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January 23, 2003: Population Growth Leading to Land Hunger
National Commission on Agriculture was already linking farm fragmentation and a rising reliance on marginal lands to declining farm productivity in some areas. Since then, the country has grown ... Environment in 1990-92, has noted that rapid population growth led to farm fragmentation, land degradation, deforestation, and famine. These stresses ignited the undercurrent of ethnic strife, erupting in ...
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May 23, 2001: Dust Bowl Threatening China‘s Future
Now accelerating wind erosion of soil and the resulting land abandonment are forcing people to migrate eastward, ... California during the Dust Bowl years. While plows are clearing land, expanding livestock populations are denuding the land of vegetation. Following economic reforms in 1978 and the removal ...
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World Linkages
An example of this practice is the export of cattle such as these raised on marginal land in Botswana. photo credit: P ...
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Kutzadika'a People
Violent conflict between Kutzadika’a and the European American settlers was rare to non-existent, but the native people were forced to occupy marginal land ... and farms and worked for the new landowners in order to survive on the very land that once was theirs. Today there are only a handful of Kutzadika’a descendents living ...
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Energy Future Coalition
By one estimate, devoting the entire ... that yield cellulosic ethanol can be grown specifically for energy, in some cases on agriculturally marginal land without pesticides or fertilizer. And the energy-in energy-out balance is terrific: it gives ...
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American Farmland Trust: Resources - Farming on the Edge Report
Wasteful land use puts America's farmland at risk, especially our most ... of prime land was 30 percent faster, proportionally, than the rate for non-prime rural land from 1992-1997. This results in marginal land, which ... of our dairy products, are produced in urban-influenced areas. Wasteful land use is the problem, not growth itself. From 1982-1997, ...
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ForestHarvest Business Directory - Skye Fruit and Fungi
Highland Berry Growers Group, developing ways of growing native berries on marginal land. Products Fresh and dried mushrooms, inoculated logs Species traded Birch (Betula spp.) Oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ...
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Land-Atmosphere-Ice-Snow Interactions in the High Arctic
Land-Atmosphere-Ice-Snow Interactions in the High Arctic select by topic: Topics ... of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 phone: 413-545-0659 fax: 413-545-1200 Land-Atmosphere-Ice and Snow Interactions in the High Arctic: the Hazen Plateau, ... and Simmons Ice Cap (also see table below). Both ice caps experienced considerable marginal recession since 2001, which resulted in a reduction in total ice cap area ...
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Land Use History of the Colorado Plateau-The Arizona Strip (part 1 of 3)
Land Use History of the Colorado Plateau-The Arizona Strip (part 1 of 3) Search the ... on the patterns of human settlement and agriculture throughout the southwestern United States, particularly on marginal, arid lands, such as those of the Arizona Strip. Follow these links to: Page 2 ...
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Land Use History of The Little Colorado River Basin in Arizona
Unpredictable precipitation, short growing seasons, marginal soils, silting of reservoirs, increasing saltiness of the river downstream, and overgrazing of grasslands ... climatically variable Colorado Plateau was eventually achieved by a system of tithing redistribution. An original land-use essay for CP-LUHNA by Dr. William S. Abruzzi.
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