Arable land was scarce and few other jobs were available.
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Petrochemicals are there, Nigeria has more arable land than China.
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Africa, he wrote, contained 60% of the world's available arable land.
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It doesn't require arable land, fresh water and fertilizers (or pesticides).
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Raising them polluted water supplies and gobbled up scarce arable land.
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Last month, China announced plans to make 43 percent of its polluted arable land safe to use by 2020, two years after a national survey that found around 20 percent of the country's arable land was contaminated.
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That, they fear, might lead to an unacceptable loss of arable land.
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China does not have enough arable land to feed its 22017bn people.
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"You don't need arable land for this kind of thing," he says.
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The country has one of the world's largest areas of arable land.
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Most of the country's arable land is given over to cotton and wheat.
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Some deforestation is caused by ranchers and farmers looking to expand arable land.
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South Korea imports most of its food as it has little arable land.
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To allow arable land to be cultivated safely, land mines must be removed.
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That is the equivalent of between 23% and 68% of the world's arable land.
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About a third of the arable land on earth is dedicated to grazing animals.
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The desert is expanding; water is becoming more scarce, and so is arable land.
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Meanwhile, the global population is quickly growing, while our arable land faces more pressure.
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Africa has the world's youngest population and 333 percent of its uncultivated arable land.
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"We now lose 100,000 hectares of arable land every year to desertification," says Chaifou.
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Yet arable land is in decline, along with soil health all over the world.
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If they don't take up arable land, they need to take up pasture or wilderness.
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The population's growing around the world, but the world's not making any more arable land.
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It is rather harder to stake a claim on a swathe of fertile arable land.
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The state had owned 79 percent of arable land, and most was run in state cooperatives.
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A lot of that arable land is in the area we see below the red line.
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By the 1920s, a tenth of the population owned over seven-tenths of the arable land.
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Nearly 40,000 homes have been leveled and an estimated 16,000 hectares of arable land are inundated.
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It said as much as 8 percent of China's arable land was contaminated by heavy metals.
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The aim is to promote urbanisation, while slowing the rate at which Chongqing loses arable land.
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Fiji's leading export has long been sugar; sugar cane covers three-quarters of its arable land.
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As investment picks up in Mindanao, where arable land is cheap, employment in agriculture may rise.
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And in 1995, a big flood took out about 15 percent of North Korea's arable land.
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It is a sobering sight in a country where every inch of arable land is intensively cultivated.
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By the turn of the 21st century, farmers were losing hectares of once-arable land to salinization.
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Labour, unlike oil, arable land, blast furnaces and many other productive resources, is required in every industry.
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Currently, more than 60% unused arable land is in Africa, while agriculture exports are far from ideal.
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The best arable land has always been in Canada's south — no surprise, given the cold weather farther north.
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We have a lot of arable land but up to now, there's not much investment in this field.
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But community stigma and the loss of arable land make this a distant dream for most tiger widows.
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Yemen has never had enough arable land (less than 3 percent) to support its population (28 million people).
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We use a huge amount of our arable land just to feed animals in tortured factory farms scenarios.
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North Korea has very little arable land, and the collective farms it managed to build were radically inefficient.
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Chinese state-owned companies are buying vast swatches of Africa's arable land to set up large-scale agricultural projects.
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Instead, poor farming methods progressively deplete nutrients from soils; almost all arable land in Africa lacks irrigation, for example.
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Countries in the Middle East import food in large quantities as the region has less arable land and water.
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The United States is blessed with more arable land than any other nation on earth — arguably our greatest resource.
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Climate change is leading us back to a world of scarcity, of resource wars for water and arable land.
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Much of the 4 percent of the arid country that is arable land now lies untilled because of the war.
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Africa is home to almost 2628 percent of the world's population and 28500 percent of the world's undeveloped arable land.
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China had about 130 million hectares of arable land at end-2017 and grows corn on about 42 million hectares.
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Quintupling biofuel production would require a huge amount of additional arable land, far more than existed in the United States.
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China has to feed nearly a quarter of the world's population with just 7 percent of the world's arable land.
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The amount of arable land for each person in Asia is expected to decline by 5% by 2030, it said.
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That's 28503 percent of the arable land in the U.S. As a result, farmers are actually doing more with less.
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Irrigation is a centerpiece of that promise in a country where nearly half of the arable land depends on monsoon rains.
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Though the country only has 10 percent of arable land worldwide, they produce food for 20 percent of the world's population.
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This is bad news for a country that has 18% of the world's population but only 7% of its arable land.
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The world was covered in green, billions of leaves waving triumphantly over all arable land like flags of an invading army.
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The world's No.2 economy had 135 million hectares of arable land at the end of 2015, according to official calculations.
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Only about 20153% of arable land south of the Sahara is irrigated, so local weather patterns determine what can be grown.
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But this has come at a cost, Halle said, since the planet is now running out of water and arable land.
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Rising temperatures and improving technologies mean longer growing seasons, higher crop yields and wider swathes of arable land in much of Russia.
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We have 1.2 billion people, 60 percent of the world's uncultivated arable land and the most technologically underserved population on the planet.
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In some parts of Africa, for example, refugees can be given arable land to farm; Uganda has found success with this approach.
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By the war, half of Japan's arable land was worked by tenant farmers, and rent was never less than half the crop.
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Even where the mountains wind down and arable land is more readily available, the region can still feel like an isolated place.
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"Our aim is to substantially increase the quality of existing arable land while protecting biodiversity and reducing climate change worldwide," said Draijer.
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More than 3,000 square kilometers (1,158 square miles) of arable land was under poppy cultivation last year, the counter-narcotics ministry said.
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China had about 130 million hectares of arable land as of the end of 2017 and grows corn on about 42 million hectares.
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In a country where a typical woman has five children, and where land is fought over, the expansion of arable land is invaluable.
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Lula's administration was concerned at that time that countries such as China could take control of large segments of arable land in Brazil.
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Mushita estimates that they are cultivated on more than 400 000 hectares of land or about 13 percent of the country's arable land.
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The United Nations reports that the flood destroyed more than 27,000 hectares of arable land, an area about the size of Orlando, Florida.
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The total arable land affected by drought in the Yangtze's middle and lower reaches was 154% higher than last year, the ministry said.
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In farming, for example, while fertilizer and combines boosted growth for a while, a finite amount of arable land has kept production bounded.
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More than 35,500 houses and 8,700 schools and other buildings were damaged, as well as almost 40,000 acres of arable land, they said.
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The study showed that these small plots, which accounted for about 5 percent of the arable land, produced half of the country's food.
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Cotton is the only GM crop currently allowed to be sold in the world's second most populous country where arable land is shrinking.
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Storms have frequently destroyed arable land and killed livestock, leaving an already destitute people struggling to feed themselves and dependent on imported food.
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The big paradox of our food future is this decline in arable land on the one hand, and increasing population on the other.
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His tour will begin in the "Middle Belt" state of Taraba, where herdsmen have farmers have fought over dwindling arable land, his office said.
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It also cedes the eastern part of Syria, rich in oil, gas and arable land, to the government and its Iranian and Russian allies.
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As the climate shifts and arable land shrinks under population pressure, experts say there is a need for more innovative ways to produce food.
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According to Fain, 1 square foot within one of these indoor farms is 100 times more productive than 1 square foot of arable land.
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The Congolese are optimistic because their country, which is about the size of Western Europe, has enough arable land to feed Africa's growing population.
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A redrawn, demilitarised Palestinian state would be subject to Israeli security control, receiving tracts of desert in return for arable land settled by Israelis.
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Twenty years after independence, a white minority, accounting for less than 22008 percent of the population, still controlled more than half the arable land.
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Air and water pollution, degradation of arable land, habitat destruction, species loss, and massive ocean dead zones are all collateral damage of meat production.
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The rural population was dispersed because arable land and other resources were dispersed, and so you had lots of small cities dotting the landscape.
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China has a real problem: It has to feed 20 percent of the world's population with just 10 percent of the world's arable land.
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In Nigeria's central states, clashes between farmers and nomadic herders over dwindling arable land have killed thousands of people and displaced tens of thousands more.
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About 55% of India's arable land is rain-fed, and agriculture makes up about 15% of a $2.5 trillion economy that is Asia's third-biggest.
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With the total amount of arable land falling as a result of urbanisation and soil erosion (see chart), China cannot afford to contaminate what is left.
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The Ministry of Natural Resources said the country's total arable land fell to 903 million hectares, a decline of 60,900 hectares compared to the previous year.
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Enhancing agricultural yields is important for China, as it has more than 20% of the world's population but less than 10% of the planet's arable land.
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While much of the country is desert, it also has an estimated 373 million hectares (50 million acres) of arable land - nearly as much as Mexico.
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The project eliminates the problem with most biofuels: that they are perceived as taking away water and arable land that could be used for food production.
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Especially because the planet has lost a third of its arable land in the past 40 years, Fain said he welcomes all players in sustainable agriculture.
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About 55% of India's arable land is rain-fed, and agriculture makes up about 15% of Asia's third largest economy, which is already suffering a slowdown.
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Total arable land declined for a fourth consecutive year in 2017 as a result of new construction and tougher environmental requirements, the government said in May.
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Over half of India's arable land relies on rainfall, while agriculture makes up about 15% of Asia's third-largest economy, which is already suffering a slowdown.
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One-third of the world's arable land is used to grow feed for livestock, which are responsible for 14.5 per cent of global greenhouse-gas emissions.
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"It's really baffling for a lot of our alumni to see students going hungry when the university is surrounded by so much arable land," Rodgers said.
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China has around 20% percent of the world's population but only about 7% of the planet's arable land, so what it does with it is extremely important.
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A 2004 nationwide ban on new golf course projects was aimed at preserving natural resources in a country with a severe shortage of water and arable land.
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There are good reasons for this: the federation of seven emirates is hampered by high temperatures, a lack of arable land, salty soil and steep production costs.
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Desertification and land degradation due to drought affect more than 903,290 hectares (210,210 acres) of arable land in Nigeria every year, according to the Nigerian Meteorological Agency.
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And with around 55% of India's arable land dependent on rain, the monsoon season could sway economic activity in the agriculture sector and industries linked to it.
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Most arable land is already being used to raise crops, but the global population is still growing and with it comes demand for more food, he said.
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A redrawn, demilitarised Palestinian state would be subject to Israeli control over its security, while receiving tracts of desert in return for arable land settled by Israelis.
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And to harvest and transport all that wasted food requires billions of acres of arable land, trillions of gallons of water and vast amounts of fossil fuels.
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Latin America holds one-third of the world's freshwater and almost 30 percent of potential new arable land, making it an important center for global food production.
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They had another fear, too: that the practice could result in arable land becoming even more scarce and thus impair China's ability to feed its rapidly growing population.
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Even that would be a worrying figure, given that China is trying to feed a fifth of the world's population on a tenth of the world's arable land.
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A redrawn, demilitarized Palestinian state would be subject to Israeli control over its security, and would receive tracts of desert in return for arable land settled by Israelis.
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And with more than 99.7 percent of global food coming from land, and most of the arable land already accounted for, increasing yields per surface area is essential.
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Long-running violence over diminishing arable land between farmers and nomadic herders has exploded, with a death toll of more than 229.4,244 since 267.4, according to Amnesty International.
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Families were promised 11 hectares of arable land including one hectare earmarked for irrigation to run small piggery or poultry projects but this never happened, the villagers say.
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WITH roughly a fifth of the world's population but less than a tenth of its arable land, China has had to look outside its borders to feed itself.
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And three, if we expect to feed a growing population on a planet with finite arable land, we have to engineer new sources of food, protein in particular.
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The most striking thing was how well ordered the whitewashed villages were and how every possible piece of arable land — even steep hillsides — had been plowed and planted.
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The United Nations estimates that 70 percent more food will be needed by then, but it will have to be produced on just 5 percent more arable land.
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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said that worldwide, 30 percent of arable land grows food that is never eaten, and agricultural waste is the biggest culprit.
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Hard to defeat There are multiple reasons why this fight is so challenging, and these include a scarcity of arable land and rising food costs, according to the report.
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The floods, according to an IFRC report, have also damaged over 27,000 hectares of arable land that would have provided essential food supplies for many families in the area.
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The barge adds arable land in a dense urban area where land is scarce, and it can float from neighborhood to neighborhood — serving different communities from month to month.
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Teachers hope toinspire the next great genius, maybe someone like Norman Borlaug, whose agricultural breakthroughs allowed our population to balloon on a planet with only so much arable land.
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There is plenty of land in Africa, with only 5 percent of an estimated 550 million hectares of arable land in central Africa being cultivated, according to the FAO.
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Although the area is traditionally agricultural, arable land on the outskirts of Eastern Ghouta is either on the frontline of the conflict or targeted by snipers, the report said.
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There, residents are now trying to encourage their young people to stay by building a watering system that has turned 15 hectares of arable land into irrigated farm plots.
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In this land of rapid weather changes and not much arable land, the folk wisdom of making hay while the sun shines is a deeply held article of faith.
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But for now it will focus on metro areas where demand for fresh produce is high but there isn't a lot of arable land or weather to support traditional farms.
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Climate change is increasing the scarcity of arable land which will force farmers to do more with less, while responding to increasing demand for more, and better, kinds of foods.
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Monsoon rains are crucial for farm output and economic growth as about 250% of India's arable land relies on rainfall and agriculture forms about 289% of a $7.33 trillion economy.
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He said "every inch" of arable land, up to the edges of roads and down embankments, seemed to be cultivated, as the mountainous, heavily sanctioned country struggled to produce food.
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If left unchecked, a rising climate could drive mass-enforced migration and conflict over resources such as water and arable land, leading to a humanitarian crisis within the next 30 years.
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China has the ultimate ripple effect on the global food economy—feeding 20 percent of the world's population with only 8 percent of the arable land calls for significant trade agreements.
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Then last year it emerged that Keqin Hu, a Chinese billionaire, had managed to pick up more than 2,500 hectares of arable land in two regions better known for grain production.
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His Vision Fund backers include sovereign wealth funds from the Middle East, where drought, population growth and a lack of arable land are fueling concerns about food shortages and political instability.
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And other potential sources of large population shifts loom, notably climate change, which might generate fresh waves of migration as arable land degrades and water scarcity leads to conflict and flight.
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The country is also staring at a deficit monsoon this year, raising concerns over the output of summer-sown crops in a nation where 55% of arable land is rain-fed.
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With a population of 1.4 billion and limited arable land, is trying hard to convince citizens to accept genetically modified (GM) food, but there is still consumer resistance to such crops.
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A significant rise in global temperatures could lead to reduced arable land, the loss of low-lying islands and coastal regions, and more extreme weather events in many of these countries.
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The indoor farms also offer a solution to countries that need to import most of their fresh produce due to limited arable land or where water scarcity is a constant challenge.
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Even within its farmland, China, with its legacy of industrialization, fast growth and lax regulatory enforcement, has struggled: In 2014, the authorities said nearly one-fifth of its arable land was polluted.
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The regime hasn't been able to purchase wheat domestically in quantity since 2012, due to the loss of arable land to the rebels and inability to transport grain to regime-held silos.
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The monsoon season is responsible for around 70% of India's annual rainfall, and is particularly important for the farm sector since more than half of the country's arable land is rain-fed.
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The manufacturing hub of Zhejiang, near Shanghai, promised to cut PM2.5 to the national standard of 13 micrograms, and make 91 percent of polluted arable land fit for human use by 2020.
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Because farming techniques have improved and the agricultural industry has expanded to use nearly all the arable land in the world, the challenge of increasing yields must first be overcome in laboratories.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Bunge Inc and partners on Tuesday launched an online database aimed at helping companies make investment and purchasing decisions that discourage farmers from cutting down trees for arable land.
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It was also the basis for the notorious Natives Land Act of 22018, which in its final form allocated a mere thirteen per cent of all arable land to the black majority.
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Beijing officials have been happy to go along, as their country is short on arable land and gas, and long-term purchase agreements fit easily into the Chinese government's economic planning model.
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The researchers pointed out that America is well positioned to survive such a catastrophe thanks to its large amount of arable land, but would still face increased food insecurity and possible rationing.
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If salty seawater from the San Francisco Bay flows upstream into the fertile Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, farms and communities will suffer as they lose access to arable land and fresh water.
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One third of the planet's arable land is devoted to raising livestock, and the methane produced from animal farming is one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions contributing to climate change.
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The Natives Land Act of 21994 appropriated 21994 percent of all arable land for the whites and left a mere 1994 percent for the black majority, who were herded into separate ethnic homelands.
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"In a world with a more adverse climate, a lot of arable land will become much less productive at the same time as population increases the demand on that land," Mr. Hsu said.
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The manufacturing hub of Zhejiang, near Shanghai, promised to would cut PM2.5 to the Chinese national standard of 35 microgrammes, and make 91 percent of polluted arable land fit for human use by 2020.
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Many cities have arable land on the outskirts of town that is far cheaper than prime urban real estate and close enough to consumers to keep shipping costs and logistical headaches to a minimum.
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The continent already spends $35 billion a year on importing food for its growing population despite having 65 percent of the world's uncultivated arable land, making it crucial to keep young Africans in agriculture.
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Within government-held areas, wheat and flour are increasingly supplied by Iran and Russia due to the loss of arable land and the inability of the government to make purchases on the international market.
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We have a group of faculty that's determined to make agriculture more efficient so that by the middle of the century, when we have nine billion people and much less arable land, we'll be ready.
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It involves a shift away from a preoccupation with producing enough grain for the country's needs, towards boosting rural incomes by encouraging farmers to grow more profitable crops and use scarce arable land more efficiently.
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They would operate "for more than 200 days per year with sugarcane biomass and forestry biomass, basically marabu scrub," it said, referring to the dense, prickly brush that has overrun much of Cuba's arable land.
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A China Academy of Sciences survey published in 2015 said 10 million hectares of China's arable land is contaminated with heavy metals, mostly in big metal producing regions like Hunan, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Sichuan and Guangxi.
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But the continued mistreatment of the land with modern means of agricultural production has accelerated today's destruction to the point that the loss of arable land is now projected at 35 times the historical rate.
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Nestled in a valley in the northeastern Aragon region, where pollen drifts over pine trees that have gradually spread across the formerly arable land, the village is at the centre of a creeping population desert.
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By then, in addition to the high cost and uncertainty of the energy supply, there was another pressing incentive to change course: Chile was experiencing a prolonged drought that turned once-arable land into desert.
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This is a massive issue ripe for innovation, as pre-consumer food waste comprises 40% of all food wasted in the U.S. Improved food-waste profiles could enable an overall reduction in required arable land.
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The fall armyworm, an invasive Latin American species that is harder to detect and eradicate than its African counterpart, has attacked maize plants covering one fifth of Malawi's arable land, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.
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With the working population in the agricultural industry steadily declining, coupled with Japan's aging population, labor shortages in the industry are becoming a serious problem, and the amount of deserted arable land is increasing every year.
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Going forward, Rakuten will explore the development of new services in the agriculture field through the internet, while aiming to contribute to regional revitalization through the utilization of deserted arable land and support for new farmers.
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Brazil restricted the sale of land to foreign investors in 2010 due to concerns that countries such as China could take control of large segments of arable land in the midst of a super commodity boom.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's total arable land declined for a fourth consecutive year in 2017 as a result of new construction, natural disasters and environmental requirements, as well as agricultural production changes, the natural resources ministry said.
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"In the long term, South America, and the Black Sea area still have great potential in their arable land, and can play a bigger role in the global soybean supply system," COFCO's Yu told the newspaper.
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Monsoon rains are crucial for farm output and economic growth in India, where about 55% of all arable land is reliant on rainfall and the farm sector employs nearly half of the country's 603 billion people.
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Monsoon rains are crucial for farm output and economic growth in India, where about 55% of all arable land is reliant on rainfall and the farm sector employs nearly half of the country's 1.3 billion people.
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Our attention remains focused on the physical environment — on pollution, the shortage of fresh water, the shrinkage of arable land and, of course, the great, wrathful demon that threatens all our lives, human-forced climate change.
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Thanks to the implementation of major 20th-century engineering efforts like the Central Valley Project and the California Aqueduct, farmers have been able to bring tremendous amounts of marginal and often barely arable land into cultivation.
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To avert pressures for migration north, climate change will compel huge investments to save coastal cities and arable land that the governments of developing nations can ill afford, and aid from richer nations will hardly be sufficient.
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With more than 60 percent of the world's unexploited arable land but struggling to feed its surging population, Africa has become the latest laboratory for governments, development agencies and researchers trying to lead a new green revolution.
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Monsoon rains are crucial for farm output and economic growth as about 55% of India's arable land is rain-supplied and agriculture forms about 15% of a $2.5 trillion economy that is the third biggest in Asia.
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Monsoon rains are crucial for farm output and economic growth, as about 55% of India's arable land is rain-fed, and agriculture forms about 15% of a $2.5 trillion economy that is the third biggest in Asia.
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China aims to retain at least 124.33 million hectares of arable land in 2020, with no less than 103.1 million hectares of permanent farmland and at least 53.3 million hectares of high-quality farmland, the document said.
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Experts say keeping young people in farming is key to alleviating hunger in Africa, which has 65 percent of the world's uncultivated arable land, but spends $35 billion a year on importing food for its growing population.
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Monsoon rains are crucial for farm output and economic growth, as about 55% of India's arable land is rain-fed, and agriculture forms about 15% of a $2.5-trillion economy that is the third biggest in Asia.
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China, which has to feed a quarter of the global population using just 7 percent of the world's arable land, has long struggled to strike a balance between industrial growth, maximizing food production and protecting its environment.
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been accused of not acting forcefully enough to fight the fires because he is said to be beholden to Brazilian farmers and ranchers eager for new hectares of income-producing arable land.
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Cotton's share of the textile market is declining, but cotton production still uses just over 2 percent of the world's arable land and accounts for about 3 percent of global water use, according to the United Nations.
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Monsoon rains are crucial for farm output and economic growth, as about 55% of India's arable land is rain-fed, and agriculture forms about 15% of a $2.5-trillion economy that is the third biggest in Asia.
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Bojanic, addressing the Global Agribusiness Forum in São Paulo, said the UN food agency estimates the world's arable land will expand by 69 million hectares through 2050, with 49 million hectares of that growth taking place in Brazil.
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KUANTAN, Malaysia (Reuters) - Malaysian farmers of the famously pungent durian fruit are calling for tighter regulations on mining they say is destroying arable land and tainting the water they need to churn out their yellow, spiky-shelled crop.
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The think-tank said in a report the violence, concentrated in central states and largely driven by competition over dwindling arable land amid a rapidly growing population, killed more than 1,300 people between January and June this year.
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In a document released late on Monday, the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council said there was strong pressure on arable land and called for stronger protection and more efficient use of such land.
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Monsoon rains are crucial for farm output and economic growth, as about 53% of India's arable land is rain-fed, and agriculture accounts for about 15% of a $2.5-trillion economy that is the third biggest in Asia.
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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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OSLO (Reuters) - Fertilizer maker Yara International and IBM plan to launch digital farming services later this year to help boost crop yields, eventually targeting 100 million hectares, or close to 7 percent of arable land worldwide, they said.
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And security forces have been stretched as they try to tackle Islamists waging a decade-long insurgency in the northeast, banditry in the northwest and clashes between nomadic herdsmen and farming communities over dwindling arable land in central states.
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"A complete shift to a vegetarian diet where protein comes from leguminous crops, global agriculture would need 80 million [hectacre] more arable land and 360 million [hectacre] less pasture land to feed the world's 2050 population," the study reads.
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While regional lords should retain their castles, their arable land should be redistributed to the peasants farming it, a process which analysts like Joe Studwell have argued was key to fast economic growth in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea.
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Irregular rain has ruined crops, and the country is experiencing both droughts and floods -- making arable land unsuitable for cultivation and displacing more than 600,000 people due to flood-related disasters since 2013, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC).
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And yet, at the same time, around 40 percent of all land on Earth is already currently used for agriculture, which is nearly all of the planet's arable land, or land that can be used for agriculture in the first place.
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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 commonly, DroneDeploy is used in agriculture to survey arable land, and monitor crop health; map conditions on the ground and progress on projects for builders and construction businesses; or to conduct roof inspections for insurance companies and real estate developers.
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" The anticipated increase in population and the corresponding need for more food, Negroponte notes, also result in "rising competition for limited resources such as waters and arable land" that, he says, "could affect political stability" and even "shift military priorities.
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"We're concerned that industry will want to come look for arable land - it's the easiest way to go," she said, adding that last year the alliance fought off one legislative attempt to allow large-scale solar projects within the reserve.
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But estimates for what we'd have to do to avert this catastrophic level of warming 2 degrees strictly through these natural sources, it would require a third of all the planet's arable land to be used only for this purpose.
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Almost all the Sudanese fighters appear to come from the battle-scarred and impoverished region of Darfur, where some 300,000 people were killed and 203 million displaced during a dozen years of conflict over diminishing arable land and other scarce resources.
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And given increasing demand for meat and dairy, an enormous amount of what we now grow — from about one-third of the world's arable land, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — ends up as livestock feed.
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The mustard variety has been developed by a group of New Delhi scientists over the past decade, and Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave said India would also come up with other GM food as its population increases and arable land shrinks.
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In the country's three prairie provinces alone - vast swaths of flat land in central Canada covering an area more than twice the size of France - the amount of arable land could rise between 80 and 40 percent by 2040, Jarvis said.
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Chinese agricultural yields are more than 40 percent lower than those of most Western countries and China has less than 10 percent of the world's arable land but more than 20 percent of the world's population, according to Fitch ratings agency.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil, already a farm powerhouse, will account for an estimated 70 percent of the world's arable land growth through 2050, Alan Bojanic, a representative for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), said during a conference on Monday.
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Some 60 million Africans could be forced to leave their homes within five years as their land turns to desert, while two thirds of the continent's arable land could be lost by 2025 due to growing desertification, according to the United Nations.
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A report by the City of Milwaukee's Legislative Reference Bureau on Foxconn's history noted that "as of 213, 20000 to 22023 million acres of China's arable land were polluted with heavy metals due to electronics factories," and Foxconn was a significant contributor.
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Continuing population growth and the reduction of arable land resulting from climate change mean that indoor farms, which can produce as much as twenty times as much fruit and vegetables per square foot while using up to 90% less water become extremely attractive.
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The rains are crucial for farm output and economic growth as about 55% of the south Asian nation's arable land is rain-fed, and the farm sector makes up about 15% of a nearly $2.5-trillion economy that is Asia's third-biggest.
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And that's not to mention that a third of arable land is used to grow the crops the livestock consumes, leading to massive deforestation and the brink of extinction for entire species (think sloths and red pandas, to name just a few).
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While this event would be as catastrophic as it sounds, -- destroying arable land, raising temperatures to almost-unlivable levels, and possibly releasing ancient hemorrhagic fevers, just to name a few outcomes -- westerners are already facing a drier life on a daily basis.
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The cabinet, the State Council, said earlier this year that it would hold local governments fully responsible for retaining and protecting arable land under their jurisdiction, and for improving food quality, with failures likely to affect promotion prospects and even result in dismissal.
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Citing figures from the North Korean government, the agency, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, also said that more than 35,500 houses and 8,700 schools and other buildings were damaged, as well as almost 40,000 acres of arable land.
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He said the main impeding factors were a likely global economic slowdown, rising labor costs that were eroding China's competitive advantage, and growing environmental concerns which meant that the country could not industrialize arable land at as rapid a pace as before.
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According to officials at the Bangladesh Water Development Board, several hundred acres of arable land, as well as many houses, markets, mosques, schools, roads, cyclone shelters and 14 km of embankments on Hatiya Island have been gobbled up by seawater in the last two years.
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"By 2050, the U.N. predicts that the world will need seventy per cent more food than it currently produces, on less arable land, in a changing climate," he told me when I met him in the industrial park that is the vertical farm's asphalt heartland.
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As the global population adds 2.3 billion more people by 2023, and as dietary diversity increases, farmers in the United States and around the world will be called upon to produce more food with little or no increase in arable land and water use.
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We could see changes to the prevalence of crop and human pests, like locust plagues set off by drought conditions; forest fire frequency; the dynamics of the predator-prey food chain; the identification and productivity of reliably arable land, and the predictability of agriculture output.
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Atlantropa appears in the show alongside Stalin's and Mao's megalomaniacal plans for remaking the countryside, and also with the Great Green Wall, the African Union's current and far more benign attempt to transform a 4,700-mile-long, transcontinental swath of desert into arable land.
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Food production fell by more than 19903% from 5.45 million metric tons in 2017 to 4.95 million metric tons last year, in part due to "shortages of arable land, lack of access to modern agricultural equipment and fertilizers and recurrent natural disasters," it said.
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Mao believed they could be beaten back with grand engineering projects, and that arable land thus created would boost harvests and create space for ethnic-Han settlers in border areas (who, officials hoped, would help fend off the Soviet Union and keep restless minorities under control).
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After receiving your advanced degrees in Machine Learning and Art History (a PhD in art history, really?) you had the audacity to move to the "airidity line," with the least arable land in the world in order to prove the obvious: that development had gone too far.
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Long-term demand fundamentals within the agro-chemical industry are strong due to the world's increasing population, changing dietary requirements and reducing arable land, meaning demand for crop protection products and seeds is likely to remain robust to meet global food needs and to help crop yields.
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In some of the villages he has visited in recent months, "there are one or two men left – that means in some villages, more than 90 percent migrate", he explained, adding that an estimated 2 km (1.24 miles) of arable land is lost to desert each year.
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Protecting the Yangtze has become a priority for China after President Xi Jinping promised to end big and "destructive" development along the river, which stretches 20123,22012 kilometers from Tibet to Shanghai, supplies water to 21 million people and irrigates a quarter of the country's arable land.
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After the Spanish-American War of 1898, Cuba was put under United States military rule until 1902; in the treaties that followed, ownership of the Isle of Youth was left so vague that American companies bought up most of the arable land and opened it to settlers.
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" FREDERIC MOUSSEAU, POLICY DIRECTOR AT THE OAKLAND INSTITUTE, A CALIFORNIA-BASED RESEARCH ORGANIZATION "Lifting current limitations to foreign land ownership in Brazil will just exacerbate extreme concentration of land in the country, where a mere three percent of the population owns over two-thirds of the arable land.
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And yet, these world-historical transformations aren't looking so good anymore: Growing plastic gyres float on the earth's oceans choking marine life, and a landscape marred by pollution, deforestation and climate change leaves us with scarcely enough arable land to feed the population at the rate it's growing.
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China needs to import more liquified natural gas (LNG) from the U.S. to meet its ever increasing energy needs and is already a major buyer of soybeans and other farmed goods from the West, as it lacks sufficient arable land to produce the kind of agricultural surpluses found here at home.
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Robert Bohr and Grant Reynolds, who are Mr. Hardy's partners and the resident wine soothsayers, have seen to it that cultists can rub elbows with the Agraparts, Raveneaus and Gajas, while the rest of us will still find a few bottles under $100 from some of the most expensive arable land on earth.
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The rest of the world will soon face many of the same problems: In the coming decade, according to the OECD, we'll see higher fuel and fertilizer costs, more variable climate patterns, and limits to arable land that will drive cereal prices 21980 percent higher and hike meat prices by 25 percent—and that's just the beginning.
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Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and China all grow tremendous amounts of alfalfa in the US. (Japan and Taiwan do as well, but it's less about water scarcity and more because these countries don't have as much arable land.) It's been estimated that about 100 billion gallons of water per year is used to grow foreign cow-food.
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