The deforestation rate in the 1990s was estimated at 14.6 million hectares per year since 5.2 million hectares were gained through afforestation and natural expansion of forests, the rate of net deforestation was 9.4 million hectares per year (see table).3 Most of the losses occur in the tropics, while in the non tropical regions forests are expanding either naturally (for example on large areas of abandoned agricultural land) or as a result of afforestation programmes.

Gross and net change in forest area, 1990 2000 (million ha year)

Even though India has more arable land than China 160.5 million hectares compared to 137.1 million hectares Tibet is the source of most major Indian rivers.

Contaminated land totalling 1.3 million hectares is currently used for agricultural production.

The overall surface of agricultural land in Bosnia and Herzegovina is about 2.5 million hectares, i.e. about 50 per cent of the country's territory, or 0.7 hectares per capita.

In the Vidharbha region of Maharashtra, which has the highest number of suicides, the area under Bt cotton has increased from 0.2 million hectares in 2004 to 2.88 million hectares in 2007.

After the war, from 2003 to 2004 only 2.9 million ha of the available agricultural land was cultivated.

Similarly, the area planted with transgenic crops in developing countries has grown from 1.3 million hectares to 14 million hectares over the last 6 years.

Angola is a potentially rich agricultural country, with fertile soils, a favourable climate, and about 57.4 million ha of agricultural land, including more than 5.0 million ha of arable land.

The total surface of land under cultivation in Bosnia and Herzegovina is 2.5 million hectares, or 50 per cent of the country's territory there is 0.7 hectares per capita.

At a time when carbon emissions are rapidly rising worldwide, this gigantic carbon capture machine is, like agricultural land, one of the essential elements of global climate control.

Jordan uses habitat equivalency analysis ( HEA ) to determine that approximately 25 million hectares of additional reserves are needed for this purpose.

Iraq also argues that Jordan does not have the physical capacity to implement the approximately 25 million hectares of preserves proposed to offset its losses since Jordan's total land area is only approximately 9 million hectares.

In 2011 there were about 9.6 million hectares planted with olive trees, which is more than twice the amount of land devoted to apples, bananas or mangoes.

FAO and the Governments of the affected countries mounted a major control operation, treating more than 12 million hectares of infested land to protect crops.

The report shows that since 2000, investors or state bodies in rich or emerging countries have bought more than 83 million hectares (more than 200 million acres) of agricultural land in poorer developing countries.

It is approximately 12,00 hectares.

At 16 lower efficiency, current output would require another 65 million acres of farmland an area more than half the size of California.

Yields per hectare have been stagnating.

The airport will start operating in 2025.

According to some estimates, Russia could increase its arable area by 10 million hectares, and its crop yields by 250 , thereby boosting grain exports dramatically.

The Warsaw Zoo covers an area of .

Coca cultivation in the Andean region steadily decreased, from 221,000 hectares in 2000 to 153,800 hectares in 2003.

Forests had been planted over an area exceeding 100,000 hectares and nearly 500,000 hectares of natural forests were systematically protected.

Meanwhile, acreage used for poppy and marijuana production has risen, according to the US government, to 6,900 and 8,900 hectares, respectively.

According to the same report, theaverage number of global hectares per person was 2.1,while current consumption levels have reached 2.7 hectaresper person.

Since 2006, between 15 and 20 million hectares of farmland, the equivalent of the total arable surface of France, have been the subject of negotiations by foreign investors.

Food supply has not collapsed (1.5 billion hectares of arable land are being used, but another 2.7 billion hectares are in reserve).

Reducing food waste could save more than 250 billion worldwide the equivalent of 65 million hectares of agricultural land use by 2030.

The report shows that since 2000, investors or state bodies in rich or emerging countries have bought more than 83 million hectares (more than 200 million acres) of agricultural land in poorer developing countries. This amounts to 1.7 of the world s agricultural land.

Unfortunately, there are only 13.4 billion hectares available.

It is possible, however, to track the evolution of the proportion of forest cover, assuming the same rate of loss of forested areas (about 52,000 hectares a year) and a recovery rate of 10,000 hectares a year.

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.

African farmers produce roughly one ton of grain per hectare, compared with more than four tons per hectare in China, where farmers use fertilizers heavily.

Depending on the requirements of crop rotation and location, the area for the cultivation of oilseed rape for biodiesel could be expanded to 1 million hectares, covering approximately 5 per cent of German diesel demand in the medium term.

Kiribati was mentioned in the study, and Webb and Kench found that the three major urbanised islands in Kiribati Betio, Bairiki and Nanikai increased by 30 (36 hectares), 16.3 (5.8 hectares) and 12.5 (0.8 hectares), respectively.

It observes that the regeneration fellings (300 hectares) in the Angeli area constitute 0.8 per cent and the thinning logging operations (200 hectares) constitute 0.5 per cent of the forest, administered by the Muotkatunturi Herdsmen's Committee.

2003 Environmental Conservation Projects (Vietnam) maintaining, managing and expanding (from 0.5 hectares to 0.75 hectares) Permaculture farm constructing 95 composting toilets in the village of ethnic minority groups in the mountainous area.

The European Union congratulates President Karzai and the Government of Afghanistan on the significant achievement of a 21 per cent reduction in opium poppy cultivation, from 130,000 hectares in 2003 2004 to 104,000 hectares in 2004 2005.

In 1995 1996, the size of areas devoted to rapeseed growing for fuel reached 615,000 hectares, representing a large part of the 968,000 hectares devoted to non food crops.

Each hectare of rainforest, for example, stores 500 tons of CO2.

The fires in the European part of Russia have destroyed 190,000 hectares of forest.

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).

In 2005 alone 9,500 hectares are undergoing reafforestation, and the aim is to achieve by 2007 the reafforestation of a total of 44,100 hectares in areas without forest cover.

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.