Under land management, adaptation options included afforestation, reforestation of marginal lands and protection of arable land.

We'd go from three percent of the arable land, to four percent.

The land on his farm is very fertile.

Israeli forces had destroyed 10 per cent of the arable land in Gaza.

Nineteen million hectares of rainforest are lost every year to create new arable land.

Turn it into a square that stands for all the arable land on Earth.

Only seven percent of arable land in Africa is irrigated, compared to 40 percent in Asia.

The world is likely to lose one third of its arable land by the end of the century.

The Israeli forces had also destroyed thousands of hectares of arable land and hundreds of wells and agricultural warehouses.

That's the Sahara eating up almost two meters a day of the arable land, physically pushing people away from their homes.

Without access to fertile land, uncontaminated water and a healthy biological ecosystem, farmers' livelihood is in danger.

Same idea series of semi independent city states, little blobs of metropolitan stuff with arable land around, joined to one another by railway.

Agricultural activity in Anguilla is limited due to a combination of factors, including poor soil, the small amount of arable land and irregular rainfall.

Although crop land per capita will continue to decline, more arable land is available worldwide than previously thought. The example of the use of the Brazilian cerrado, once considered useless, augurs well for the African savannas.

During the 2004 planting season, it was estimated that less than 30 per cent of arable land was cultivated in 2005 this percentage is likely to decline even further.

And it was also fertile.

The soil here is fertile.

Myanmar possesses considerable development potential, given its fertile agricultural land, a rich endowment of other natural resources and potential as a locus of regional trade.

According to United Nations agencies on the ground, this situation is the result of a combination of factors, including drought, infestation, land pressure and reduced amounts of arable land for households, reduced land productivity and malnutrition, resulting from cycles of common and chronic diseases, including malaria and HIV AIDS.

There is a great struggle for use of the most fertile land, from the viewpoint of its social economic potential (irrigated land, next to the markets, with access to diverse transports or social services, etc.).

Injustice is a fertile ground for breeding violence.

And one of the other things that happened in the Three Gorges a lot of the agricultural land that you see there on the left was also lost some of the most fertile agricultural land was lost in that.

Its citizens were less socially and economically stratified than in many other US states. After World War II, Americans migrated steadily to California, a land of opportunity, great natural beauty, and some of the world s most fertile agricultural land.

If you move the dots down to the bottom of the rectangle you can see that the cities for the existing three billion urban residents take up only three percent of the arable land on earth.

Food supply has not collapsed (1.5 billion hectares of arable land are being used, but another 2.7 billion hectares are in reserve). Malnourishment has dropped by more than half, from 35 of the world s population to under 16 .

In several developing countries, it is observed that the deficit in the production of food is exacerbating conflicts related to access to natural resources, particularly fertile land, now an increasingly scarce resource.

Because for me, it feels like a fertile, creative medium.

It's rain. Africa is fertile. They can grow the crops.

19 Owing to factors such as population growth, desertification and land degradation, arable land per member of the agricultural population of most developing countries has been declining for the past 30 years Ruth S. Meinzen Dick and others, Gender and property rights an overview , World Development, vol. 25, No. 8 (1997).

By February 2004, the construction of the Barrier had already entailed the confiscation of around 270 sq. km of Palestinian land, including the most fertile areas in the West Bank, and 49 wells.

Cervical and breast cancers are most common among young, fertile mothers.

The latter provides fertile ground for corruption, extremism and organized crime.

I come from a rich and fertile land which has throughout its honourable past given the blood of its children, such as Al Hussein and subsequently Al Sadr, to protect freedom and human rights.

Over the region as a whole, the deficit in the production of food aggravates food insecurity and exacerbates conflicts related to access to natural resources, particularly fertile land, which is now an increasingly scarce resource.

Loss of the ancient cedar, pine, fir, and oak forests on the slopes above is another matter. This year s snowmelt caused landslides and flooding a warning of more soil erosion and destruction of arable land to come hundreds died and thousands lost their livelihoods.

Women make over 51 of the population, 25 of them being in fertile age.

Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the midst of fertile pasture land, let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the midst of fertile pasture land, let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

Long term estimates project that over a 50 year time horizon, most of the planet s arable land would have to be used to feed the world and for forest conservation. Thus, areas dedicated to energy production, particularly biofuel, may not reach the level that societies would wish.

The Committee is concerned about the situation of rural women and regrets that the report did not provide sufficient information on their de facto position in all sectors, including education, health and employment, and in regard to their access to credit, arable land and drinking water.

More generally, construction materials and construction services seem to be fertile ground for cartel operators.

Tourism thrives on a pristine environment, and it therefore provides fertile ground for testing innovative policies.

And they can be completely fertile have the same number of progeny as the normal worms do.

A more immediate challenge is ensuring that crops receive sufficient water, which requires building and maintaining efficient irrigation systems to stabilize yields and enable farmers to harvest an additional crop each year. As it stands, only 4 of arable land in Sub Saharan Africa is irrigated, compared to 38 in Asia.

This legislation establishes a system of prior authorization for the exercise of the import, export, production, possession, transfer, use or transport of fusible, fissile or fertile nuclear material or any material, with the exception of ore, containing one or more fusible, fissile or fertile elements.