic location between India and China.
In Romania, for example, many Roma have less secure farmland tenure than their non-Roma neighbors.
Reform would also help to consolidate farmland, facilitating better agricultural techniques.
Indeed, food prices are currently increasing in Europe, because more and more farmland is being used for bio-fuels instead of for food production.
In Zimbabwe, colonial land ownership patterns that gave most of the viable farmland to white settlers are at least one root of the country's current crisis.
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