He suggested the government "start off with, talking to the developers who own the agricultural land" and then speed up approvals to develop the agricultural land.
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As some agricultural land will inevitably shift, maintaining forest and savanna areas will require reforestation of abandoned agricultural land or restoration to other natural or semi-natural ecosystems.
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Under Zimbabwe's constitution all agricultural land belongs to the government.
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For example, the replacement area could eliminate important agricultural land.
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The Kidman lands are about 2.5 percent of Australia's agricultural land.
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Less than 13% of all agricultural land is controlled by women.
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In Niger, for instance, just 0.2% of agricultural land is irrigated.
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The pressure to produce more crops has transformed the agricultural land.
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It encompasses programs to conserve agricultural land and enhance agricultural productivity.
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Australia introduced a register of foreign ownership of agricultural land in 2015.
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The loss of agricultural land has compounded the humanitarian plight of civilians.
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Strained agricultural land may have also led to collapses in crop yields.
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ISIS is also taxing agricultural land, and levying 10 percent on poultry.
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Villagers fear the canal will destroy what remains of their agricultural land.
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The scheme promised depositors returns on investments in agricultural land, the regulator said.
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They disproportionately affect poor countries, where many eke livings from vulnerable agricultural land.
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"Agricultural land that was flooded will be cleansed and damage compensated," he said.
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Peat is burned as fuel, and is highly prized as agricultural land when drained.
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And hundreds of thousands of acres of forest and agricultural land have been scorched.
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He says the rules, aimed at preserving agricultural land, simply won't permit a winery.
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"Look at the size of the encroachments on agricultural land," Sisi said in September.
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Nearly 40% of agricultural land has soil that is too acidic for decent yields.
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There are no restrictions on foreign buyers, except when it comes to agricultural land.
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Nearly 40% of agricultural land has soil that is too acidic for decent yields.
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Yet British firms own 7% of Australia's agricultural land, without apparently damaging the national interest.
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What agricultural land remained also had degraded after being left uncultivated for almost 10 years.
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The floodwaters have swamped over 100,000 hectares of agricultural land, damaging standing crops, it said.
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Khuzestan lies in the Fertile Crescent, with more than one million hectares of agricultural land.
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Venkatachary said "sada bainama" transactions constitute 5 to 10 percent of agricultural land in most villages.
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Klong Sai Pattana is a 160-hectare plot owned by the Agricultural Land Reform Office (ALRO).
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A vegan diet placed as the fifth-most efficient in terms of agricultural land carrying capacity.
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Whites, just 9% of the 56 million population, still own more than 70% of agricultural land.
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Up to 70% of the delta's agricultural land could be subject to saline intrusion this century.
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The sale price includes subterranean water rights, which are essential for agricultural land, Mr. Ridgway said.
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It comes down to a shortage of agricultural land; in other words, a shortage of water.
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Obaid proudly shows us a photograph of his home, a large farmhouse surrounded by agricultural land.
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Globally, nearly 30 percent of all agricultural land produces food that is ultimately lost or wasted.
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Today's Silicon Valley was carved out of a rich agricultural land of apricot and almond orchards.
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Early this year, the government rejected a bid by a China-led consortium to buy Australia's S. Kidman & Co, the country's largest agricultural land owner, concluding the offer for Kidman and its agricultural land, about the same size as Ireland, was not in the national interest.
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Communities were cutting down trees for agricultural land, but as a result the biosphere took a knock.
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That might mean better valuing city gardens and parks, which support more biodiversity than heavily agricultural land.
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Hopes that Ukraine's market for agricultural land would be thrown open to foreign investors have been dashed.
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The Indus River supports nearly three-quarters of Pakistan's total irrigation of agricultural land, according to Stratfor.
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A good deal of new construction will take place on agricultural land where water is already allocated.
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More than 480,000 hectares (1.2 million acres) of agricultural land Thailand have been hit, the department said.
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The director said the company agreed to reduce debt levels through asset sales such as agricultural land.
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Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota are home to some of the richest agricultural land anywhere in the world.
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Whites - nine percent of the 56 million population - still own more than 70 percent of agricultural land.
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Radar is an agricultural land management company, holding some 280,000 hectares in farms in eight Brazilian states.
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The company also owns commercial properties in Seattle and agricultural land, including a vineyard, in eastern Washington.
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The projectiles landed in an area that includes agricultural land and a factory, according to the statement.
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Indeed, research suggests that the price of agricultural land already incorporates the expected impact of climate change.
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His goals include rezoning agricultural land for commercial use and increasing the minimum size of residential lots.
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Chapecoense was founded in 1973 in Chapecó, a quiet, industrial city of 393,000 surrounded by agricultural land.
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And while women provide 80 percent of Kenya's farm labor, they own 1 percent of agricultural land.
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Miller and his team collected data on trees on agricultural land in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda.
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More important than trade is foreign investment — especially when it comes to the Chinese buying up agricultural land.
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The area is a mix of agricultural land and estates on rolling properties dotted with old-growth oaks.
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But last year, a court ruling halted energy developments on agricultural land, which affected some of WEH's projects.
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Most states ban or restrict leasing of agricultural land to prevent the abusive tenancy arrangements of the past.
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Opponents include Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre, who has cited concerns the route could endanger forest and agricultural land.
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About 2,000 families have been forcefully evicted so far from agricultural land and shrimp aquaculture ponds, he said.
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"Gosaba stands just 262 meters above sea-level; half its agricultural land is flooded every year," she said.
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Farmers in the area complain that the rise of charcoal-making has wreaked environmental damage on agricultural land.
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White South Africans make up 8% of the population, per the WSJ, but own 73% of agricultural land.
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The military occupies over 17,000 acres of prime agricultural land in Okara district, not far from my village.
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"All of Zimbabwe's hunting areas are surrounded by communities who are hungry for agricultural land," Dr. Muposhi said.
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BUYING BASICS "Limitations on foreign property ownership in South Africa pertain solely to agricultural land," Mr. Geffen said.
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The result is that our agricultural land is not being used in an efficient or eco-friendly way.
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Most Indian states ban or restrict leasing of agricultural land to prevent the abusive tenancy arrangements of the past.
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Concern over China's expanding interests mean that sellers of agricultural land must now market the holdings to Australians first.
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Commercial tobacco farming is a worldwide industry that involves 124 countries and occupies 4.3 million hectares of agricultural land.
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The British forced Africans off prime agricultural land and into native reserves, to make way for white settler farmers.
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Far North Queensland extends 340,000 square kilometers and boasts extensive coastline, tropical forests, rich agricultural land and mineral resources.
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According to Van Butsic, a UC Berkeley researcher studying agricultural land use in Northern California, this is already happening.
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The stabilized septage is spread on the surface of agricultural land, plowed under it, or injected below the surface.
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Chinese takeovers of Australian businesses have jumped in recent years, along with an acceleration in purchases of agricultural land.
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Christmas tree farms typically use marginal agricultural land, he says, and the trees provide environmental benefits as they grow.
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Matt Dalgleish, analyst at agricultural research company Mecardo, said locals still owned the vast amount of agricultural land in Australia.
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The government devoted 30 percent of agricultural land to sugarcane for export, while importing 57 percent of Cuba's food supply.
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"Most of our agricultural land is pastures located in high mountainous areas," Davitashvili told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone.
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They include allowing financial institutions to own agricultural land for up to two years, after which they must sell it.
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Another loophole involves using agricultural land for construction projects—a process Mr Duterte has said he wants to make easier.
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Only 40 percent of Kashmir's agricultural land has irrigation facilities, so many rice paddies are particularly vulnerable to water shortages.
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The government estimates that more than 2200,2100 hectares of agricultural land was flooded, leaving many farmers with nothing to harvest.
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Of these, owners of agricultural land were far more likely to update land records than those who owned residential land.
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Add in grazing, and the business of making meat occupies about three-quarters of the agricultural land on the planet.
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Even agricultural land has become the object of speculative demand, pushing prices and gains for landowners up further, he said.
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The state program, which dates to the 1980s, calls for redistributing private and public agricultural land to independent small farmers.
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Two-thirds of the nation's area is made up of agricultural land, employing 186.000 people, five percent of its workforce.
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Poor farmers often keep bio-diverse agricultural land in good condition, but intensifying production can damage it, the report said.
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Millions of square miles of land across the world are now agricultural land, and people depend on these lands for food.
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The fire broke out on nearby agricultural land and was "outside the refinery and did not affect production", the statement added.
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In May 1959, he began confiscating privately owned agricultural land, including land owned by Americans, openly provoking the United States government.
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There, a network of organizations, the Working Group for Women and Land Ownership, was formed to help daughters inherit agricultural land.
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And in South Africa and Zimbabwe, Dr. Cooney said, hunting has pushed landowners into converting agricultural land into private wildlife reserves.
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For example, China has been buying agricultural land in the U.S. and Europe to harvest water-intensive crops such as alfalfa.
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"The urbanization rate is so high that this agricultural land would eventually be taken over by unplanned real estate," she said.
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With prime agricultural land and a tropical climate that allows food to grow year-round, Puerto Rico is a farmer's paradise.
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Concerns over supply also persist due to floods in northeastern Thailand that have damaged agricultural land, including some rice-growing areas.
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With more than 238 million hectares (22017 million acres) of agricultural land in Ghana, demand for drones is only growing, says Nelson.
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Scientists say that ramping up their production would lead to a huge spike in global food prices as agricultural land is diverted.
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The planned mine would cover an area the size of 700 football fields in what otherwise would be agricultural land, said Lopez.
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The private dacha plot survived the Soviet era when agricultural land was seized by the state to try to meet rising demand.
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Villager Majhi said that after losing homes and agricultural land, about 100 families are now living in centres intended as cyclone shelters.
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Seventy-five percent of the region's agricultural land, which contributes $76 billion to the US economy, is devoted to corn and soy.
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This, and similar extensions of agricultural land, such as the opening up of the cerrado in Brazil, helped the food supply greatly.
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Cover crops get planted on 29 percent of its agricultural land — the highest of any state, according to USDA's 2017 Agricultural Census.
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Rajapaksa, who is trying to make a political comeback, has publicly criticized the plan, saying it will deprive people of agricultural land.
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Regarding other reforms, an IMF-backed proposal to lift a moratorium on sales of agricultural land has also proved contentious in parliament.
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Antonio Pestana, chief of Venezuela's farming association, told reporters last month that only 25 percent of agricultural land is actually being farmed.
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Lopez has said the project would cover an area the size of 700 soccer fields in what otherwise would be agricultural land.
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Agricultural land is damaged by soil acidity, salinity and erosion, which are mainly manmade problems that have seen productivity stagnate, he said.
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In Britain and Germany, it is used on as much as 40 percent of agricultural land, according to an industry trade group.
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The technology may help meet the growing demand for feed in a more sustainable way by using less water and agricultural land.
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But because they were expatriates buying productive Moroccan agricultural land, the Marrakesh city council required them to set up an investment project.
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According to the United Nations, nearly 80 percent of the world's agricultural land is used to graze or grow food for livestock.
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About 75% of the world's agricultural land is used for animal production -- yet meat supplies only 17% of our calories, she said.
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Muhammed Tilahun, the local official, said compensation during the first phase of development was "very low" and did not include replacement agricultural land.
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Chinese firms have done so in more than 30 countries—China is the largest foreign owner of agricultural land in Australia, for example.
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If a Chinese-led bid for S. Kidman and its agricultural land ultimately proceeds China will be elevated to second largest foreign landowner.
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The agency's data shows that on July 22 about 20,269 hectares of agricultural land were at risk of harvest failure because of drought.
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That figure is now around 50%, and the transformation from wilderness to agricultural land leaves lasting changes in the nature of the soil.
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He used the current average price of agricultural land and figured that 40 acres of farmland and buildings would amount to roughly $123,1633.
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"Agricultural land is not an ordinary traded good, as soil is nonrenewable and access to it is a human right," the report said.
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It could then be argued that their crops cover demand for biofuel and for food and feeds, without needing expansion onto non-agricultural land.
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He said the initial bet behind Temasek's involvement on Bayer's plant protection activities, in view of finite agricultural land resources worldwide, was still valid.
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The government says about 96,000 hectares (237,000 acres) of farmland have been affected by the floods, or less than 1 percent of agricultural land.
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A close ally of Brazil's powerful farm lobby, Bolsonaro has pledged to halt invasions of agricultural land by native tribes and landless peasant movements.
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According to India's Shariat Act, women are entitled to half the man's share of property, but the rule does not apply to agricultural land.
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Livestock takes up the most space, with land used to grow animal feed and for grazing using nearly 80 percent of all agricultural land.
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There have been fewer reports in recent days of such incidents, which have burned large tracts of agricultural land and forests in southern Israel.
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Today, we are in a downturn, with farm income 40 percent off its high and agricultural land value in various degrees of decline nationwide.
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During my travels, I saw many new drill pads with over 20 separate wells—encompassing huge clear cuts or rectangles of former agricultural land.
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But since he put up a house on a nearby field in 2016, he has paid $4,500 in fines for building on agricultural land.
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A 2017 report by European Parliament lawmakers said that in 2010, 3 percent of farms controlled half the agricultural land with in the bloc.
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Second, change the federal tax code to eliminate capital gains on the sale of agricultural land to young, beginning, military veteran or minority farmers.
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And it's not as though agricultural land can simply be replaced with forests, thereby disrupting the food supply and putting farmers out of work.
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Cap said development of satellite cities encroachment was also taking away good agricultural land and depriving Nairobi of its source of cheap, affordable food.
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"We have demanded a genuine agrarian reform programme to ensure redistribution of agricultural land and adequate support for farmers," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Unfortunately for villages and tribes on the river's path, these dams can flood agricultural land and wreak havoc on fish populations, subsequently ruining people's livelihoods.
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Traditionally, Thai households had secure usufruct, or user, rights to agricultural land, meaning they could claim only as much land as they could cultivate themselves.
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For example, in an audit published in February the government found that blacks own just 4% of individually held agricultural land, whereas whites own 72%.
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But the FAO's finding that raising livestock takes about 80% of all agricultural land and produces just 18% of the world's calories is still telling.
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The Kidman cattle empire sits across four Australian states, is home to 10 ranches and accounts for 2.6 percent of the nation's total agricultural land.
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Kidman is particularly sensitive for the government because it represents the largest holding of agricultural land held by a single owner in Australia, Bath explained.
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Franco called the restriction on sales of agricultural land to foreign individuals and companies "nonsense" and said interim President Michel Temer will reconsider the issue.
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Women own only 1 percent of agricultural land, despite contributing 80 percent of the country's farm labor, according to Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS).
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He argues that taking over agricultural land held by developers using a powerful colonial-era ordinance would meet the city's land needs many times over.
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The vast majority of available collateral is over agricultural land, which has seen an increase in value over the last 10 years of approximately 200%.
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Much of it is reserved for country parks, but large portions are former agricultural land that has been illegally converted into junkyards and storage facilities.
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In cities such as Abidjan and Kampala expressways funded by tolls are easing bottlenecks and opening up agricultural land to developers, fuelling suburban construction booms.
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More than 1.3 billion people live on agricultural land that is deteriorating and face worsening hunger, water shortages and poverty, the U.N. said in September.
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The reforms were aimed at addressing colonial imbalances in which a small number of white farmers owned most of the best agricultural land in Zimbabwe.
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The company said it has 50 acres in agricultural land and is in talks with other entities to sign similar deals on the remaining land.
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He cited the significant size of the firm's sprawling ranchland, which covered 1 percent of Australia's total area and 2 percent of its agricultural land.
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America's agricultural economics run in cycles — each lasting 30 years since 1900 and including periods of decline in U.S. farm income and agricultural land value.
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Australia's tax office, the only official tracker of foreign agricultural land purchases, said privacy concerns prevented it from disclosing how many vineyards were Chinese-owned.
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People who build on agricultural land now face up to five years in prison and a fine of up to 0003 million Egyptian pounds ($280,000).
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It includes major cities such as Raqqa, once Islamic State's de facto capital, some of Syria's richest agricultural land and a number of oil fields.
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"We have demanded a genuine agrarian reform program to ensure redistribution of agricultural land and adequate support for farmers," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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For example, floods affecting agricultural land in low lying coastal areas can leave it unusable for farming, pushing inhabitants to leave the area for good.
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Because the price of agricultural land in Napa is so high, growers say that cannabis is the only crop that makes economic sense to plant.
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He has repeatedly criticized renewable energy targets and has recently pursued greater restrictions on foreign ownership of sensitive assets, including electricity grids and agricultural land.
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Overhauling the pension system and lifting a ban on agricultural land sales are among laws Ukraine must pass to receive further cash under the IMF programme.
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Gove, who criticized the CAP's "fundamentally flawed design", estimated that around 80 percent of the funding was based on the size of farmers' productive agricultural land.
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The Ministry of Agriculture further reckons that a third of agricultural land and a third of water for farming is taken up with growing the drug.
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The agricultural land in the area initially helped mitigate the impact on food supplies, but the lack of fuel made the cultivation of agricultural lands difficult.
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"By rushing into locating the capital city in an area that contained fertile agricultural land, the state has caused irreparable damage to the economy," he said.
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He said the governor suggested earlier in the week that they look at unused agricultural land near Maku'u Farmer's Market, which is in lava zone 2000.
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Almost four-fifths of all agricultural land is dedicated to feeding livestock, if you count not just pasture but also cropland used to grow animal feed.
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More than two-thirds of Morocco is agricultural land but irrigation is practiced on only 16 percent of the cultivated territory, according to the World Bank.
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Although the majority of Bolivia's farms belong to smallholders, 91 percent of the country's agricultural land is tied up in just 4 percent of the farms.
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Without bees to pollinate crops, yields on about 35% of agricultural land worldwide would suffer, and 87 of the world's leading food crops would be affected.
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Last year, the northeastern state of Sikkim became India's first 100 percent organic, GMO-free state, converting 75,000 hectares of agricultural land into certified organic farms.
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The Kurdish-led militias control about one-quarter of Syria's territory, including valuable agricultural land and oil reserves in the north and east of the country.
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The report notes that producing 56 percent more calories without expanding agricultural land could prove even more difficult if, as expected, rising temperatures reduce crop yields.
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The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates that around 80% of agricultural land is devoted to rearing livestock, yet it yields only 18% of the world's calories.
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The southern African country wants to transfer 43 percent, or 15 million hectares (58,000 square miles) of its arable agricultural land, to previously disadvantaged blacks by 2020.
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Its latest report showed agricultural land held by Chinese interests grew tenfold in 2017, making China the second-biggest foreign owner of farmland behind the United Kingdom.
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Cuba's small farmers control only 25 percent of the nation's agricultural land but produce over 65 percent of the country's food, contributing significantly to the island's sovereignity.
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Kurdish officials say they can withstand an economic blockade because they are self-sufficient in terms of power generation and fuel supply and have fertile agricultural land.
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The militants also tax agricultural land and impose a 10 percent levy on poultry and other duties on a range of imports into their territory, it added.
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And much of the rest is unlovely, inaccessible or both: intensive agricultural land, horse paddocks, endless golf courses and pointlessly empty parcels like this one in Harlow.
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It could then be argued that their crops cover demand for biofuel and for food and feeds, without needing expansion onto non-agricultural land, such as forests.
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The government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva shocked investors in 2010 when he put the breaks on foreigners' purchase of large pieces of agricultural land.
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AgriSA, a union of commercial farmers, says that it will scrutinise the bill's implementation, and take to court any attempts to expropriate agricultural land without full compensation.
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Amongst the opportunities on display for investors during the event were 4 million dunums (400,000 hectares) of agricultural land, Hameed al-Nayef, Iraqi agriculture ministry spokesman said.
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Much of China's food insecurity comes from its vulnerability to natural disasters like drought, flood, and storms, which affect about one third of the country's agricultural land.
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In 2001, President Robert Mugabe introduced land reforms aimed at addressing colonial imbalances whereby a few white farmers own most of the best agricultural land in Zimbabwe.
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Midrange predictions include the loss of the majority of global agricultural land and freshwater sources, with major coastal cities like New York and Mumbai ending up underwater.
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In recent years many Gulf countries have snapped up vast swaths of Sudanese agricultural land that they hope might one day grow crops for their desert nations.
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Earning a profit and other commercial goals are undoubtedly behind some of the moves, but others are strategically important for China - such as investing in agricultural land.
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"If there were to be 150-metre non-treatment areas around all houses, then that would be the biggest transformation of agricultural land ever obtained," Guillaume said.
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The new agricultural policy forces sellers to advertise locally for at least 30 days, ensuring that Australians have the opportunity to purchase agricultural land ahead of foreign buyers.
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Antonio Pestana, chief of the farming industry association, told reporters recently that shortages of seeds and agrochemicals means only 25 percent of agricultural land is actually being farmed.
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Land is a highly emotive issue in South Africa, where the bulk of productive agricultural land has remained in white hands since the end of apartheid in 1994.
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About a quarter of Tanzania's 48.7 million hectares (123 million acres) of agricultural land is cultivated by peasant farmers, according to Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries estimates.
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Bolivia's Vice Ministry of Civil Defense estimated that the drought has affected 125,000 families and threatened 290,000 hectares (716,605 acres) of agricultural land and 360,000 heads of cattle.
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He calculates that the world's total "technical potential" of energy production for solar PV plants could be around 500–1000 TerraWatts (TW), without significantly impacting on agricultural land.
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Australia blocked the proposed sale of the country's biggest agricultural land holding, S. Kidman Co, to Chinese bidders in April, saying it was not in the national interest.
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Several laws, the most recent of which was passed in 403, prohibit the conversion of agricultural land for non-agricultural uses, but critics say they are not enforced.
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If the whole world ate like China or India, with their mostly plant-based diets, we could return more than half of all agricultural land to nature tomorrow.
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Colonialists seized some of the best agricultural land and much of it remained in the hands of white farmers after independence in 1980 leaving many blacks effectively landless.
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Gulf investors have bought large swathes of agricultural land and food-producing companies in Serbia and Bosnia to help address weaknesses in the supply chain of halal ingredients.
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The compound is about 240 miles from the US-Mexico border in an area that's known for its thriving agricultural land and for being a large Mennonite settlement.
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The conversion of this area into agricultural land has led to deforestation, an influx of farmers, and disruption to local ecosystems—all devastating ongoing losses in biocultural diversity.
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Colonialists seized some of the best agricultural land and much of it remained in the hands of white farmers after independence in 1980, while many blacks were landless.
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The storm could bring "ruinous rain to central Luzon, home to the country's agricultural land," warned Richard Gordon, a senator and the chairman of the Philippine Red Cross.
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To find agricultural land in the area, he was counting on word of mouth rather than on the regional agencies, despite having filled out piles of application forms.
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"The biggest problem is that urban agricultural land doesn't exist as a land type within the Turkish system," said Ali Taptik of a group trying to preserve the gardens.
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It controls the oil wells that produce 95% of Syria's oil and much of its gas; the waters of the Euphrates; prime agricultural land; and five large military bases.
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The concessions have changed traditional cropping, with 80 percent of all agricultural land now given over to six export-focused crops: rice, cassava, maize, sugarcane, rubber and oil palm.
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But major developers, including Henderson Land, New World Development and Sun Hung Kai Properties, are sitting on "no less than 2000,2200 hectares" of agricultural land, according to government estimates.
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New rules announced by the Australian government early this year amid concerns over China's expanding interests require agricultural land sellers to advertise and market the holdings to Australians first.
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Myanmar has a young and cheap workforce, a long coastline, abundant agricultural land and an ideal location, wedged between the massive markets of China, India and South-East Asia.
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Farmers in Paraguay have long demanded a redistribution of agricultural land, 80 percent of which is held by just 2.5 percent of the population, according to a 2008 census.
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He pointed to the Mezquital Valley, north of Mexico City, where vast swathes of agricultural land are irrigated - and fertilised - by copious quantities of untreated wastewater from the capital.
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In this part of India, everything is so packed together that even the people who live here aren't sure where the agricultural land ends and the protected forests begin.
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But major developers, including Henderson Land, New World Development and Sun Hung Kai Properties , are sitting on "no less than 210,2000 hectares" of agricultural land, according to government estimates.
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In addition, though the United States was rich in agricultural land, by the same token it was relatively undeveloped and needed to import capital from abroad to fuel economic growth.
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But locals and experts say that Kashmiris need to keep their agricultural land to protect Srinagar from flooding, especially as the changing climate has increased the risk of heavy downpours.
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Data on women's land ownership is limited, but statistics from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization indicate women control less than a quarter of agricultural land holdings in developing countries.
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With much of Afghanistan's agricultural land degraded, and many areas lawless after years of war, food insecurity has added to the suffering without generating the same headlines as the fighting.
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Critics like Chu say the Kuk is also encouraging environmentally unfriendly practices, such as allowing agricultural land to be turned into parking lots, junk yards and electronic waste recycling depots.
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The source of insecurity for both farmers and banks in Zimbabwe lies with section 72 of the 2013 constitution, which sets out the state's rights and powers over agricultural land.
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A number of factors are contributing to the rise in disease outbreaks, she said, including increased human contact with wild animals as natural habitats are destroyed to create agricultural land.
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But many Australians become more ambivalent when discussing Chinese students — who pump $18 billion per year into the university system — or Chinese investment in Australian real estate and agricultural land.
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Cairo grew outward and inward at the same time, with buildings taking over surrounding agricultural land and desert, and high-rises replacing villas or vacant lots in the city's center.
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"Because the use of fire is a traditional part of tropical agriculture to clean agricultural land, grazing land, it is very difficult to stop it," Alves said in an email.
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He also said the khat was hurting the country economically, as tracts of agricultural land, traditionally set aside for exports like coffee, was now dedicated to cultivating the addictive plant.
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Nabad al Hayat had been attacked three times since it opened in 123 and had recently relocated to an underground complex on agricultural land, hoping to be protected from airstrikes.
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"The operation was organized," said Mahmoud al-Hadi, who owns agricultural land near Raqqa and who, like the other farmers, had come to the council's cement offices to seek help.
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But treating agricultural land could end up costing China trillions of yuan, and policymakers are still trying to establish mechanisms that will allow private firms to profit from the clean-up.
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The ruling stated that forests were being felled to make way for more grazing and agricultural land, as well as coca crops - the raw ingredient for cocaine - illegal mining and logging.
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But the finding from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation that raising livestock takes about 80% of all agricultural land and produces just 18% of the world's calories is still telling.
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Audubon's bird and climate models are the first to include a comprehensive assessment of North America's landscapes, including vegetation, agricultural land use and urbanization alongside a wealth of information on birds.
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While Nepal's Land Act of 1964 gave tenant farmers the right to own land and put a ceiling on landholdings, most agricultural land is in the hands of a few owners.
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Chen said the legislation was taking a long time because the issue was complex, but he insisted that even without the law, the government was working hard to improve agricultural land.
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"It is not uncommon to encounter political, social or cultural resistance when an emotive issue such as foreign direct investment in agricultural land is considered," Managing Director Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi said.
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In April his government vetoed a bid by Dakang, a Chinese company, for S. Kidman and Co, a vast outback empire of cattle ranches that owns 2.5% of Australia's agricultural land.
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With the loss of agricultural land, many of the 2.9 million residents of Satkhira and Khulna have switched to shrimp farming, but that does not provide as many jobs, said Rashid.
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The NBA has said the dam displaced 320,000 people - many of them poor tribal farmers who were not resettled on agricultural land - and disrupted the lives of tens of thousands more.
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Mr. Bolsonaro's campaign promises to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and develop the "unproductive Amazon," including opening up large swaths of forests to agricultural land, could also thwart his economic agenda.
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Residential and government buildings, heritage sites, schools and health posts were left in ruins, rural roads bridges, water supply systems were snapped, agricultural land, trekking routes and hydropower plants were devastated.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's government plans to lift current limits on foreign ownership of agricultural land, Secretary of Investment Moreira Franco, the person behind privatization for the new administration, told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Farming plays a key role in Brazil's economy, pitting the government, which wants to boost foreign investment in agricultural land to rekindle growth amid biting recession, against opponents fearing deforestation and displacement.
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Even in the first year, which had the largest insured area as big rice farms tried it out, barely 2 percent of the country's agricultural land was covered, according to NII data.
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Temer's government has no objection, in principle, to opening up agricultural land ownership to foreign investors again, but there in no plan for this on the drawing board as yet, he said.
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Less than a quarter of the nearly 100 million acres of agricultural land that will change hands is expected to be sold to a non-relative, according to the 2014 federal findings.
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While it is still too early for statistical evidence, there is anecdotal evidence that bank mortgages on agricultural land have dried up overnight and residential property sales are also taking a hit.
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But in France, like most of Europe, people are not allowed to build housing in forests or on agricultural land, only in designated housing areas and where they must respect building codes.
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But in France, like most of Europe, people are not allowed to build housing in forests or on agricultural land, only in designated housing areas and where they must respect building codes.
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"We use 373 percent of our agricultural land in the world for livestock that gives us 17 percent of our calories," Ms. Lappé, 76, told The New York Times Magazine in 2019.
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Much of the neighborhood, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was developed for German businessmen in the mid-2667s, on agricultural land once owned by a Catholic mission.
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Such clashes are common across the continent between international investors buying large tracts of agricultural land, and local communities who have cultivated the earth for generations, but lack legal rights and fear displacement.
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"A lot of Australians feel that Asians are buying up prime agricultural land, housing," Hanson said at a fiery media conference in Brisbane on Monday, where she also reiterated her anti-Islam stance.
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In August, the World Bank approved a $100 million IBRD loan to finance a program aimed at helping farmers clean up heavy metals pollution of agricultural land in the rice-growing Hunan province.
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The ministers, whose countries represent 60 percent of the world's agricultural land and 80 percent of food and agricultural commodities trade, did not specify which measures they were referring to in the statement.
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Sun Hung Kai said it has been working to convert its agricultural land for "appropriate developments to help address the shortage of developable land and housing in Hong Kong," but offered no examples.
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Women make up only a third of the 2.5 million people employed in the formal sector and own only 1 percent of agricultural land, according to the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS).
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BUYING BASICS Foreigners can buy most property in Morocco without restrictions; agricultural land is an exception, said Bouchra Belouchi, a managing partner with the Belouchi and Fassi-Fihri Law Firm, based in Casablanca.
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The U.S. had also "lost" a recent election for the FAO — the FAO knows where the world's best agricultural land is located and is one of the bosses of the World Food Program.
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Much of the neighborhood, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was developed by German merchants and businessmen during the mid-1800s on agricultural land from a nearby Catholic mission.
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The last time the Corps opened the spillway's floodgates, in 2011, an epic flood inundated nearly 100,000 acres of agricultural land, forced a cattle evacuation and reduced production of oil and natural gas.
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Experts say it's going to take a substantial amount to expand adaptation projects to lower temperatures, prevent desertification from intruding on precious habitable and agricultural land and to educate communities on how to adjust.
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They excluded areas that are currently used as urban or agricultural land, or that would naturally be grasslands or wetlands, because these ecosystems can themselves be valuable carbon stores, as well as supporting biodiversity.
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This research could have huge impact in terms of addressing growing global food supply needs while making the most existing agricultural land footprint and decreasing the need for potentially damaging expansion of the same.
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"We did one run [with] 1940s agricultural land use data, and a run where we had 2010 current land use," Taleena Sines from the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy told Gizmodo.
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Part of the Pick-Sloan Plan, which proposed building five dams up and down the Missouri River, the construction flooded 160,889 acres of prime agricultural land and displaced a quarter of Standing Rock's residents.
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They could choose from a network of tiny streams threading through swathes of agricultural land in the Hokersar wetland, just 10 km (8 miles) north of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-administered Kashmir.
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In an altercation on Wednesday, a village headman and his supporters allegedly shot at a group of tribal people who were working a piece of disputed agricultural land in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
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"Agricultural land that will be offered is across Iraq and investors should choose what crops to grow but we are giving priority to strategic crops like wheat, barley, corn, sesame and rice," he said.
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The volume of pollinator dependent crops (which range from cocoa to avocados) has increased by 300 percent in the last 50 years, and such crops account for approximately 973 percent of all agricultural land.
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The state assembly on Wednesday approved changes to two laws that will allow the state to buy protected tribal land to lease to investors, as well as use agricultural land for non-agricultural purposes.
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They can help green large areas of land very fast, and could contribute to meeting the international community's commitment to restore 350 million hectares of degraded forests and agricultural land by 2030, she said.
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She said in August that Tampakan should not have been given an ECC since the planned mine would cover an area the size of 700 football fields in what otherwise would be agricultural land.
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That reality suggests Pakistan may face a future where an uncertain climate forces the poor – who cultivate over 80 percent of the country's agricultural land - out of farming unless they get help, experts say.
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For example, those who argue that we could solve affordability by just allowing all of our agricultural land to be developed for new suburbs, or our job lands for new condos, are profoundly wrong.
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But in five years, Zulfikar Ali insists, Mongla will be a regional economic hub, accommodating thousands of migrants drawn by rapid industrialisation and pushed by the loss of agricultural land to the rising sea.
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The UK's success was equivalent to taking 1.4 million cars off the road, saving 85033,000 Olympic-sized pools of freshwater, and avoiding the need for an agricultural land area about the size of Delaware.
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There are no signs, for instance, of a larger strategy to reverse the agricultural land grabs and company seizures that helped lay the groundwork for one of the worst economic implosions of modern times.
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During a meeting on January 10, just three days after the investment zone was announced, Rajapaksa told the Chinese ambassador that he believes agricultural land should not be handed out on long, 99-year leases.
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According to the chapter 280 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report, greenhouse gas flux associated with agricultural land use accounts for about 9–11 percent of all human greenhouse gas emissions.
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In 2003, before joining the World Bank, he led an urban planning studio to survey a village outside Cairo that had 12 structures on agricultural land according to the most recent map at the time.
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Reuters TV footage of the Islamic State-controlled frontline shows armed militants, most with only their eyes visible, supervising the evacuations from a scrubby patch of agricultural land scattered with vehicles and a few buildings.
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The expansion of agricultural land also creates emissions through the draining of peatland, releasing carbon dioxide - one of the main greenhouse gases - into the air and through the felling of trees, which absorb carbon dioxide.
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At the second tract of land, known as Al Ghamr, Israeli farmers from the nearby cooperative village of Zofar have long worked about 370 acres of agricultural land on the Jordanian side of the line.
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Residents, however, say an SDF attempt last week to relieve the dam's water levels by opening a canal from the Balikh River that flows into the Euphrates had flooded cultivated agricultural land in several villages.
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Data from NASA satellites reveals an overwhelming degradation of agricultural land throughout Africa, with one recent study showing that more than 230 million Africans are trying to survive off land whose agricultural potential is declining.
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The Syrian army stepped up bombardment two weeks ago in an effort to recapture Eastern Ghouta, a rebel-held pocket of densely populated agricultural land on the outskirts of the capital under siege since 2012.
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It was this principle that established the world's first agricultural research station some 150 years ago when the founders of Rothamsted saw the potential of the agricultural land surrounding London to supply a growing urban population.
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Morrison also said foreign investors will need to demonstrate that agricultural land they want to buy has been part of a public sales process and marketed widely to potential Australian bidders for at least 30 days.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Floods caused by heavy rain across Iran in recent weeks have caused an estimated $2.5 billion in damage to roads, bridges, homes and agricultural land, state media cited ministers as telling lawmakers on Sunday.
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Analysts say that restrictions on selling agricultural land imposed by the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) government this year led to a fall in the prices and number of transactions, so banks are seeking other collateral.
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Today just over one percent of Colombia's landowners hold more than half of the country's agricultural land, making land distribution in Colombia among the most unequal in the world, according to the United Nations Development Programme.
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It holds an estimated $25 trillion in mineral reserves including most of the cobalt on which a clean energy revolution depends, enough hydropower for much of Africa, and rich agricultural land that has barely been cultivated.
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"In Zimbabwe, the major drivers of deforestation have been the conversion of forest land to agricultural land, which accounts for 80 percent of the deforestation rate," Oppah Muchinguri, Zimbabwe's environment minister, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Kenya was one of Britain's most important colonies with hundreds of settlers moving into the best agricultural land to grow tea, coffee and tobacco, forcing Africans into reserves and employing them as cooks, guards and gardeners.
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"Our agricultural land and water resources are arguably our nation's most valuable natural assets, so it is important that we have a good understanding of foreign investment levels in these areas," Morrison said in a statement.
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Citing a presidential decree this month that reclassified agricultural land along the Cairo-Alexandria Desert Road for urban communities, Pharos Research kept an "overweight" rating on the stock and raised its fair value estimate to 21 pounds.
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Last month, Belt Magazine reported local authorities took steps to designate about 3,000 acres of agricultural land, farmhouses, and single-family homes as "blighted"—a move that could allow the government to seize homes with eminent domain.
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Today, the area remains mostly as it was back then, small patches of agricultural land controlled by local farmers in settlements known as bocage: pastures divided into small fields, interspersed with groves of trees separating each plot.
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Colombia, where two thirds of agricultural land is concentrated in just 0.4 percent of farmland holdings, fares the worst, Oxfam said in a report analyzing land censuses and policy in 15 countries over the last 50 years.
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Silverman complains that on the one hand people say that they'll never grow anything on the ranch, but when the disciples want to use part of it for a city, suddenly they claim it's valuable agricultural land.
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No one factor predicts a bloom, but an excess of nutrients from sources like runoff from fertilized agricultural land and sewage is assumed to be a major contributor and is a likely target for human control efforts.
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Adding in pasture lands, the production of animal-based foods takes up more than three-quarters of the world's agricultural land, and global meat and dairy demand continues to rise, putting pressure on the world's remaining forests.
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An unnamed company wanted to build a massive chicken-processing plant, designated in filings only as "Project Rawhide," on a tract of agricultural land about halfway to Fremont, a larger town a few miles to the south.
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The canal will demolish two basins that provide nearly a third of Istanbul's fresh water and will increase the salinity of underground water streams, affecting agricultural land as far away as the neighboring Thrace region, TMMOB said.
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Given the geographical location, and the quality of the agricultural land, Ms. Appleton was confident that this was also the site of a Roman settlement, a conviction reinforced by the discovery of several artifacts from that period.
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On February 250, 203, as Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" topped the domestic charts, the New Mexico State Land Office granted an agricultural land lease near the unincorporated community of Stanley to the Zorro Trust.
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NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On the outskirts of Nairobi, vast tracts of agricultural land are seeing a new type of growth, as steel rods and concrete pillars set into the red earth reach into the Kenyan sky.
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Georgian Dream also postponed until 2024 a planned shift from the current electoral system, whose combination of majoritarian and proportional voting benefits the government, to a fully proportional one, and barred the sale of agricultural land to foreigners.
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Lopez, who stepped down in May after failing to win congressional confirmation after 10 months in office, has said the project would cover an area the size of 700 soccer fields in what otherwise would be agricultural land.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Agricultural land in China shrank by 43,500 hectares to 1.3496 million hectares (5,210 sq miles) in 2016 due to new construction, disasters and forest preservation, state TV said, citing data from the Ministry of Land Resource.
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"If we continue to convert our land like this, we will be left with no agricultural land (in) a few years," said the 2003-year-old Parray, who refuses to sell any of his three acres (1.2 hectares).
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The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report last month which found that humans must re-forest much of the Earth's agricultural land and shift to plant-based diets in order to prevent dangerous climate change.
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Draining wetlands has been marked as a serious conservation problem, and has even led to saltwater creeping in to wells that were once meant for drinking, loss of fertile agricultural land, and even fires on newly barren peatland.
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Those against the facility, like Peter Woolford, a third-generation Kimba farmer, and part of the No Radioactive Waste on Agricultural Land in Kimba or South Australia group, say it will hurt the prices of crops and farmland.
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President Nelson Mandela and the A.N.C. promised to transfer 1994 percent of agricultural land from white to black hands by 1999, securing their ownership rights through tenure reform, and to reform the power structure in the former Bantustans.
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While agricultural land in India had been surveyed in the British colonial period, the areas where homes are built in the villages – usually measuring no more than 0.5 sq km – were considered "wasteland" and rarely surveyed, he said.
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Around the world, glaciers in the mountains are receding quickly, affecting the availability of water for millions of people who depend on meltwater downstream to supply drinking water, irrigate agricultural land and produce electricity through dams and hydropower.
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Toronto is ringed by a protected belt of green space, farmland and forests, set aside in 2005, while Vancouver has an agricultural land reserve, established in 1973 - both designed to prevent urban development from eating into arable land.
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As part of the package of measures, ministers also agreed on the share of renewable fuels to be used in transport, while setting a cap on first-generation biofuels, which critics say compete for agricultural land with food.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - President Michel Temer will propose legislation to lift restrictions on foreign ownership of airlines and agricultural land in Brazil as he strives to pull the economy out of a two-year recession, government sources said on Monday.
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Total California acreage devoted to four permanent crops alone — almonds, walnuts, pistachios and wine grapes — stands at nearly 2 million acres, an area the size of Lebanon, according to a 2014 trend report on agricultural land and lease values.
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Back in 2014, Florida voters approved Amendment 1, setting aside an estimated $650 million in the program's first year for the state to buy agricultural land south of Lake Okeechobee as a new pathway for discharge into the Everglades.
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The project in the Horn of Africa nation is already achieving results, with new fertilizer combinations boosting wheat yields from around 1 tonne to 3 tonnes per hectare on more than 40 percent of its agricultural land last year.
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When white-ruled Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in 1980, white people, who made up just 5% of the population, owned nearly three quarters of agricultural land - an imbalance that all sides agreed had to change but without agreeing exactly how.
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Lan is part of an all-woman explosive disposal team working under project NPA-RENEW (Norwegian People's Aid-Restoring the Environment and Neutralising the Effect of War) — to help rehabilitate more than 60,000 hectares (150,000 acres) of agricultural land.
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ANKARA, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Turkey and Sudan have signed a $100 million oil exploration deal and an agreement allocating thousands of square miles of Sudanese agricultural land for investment by Turkish companies, Turkey's agriculture and forestry ministry said on Tuesday.
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Since the end of apartheid in 1994, less than 10 percent of commercial agricultural land has been transferred from white to black ownership, according to the Institute for Poverty and Agrarian Studies, leading to calls for more radical reform laws.
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Perennial forage crops are necessary on all but the best agricultural land whether or not you plan on raising livestock—sustainable land management requires hay or pasture grown in rotation with annual crops to maintain quality arable land year-over-year.
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More than half a million people in rebel-held suburbs to the east of Damascus are facing imminent starvation, after the Syrian army broke through rebel lines last week, separating people from the agricultural land that was the area's breadbasket.
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WARSAW, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Polish banks will further restrict their credit policy due to changes in regulations concerning sales of agricultural land and the demand for mortgages will fall significantly in the current quarter, a central bank report said on Monday.
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It previously knocked back an offer by a China-led consortium to buy the country's largest agricultural land owner, cattle company Kidman & Co. China's offshore ambitions have come under increasing scrutiny this year by governments in Europe and the United States.
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But rapid industrial development has left large swathes of agricultural land and water unfit for human use, with more than 3.33 million hectares - an area the size of Belgium - deemed too polluted to grow crops, according to a 2013 survey.
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However, a global vegetarian diet, the same study showed, would be the most effective of all diets (not including vegan) in achieving a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, as well as a decrease in agricultural land demand and land clearing.
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Of course, much of reforestation happens in areas that have been deforested, and if Ecosia's partners cannot address the existing incentives to chop down trees—namely a need for agricultural land, firewood, and timber—the company might take its funds elsewhere.
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This is not the first oil spill along the Keystone pipeline system; an incident in 2017 caused more than 407,000 gallons of crude oil to cover agricultural land in South Dakota in a rural area near the North Dakota border.
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These projects held out the prospect of increasing food production in a part of the world where the memory of famine still stung and where the partition of India from Pakistan left both countries feeling they had lost valuable agricultural land.
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Another initiative supports research to produce new seed varieties of rice that are resistant to the increased salinity in water due to climate change, which is the largest food crop produced in country and uses 75 percent of agricultural land.
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"As we know, many of the beneficiaries are not even U.K. or E.U. citizens, but foreign citizens who happen to have invested in agricultural land," Michael Gove, Britain's environment secretary, said during a debate on the bill in Parliament last year.
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To encourage a next generation of farmers and ranchers to grow our food, steward our land and anchor vibrant rural communities, we need a national commitment to protecting our irreplaceable agricultural land and getting new farm families on the land.
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" Lincoln Muniz Alves, a researcher at Brazil's Space Research Center's Earth System Science Center, previously told CNN that man-made fires can be difficult to stop, because fire is "a traditional part of tropical agriculture to clean agricultural land, grazing land.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's New South Wales state said on Wednesday it would buy back half of a coal exploration license from China Shenhua Energy Co Ltd, bowing to pressure from farmers and environmentalists opposed to mining on prime agricultural land.
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While the flow of goods has dried up, Saroukhan said the region could cope thanks to its natural resources: the area is rich in agricultural land, and rudimentary refineries are being used to make gasoline and diesel from locally extracted oil.
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"As per local experts, any further rise of the water level would submerge huge swathes of agricultural land along the river and could potentially damage the Tabqa Dam, which would have catastrophic humanitarian implications in all areas downstream," it said.
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The group says it would demolish two basins that provide nearly a third of the city's fresh water; increase the salinity of underground streams, harming agricultural land as well to the west; and raise oxygen levels in the Black Sea.
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"If the county as a whole says 'agricultural land is important to us and we want to keep farmers here and we want to buy their development rights,' then they need to pony up and pay an amount that motivates people," said Borello.
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Groundwater irrigates almost three-quarters of Punjab's agricultural land, but groundwater levels are dropping by 40 to 50 cm (16 to 2700 inches) a year, according to Rajan Aggarwal, head of the soil and water engineering department at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU).
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Why it matters: With more people will come more health risks, a need for more food from already-stressed agricultural land — and the potential for regional and global instability as poor Nigerians along with other Africans seek to migrate for a better life.
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The Syrian government and its Russian and Iranian allies want the territory back for several reasons: its oil deposits; its agricultural land; reopening the border with Iraq; and reunification of the country, which has been shattered by a war that began in 2011.
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As more and more of the world's agricultural land is used to grow livestock or their food, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, an increasing number of environmental experts have recommended that eaters cut back on the amount of meat they consume.
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"There are a lot of villages, particularly across the delta, which have lost almost all of their agricultural land to land grabs," said Tim Millar, the Myanmar program director of Namati, a legal aid group involved in helping farmers in Myanmar retrieve their land.
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In light of growing global populations, the study examined the amount of people that could be fed from US farmland depending on what types of diets they followed—in other words, what the "carrying capacity" of agricultural land was based on what people ate.
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Syeda Rizwana Hasan, chief executive of the Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association, said authorities should amend the Brick Production and Brick Kiln Building (Control) Act of 2013 to take into account the pollution, damage to agricultural land and other environmental threats caused by brick production.
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Relatively small transactions like the purchase of US-based Smithfield foods to secure both supplies of pork and advanced agricultural technologies, and direct investments in agricultural land in South America and Equatorial Africa, are examples of China's food-security plan unfolding before our eyes.
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Closing costs paid by a residential buyer include stamp duty, calculated as 21 percent on the first million euros of the purchase price and 2000 percent on anything above that; other types of property sales, including agricultural land, are subject to a 21 percent fee.
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There are many dynamics in Indonesia that are reminiscent of what I see in the U.S. and there's this tension between collective adat structures around village land and the emergence of individualized, private ownership that has fueled the rapid conversion of agricultural land into tourism-centric development.
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"If all of the experimental systems operate successfully, Planetary Resources intends to use the Arkyd-6 satellite to capture MWIR images of targets on Earth's surface, including agricultural land, resource exploration regions, and infrastructure for mining and energy," said Chris Voorhees, the chief engineer of Planetary Resources.
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DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tanzania's former prime minister Frederick Sumaye has accused the government of unfairly taking almost 800 acres of farmland he and his wife owned, as it presses ahead with a campaign to seize idle agricultural land for redistribution to poor farmers.
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According to United Nations researchers, roughly 80 percent of agricultural land worldwide is used to sustain livestock, a proportion that is unlikely to drop much when a leader like Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil is committed to deforesting the Amazon to clear a path for more cattle raising.
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