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November 23, 2001: World Grain Harvest Falling Short by 54 Million Tons
With 40 percent of the world's grain harvest produced on irrigated land, anything that reduces the irrigation water supply reduces the food supply. The wildcard in the ... . The drought will eventually end, but water shortages will not. In a country dependent on irrigated land for 70 percent of its grain, water shortages are fast becoming a security issue. (See ...
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The Regional Impacts of Climate Change
Permanent Pasture FAO FAOSTAT 95 [LC17104] Forest and Woodland FAO FAOSTAT 95 [LC17105] Other Land FAO FAOSTAT 95 [LC17106] Water Resources per Capita Compiled by World Resources Institute ... Resources Institute [WA22109] Agriculture Annual Water Withdrawals Compiled by World Resources Institute [WA22109] Irrigated Land FAO FAOSTAT 95 [FA18203 Agricultural Labor Force FAO FAOSTAT 95 [FA18509] Total ...
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The Regional Impacts of Climate Change
African economies are highly dependent on agriculture: Arable land and permanent pasture occupy one-third of the land area of Africa. Agriculture constitutes approximately 30% of GDP ... Regional agriculture in Africa. Region (1) Population Density (pop/km2) Population Growth (%) Crop Land (% of total) Irrigated Land (% of total) Average Yield of Cereals (kg/ha) Fertilizer Use (kg/yr) ...
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Production Candidate SDI
Candidate SDI: Irrigated Arable Land (311 UN CSD) Definition: Irrigation % of arable land SDI Framework Element: Agricultural Land (1.2.2.1) Element Characteristic: Amount of Irrigated Land ... Runoff of pesticides and related chemicals due to excessive use in agricultural land Candidate SDI: Agricultural Pesticide Use (308 UN CSD) Definition: Use of ...
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Can China Feed Itself? Index
Irrigation - Irrigated area, 1978 - 1996 J K L Land Land - Underreporting of arable land / data quality Land - Various estimates of China's arable land area Land - New IIASA estimates of cultivated land area Land - Trends in cultivated land ...
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Montana Water Trust - Benefitting Landowners, Streamflows and Communities
The difference in value between irrigated and non-irrigated land represents the incremental value attributable to the water rights. 3. Income ... conditions by considering the physical characteristics of the land, irrigation application, delivery system, and crop yields under irrigated and non-irrigated conditions. This method accounts for the avoided ...
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Maan dam
Despite this from 1991 to 1994, the state ... flooded within a month; People demand better financial package to ensure land based rehabilitation, stop felling of trees, state repression. April 16 ...
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Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble, Chapter 8: Raising Land Productivity--Introduction world population global economy bubble economy sustainable yield sustainable development carbon dioxide climate change global average
Stress and a Civilization in Trouble, Chapter 8: Raising Land Productivity--Introduction world population global economy bubble economy sustainable ... the world's grain harvest from irrigated land to 40 percent. Now growth in the irrigated area is slowing as many countries ... to cities.6 As high-yielding varieties spread and irrigated area expanded, fertilizer use climbed from 14 million tons ...
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Argument - Arable Land Intervention Possibilities
The real problems, however, are economic, administrative, and political. China's ... successful if the land were owned by the farmers. For instance, farmers would be more motivated to prevent salinization of irrigated cropland through adequate leaching. Related Arguments Arable Land: Trends ...
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Marin Agricultural Land Trust
We ask that you actively support public policies and private organizations like the Marin Agricultural Land Trust which help protect and preserve these farms and ranches. Most importantly, buy local agricultural ... such as nitrogen-producing zorrofescue are planted between the irrigated rows which seem to thrive on both the hills above and the flat land near the lake. Trees are regularly pruned from ...
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