Hundreds of thousands of acres of forests are cut down to produce drugs.

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

Thousands of hectares of agricultural land were not exploited because of the danger of mines, thereby substantially impeding the economic development of those regions.

Saudi Arabia multiplied the asserted loss of production per hectare by the total number of hectares to obtain a total production loss of approximately 3,033 tonnes.

Saudi Arabia multiplied the asserted loss of production per hectare by the total number of hectares to obtain a total production loss of approximately 6,124 tonnes.

The law provides reparation for the victims of human rights violations in the course of a 60 year conflict, as well as restitution of millions of hectares stolen from peasants.

The occupying Israeli forces continued to destroy industrial installations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, as well as thousands of hectares of agricultural land that would take decades to restore.

Despite credible early warnings, a swarm of desert locusts attacked more than 10 countries in West and North Africa, destroying millions of hectares of crops.

Despite that complication, the Government had managed to substantially reduce the number of hectares devoted to coca farming and had introduced a programme to provide the affected families with alternative crop projects.

In Africa, despite considerable warnings nine months prior, a massive desert locust upsurge infested 10 West and North African countries in the summer of 2004, threatening millions of hectares of crops.

From April to December 2004, large swarms of desert locusts destroyed millions of hectares of crops and grazing land in 10 West and North African countries.

It has also led to the confiscation of thousands of hectares of land and water wells in the West Bank, which is tantamount to the de facto seizure of approximately 60 per cent of the territory, including East Jerusalem.

Indiscriminate cutting of trees to obtain fuel, mostly in the cities thus provoking deforestation of thousands of hectares of land, leads to scarcity of fuel forcing women to travel long distances looking for this source of energy.