Figure 11 Proportion of land area covered by forest (2004)

The role of satellite data and GIS techniques in land use is exemplified by a study undertaken to establish optimum land use in the Irbid area by investigating the geomorphological, topographical, land cover and agricultural aspects of the area.

Mars is half the size of the Earth, but because two thirds of the Earth is covered by water, the land area on Mars is comparable to the land area on Earth.

Although complex, that structure seemed suited to the country's vast land area.

Agricultural area as a percentage of total land area also varied widely, ranging from 0.6 per cent for Jordan to 82 per cent for Turkmenistan.

As a result, cultivated land resources comprise a mere 5 per cent of the total land area, representing 22 million hectares of land, with very limited scope for expansion.

The developed country Parties provide support for several programmes in the area of sustainable land management.

Effective management links land and water uses across the whole of a catchment area or groundwater aquifer.

In 1939, when the war began, Canada had a tiny population on a vast area of land.

Invites the Global Environment Facility to strengthen the focal area of land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation

4. Invites the Global Environment Facility to strengthen the focal area of land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation

6. Invites the Global Environment Facility to strengthen the focal area of land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation

Fifty years ago, such anomalies covered only two to three tenths of one percent of the land area.

By the end of 2002, agricultural land had been allotted to approximately 12 million farmer households and 91.74 of the households were granted with agricultural land use certificates, taking up 87.02 of the agricultural land area.

Invites the Global Environment Facility to strengthen the focal area of land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation, and calls upon Global Environment Facility donors to increase substantially the level of resources to be allocated to the land degradation focal area during the fourth replenishment of the Facility

The projects and programmes conducted in the area of the rehabilitation of degraded land do not always include appropriate mechanisms for evaluating the impact of the activities involved or for determining the area of land rehabilitated, for which figures are given in less than a quarter of the reports.

7. Invites the Global Environment Facility to strengthen the focal area of land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation, and calls upon Global Environment Facility donors to increase substantially the level of resources to be allocated to the land degradation focal area during the fourth replenishment of the Facility

The GEF's Small Grants Programme (SGP) managed by UNDP was recently amended to include the focal area of land degradation.

And the numbers of people living in an area that the land cannot support, who are too poor to buy food, who can't move away because the whole land is degraded.

You would say yeah, yeah, yeah, we all know this water covers twice the area of the planet than dry land.

As a result of our conservation efforts, Bhutan has successfully maintained 72.5 per cent of its land area under forest cover.

Out of the total area of Bosnia and Herzegovina (5,113,000 hectares), forests and forest land account for 53 per cent (2,700,770 hectares or 0.71 hectares of forest and forest land per capita).

An important aspect in this regard has been cooperation in the context of the GEF and its focal area on land degradation.

In the ROPME Sea Area (the Kuwait Convention region), litter is an increasing problem, generated from land, shore and ship based activities.

Iraq further argues that Saudi Arabia's use of land area as the measure for quantifying ecological service losses and gains is inappropriate.

The Agreement provides for the establishment of the Labrador Inuit Settlement Area (Settlement Area) totalling approximately 72,500 square kilometres of land in northern Labrador, including 15,800 square kilometres of Inuit owned lands, known as Labrador Inuit Lands.

According to Iraq, although acquisition of land for a marine and coastal preserve typically involves an area of seabed and associated intertidal zone, Saudi Arabia appears to have based its estimates of the cost of land acquisition on the value of prime beachfront land.

The setting up, within the GEF, of a thematic area for combating land degradation can be interpreted as a positive response to that call.

More than 90 per cent of the land in the region is hyper arid or desert, while the remaining area is classified as dry .

Emphasizing the need for the provision of adequate resources for the focal area of land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation, of the Global Environment Facility,

Emphasizing the need for the provision of adequate resources for the focal area of land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation, of the Global Environment Facility,

Yangcheng Evening News Reporter Zhao Yanhua This afternoon, not less than 13 developers competed for the Jianhong Chemical Plant site. The Jianhong Chemical Plant site at Huangpu Road in Tianhe District is a Class 2 land parcel for residential use (R2), with site area of 17,304 m2 (land available for construction 15,178 m2), and gross floor area of 45,534 m2.

Elsewhere, a Class 2 land parcel for residential use (R2) at Chan Chu Shi North Road, Tonghe Dongkeng, Baiyun District, was also offered for sale today, with site area of 32,891 m2 (land available for construction 30,965 m2), and gross floor area of 92,895 m2. The listed starting price was RMB613.11 million, equivalent to RMB6,600 per m2 per plot ratio.

You may have seen this in other forms, but the top line is the amount of protected area on land, globally, and it's about 12 percent.

The Agreement also provides for the establishment of the Torngat Mountains National Park Reserve, consisting of approximately 9,600 square kilometres of land within the Settlement Area.

Indeed, the allocation of 250 million to the focal area of land degradation had been grossly inadequate and should be increased in the fourth replenishment cycle.

The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) used remote sensing data in constructing area frame samples (using data from small sample areas as an aid to estimating crops and acreages), crop specific land cover mapping, direct estimation of planted crop area, and assessment of crop conditions.

So they just started spreading this on the land around, and the combination of that and the elevated humidity had quite a dramatic effect on the local area.

As noted in paragraph 5 above, the proportion of land area covered by forests is one of the indicators associated with the Millennium Development Goal on environmental sustainability.

In the area of land reform, although the Agrarian Act seemed to protect the rights of women to own and manage land, it did not appear to be widely implemented the provisions of the Act, especially those regarding women, must be applied.

While there were many unresolved issues, the end of colonial settlement in one part of Palestinian land, the Gaza Strip even though it represented only 6 per cent of the total land area of the occupied Palestinian territory was a positive development.

Drylands occupy 41 per cent of the Earth's land area and are home to more than two billion people a third of the human population in the year 2000.

In such a context, the designation of land degradation mainly desertification and deforestation as an area of GEF action has done much to raise hopes in affected developing countries.

The surface of the land area administered by the Herdsmen's Committee is approximately 248,000 hectares, of which some 16,100 hectares of forests (about 6 per cent of the land areas administered by the Committee) are used for the purposes of forestry on State owned lands.

The GEF will provide the Conference of the Parties with the reports of the GEF Office of Monitoring and Evaluation relevant to GEF activities in the area of land degradation.