The arable land in the village comprised gardens and olive trees.

Under land management, adaptation options included afforestation, reforestation of marginal lands and protection of arable land.

Israeli forces had destroyed 10 per cent of the arable land in Gaza.

Since only 2.9 of the country's land is arable, agriculture contributes to 0.5 of Bahrain's GDP.

Land use Only 2.2 percent of Yemen is considered to be arable land, and less than 0.6 percent of the land is planted with permanent crops.

Environmental protection and land management Farm or undeveloped land composes the majority of land in most countries.

Although arable land accounts for only 1 of Namibia, nearly half of the population is employed in agriculture.

The law on the dekhkan (individual) farm contains conditions for making land available, criteria for holding the post of head of the farm, the rules for allocating a land plot, the rights and responsibilities of members of the farm, etc.

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

Significant natural resources are iron ore, coal, potash, timber, lignite, uranium, copper, natural gas, salt, nickel, arable land and water.

Moreover, a fully artificial system would not require arable land or potable water, nor would it force a choice between food and fuel production in land use.

Of the total land area of 2,934 km² (725,000 acres), about 24.4 is in permanent crops and another 21.2 is arable.

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

Now one third of all arable land is used to grow crops to feed livestock, not to grow staple crops for people.

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.

Same idea series of semi independent city states, little blobs of metropolitan stuff with arable land around, joined to one another by railway.

This is not primarily a result of global warming, but a consequence of more people and less arable land in the developing world.

In terms of land use, 58 of Ukraine is considered arable land 2 is used for permanent crops, 13 for permanent pastures, 18 is forests and woodland, and 9 is other.

Agricultural activity in Anguilla is limited due to a combination of factors, including poor soil, the small amount of arable land and irregular rainfall.

Moreover, producers of foodstuffs (such as Argentina and Uruguay), which suffered for decades, are now gaining from notable biogenetic innovations that increased arable land area.

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.

Much of the population engages in subsistence farming, even though only 10.71 of the country's surface is classified as arable land and 0.13 has permanent crops.

This year s snowmelt caused landslides and flooding a warning of more soil erosion and destruction of arable land to come hundreds died and thousands lost their livelihoods.

But rapid urbanization is driving up industrial fossil fuel consumption and household water consumption, and is increasing demand for food in areas where arable land is scarce.

Israel is also continuing to build the illegal separation wall, confiscating arable land from the future State of Palestine, separating families and impeding the freedom of movement.

Disproportionately, they farm the land, carry the water, raise and educate the children, and care for the sick.

A group of 35 young Jews began to farm the land, which became the core of Kibbutz Ein Harod.

Though farm collectives have remained the owners of rural land, households may obtain all residuals of their production, which creates the necessary incentive to use land productively.

Those who live on this planet in future centuries will live in a hotter world, with higher sea levels, less arable land, and more extreme hurricanes, droughts, and floods.

During the 2004 planting season, it was estimated that less than 30 per cent of arable land was cultivated in 2005 this percentage is likely to decline even further.

The law establishes the right of every citizen to create a dekhkan farm on the basis of land that is available in the local executive body of State authority land reserve.

During the South African occupation of Namibia, white commercial farmers, most of whom came as settlers from South Africa and represented 0.2 of the national population, owned 74 of the arable land.

Georgia s climate and soil have made agriculture one of its most productive economic sectors the 18 percent of Georgian land that is arable provided 32 percent of the republic's NMP in 1990.

China s entire reform process started with the adoption of the so called rural household contract system, which leases productive land to farm households.

The increased scarcity of common resources, as well as the erosion of biogenetic diversity and degradation of land, water and other public goods,19 affect the productivity and economic viability of women's work, both in farm and non farm activities.

Their poverty causes low farm productivity, and low farm productivity reinforces their poverty.

Improving farm productivity.

Simply restricting the practice of land clearing probably would not work, since farm families and communities would face a strong temptation to evade legal limits.

But it has gained a new impetus in a world where climate change is already a reality, commodity prices are rising, and basic resources such as clean air, arable land, and fresh water are increasingly scarce.

Animal Farm , written in 1944, is a book that tells the animal fable of a farm in which the farm animals revolt against their human masters.

Nevertheless, most people living in Africa s cities have access to land in the countryside, which is why Liberia s government rightly highlights the potential for farm expansion.

As a result, farm sizes would drop (as land was divided among ever more children), labor productivity would fall, and the poor would become even poorer.

But on the other hand, if you start measuring, how much would it actually cost to restore the land of the shrimp farm back to productive use?

19 Owing to factors such as population growth, desertification and land degradation, arable land per member of the agricultural population of most developing countries has been declining for the past 30 years Ruth S. Meinzen Dick and others, Gender and property rights an overview , World Development, vol. 25, No. 8 (1997).

Sami lived on a farm.