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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.
There is now widespread agreement on the need for increased donor financing for small farmers (those with two
hectares
or less of land, or impoverished pastoralists), which is especially urgent in Africa.
Four million
hectares
of forest disappear every year in Africa – double the world average.
These resources feed armed insurgents, criminal bands and, increasingly, provide the lifeblood for many small peasants, who cultivate some 130 thousand
hectares
of coca plants.
The Fund, by delivering financial and technical assistance to people and places that need it the most, has helped create more than nine million
hectares
of new protected areas – a region larger than Portugal.
To meet global demand for 7.2 million metric tons of chocolate annually, multinationals like Hershey rely on millions of cocoa farmers, each of whom farms a tiny plot, often 1-2
hectares
(2.5-5 acres).
Meanwhile, acreage used for poppy and marijuana production has risen, according to the US government, to 6,900 and 8,900 hectares, respectively.
In fact, even as China persists with its fast-paced dredging, which has already created more than 1,200
hectares
of artificial land, US officials insist that the South China Sea issue should not be allowed to hijack Sino-American relations.
The report shows that since 2000, investors or state bodies in rich or emerging countries have bought more than 83 million
hectares
(more than 200 million acres) of agricultural land in poorer developing countries.
Globally, an estimated two billion
hectares
(4.9 billion acres) of land has been deforested or degraded.
Indeed, an estimated 218-990 million
hectares
would have to be converted to switchgrass to sequester one billion tons of carbon using BECCS.
Then there are the CO2 emissions from producing synthetic fertilizers; clearing trees, shrubs, and grass from hundreds of millions of
hectares
of land; destroying large reservoirs of soil carbon; and transporting and processing the switchgrass.
Over the last two decades, such crop varieties have been cultivated on more than 1.5 billion
hectares
by more than 17 million farmers in some 30 countries – without disrupting a single ecosystem or causing so much as a stomachache.
To regain the more than 200,000
hectares
of irrigated land that is lost to cultivation annually, scientists have enhanced the salt tolerance of crops as diverse as tomatoes and canola.
As part of the New York Declaration on Forests, signed in 2014, governments pledged to restore hundreds of millions of
hectares
of forests.
Today, productive forests cover an area of more than a billion hectares, or about one-quarter of the world’s forested land.
And the average British farm is 41 hectares, compared to New Zealand’s 250-hectare farms.
Senegal under Wade has succeeded in irrigating only 15% of a planned 250,000 hectares, and now imports some 80% of the rice that it consumes.
Desperate for any assistance at all, Bolivia's governments ultimately uprooted thousands of
hectares
of peasant crops--and got almost nothing in return but a lot of phony slogans about alternative development.
His analysis shows that if, for example, the Indian state of Rajasthan were to copy other states and waive formal loans for land holders with less than two hectares, this would cost 117.4 billion rupees ($1.7 billion).
So far, about 3,500
hectares
have been planted with trees or put under improved soil-management practices.
Reforesting another 14,200
hectares
could cut the concentration of sediment in the watershed by half.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), if current trends hold, by 2050 the world’s arable land will increase by some 70 million hectares, and much of the new farmland will be on areas that are currently forested.
According to one study, between 1965 and 2004, farmers in developing countries who planted high-quality seeds were able to reduce farmland by almost 30 million
hectares
– an area roughly the size of Italy.
Every year, we lose 14.6 million
hectares
(56,000 square miles) of forests – an area almost four times the area of Switzerland.
Information released by the government of Brazil indicates that deforestation of the irreplaceable forests of the Amazon, due to factors such as agricultural conversion, reached 2.6 million
hectares
(roughly 10,000 square miles) in the past year, bringing the total deforested area of the Amazon to 17%.
For example, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the World Bank have helped Brazil’s government kick-start an initiative that established over 17 million
hectares
(69,000 square miles) of new forest-protected areas such as national parks.
Since the leaders first met in 1999, 3.5 million
hectares
(more than 13,000 square miles) of new protected areas have been established in the Congo Basin.
Securing indigenous rights to land is one of the most effective ways to curb deforestation, but the Peruvian government is sitting on unprocessed claims to 20-million
hectares.
Food supply has not collapsed (1.5 billion
hectares
of arable land are being used, but another 2.7 billion
hectares
are in reserve).
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