Though landlocked, Ethiopia is comparatively well endowed with natural resources, not least its fertile farmland, which has attracted significant investment from Saudi Arabia, among others.

The increasing pace of subsistence farming and reconstruction activities caused by the ongoing mass returns of refugees and internally displaced persons has the potential for large scale and rapid degradation of forests, wildlife habitats and fertile farmland.

Miyagi has been able to rehabilitate 93 per cent of affected farmland, while just 66 per cent of farmland in Iwate and less than 50 per cent of farmland affected by the disaster in Fukushima has returned to use.

Of course, farmland is much less important than other speculative assets.

Farmland is a town in Monroe Township, Randolph County, Indiana, United States.

Gaza s poverty was fertile ground for Islamic radicalism.

The price of farmland hasn t grown so fast as to make investors rich.

But my favorite dark horse bubble candidate for the next decade or so is farmland and not just because there have been stories in recent months of booming farmland prices in the US and the United Kingdom.

Natural resources are plentiful, with vast amounts of fertile land.

This de facto surrender creates a fertile environment for despotism.

Fertile is a city in Polk County, Minnesota, United States.

Tractors and cars eradicated this huge demand on farmland (while ridding cities of manure pollution).

This farmland is a part of the Parapannonian Plain stretching into neighboring Croatia and Serbia.

Most of Ukraine consists of fertile plains (or steppes) and plateaus.

The latter provides fertile ground for corruption, extremism and organized crime.

Prices per acre of farmland in Iowa and Illinois rose more than 10 over the past year.

Novelties get the most attention, like the possibility that outside investors might control large areas of farmland.

The anti Japanese hysteria of the 1980 s fell on fertile ground.

The area had always been a fairly fertile area, thus encouraging farming.

Fertile plain area covers 16 per cent of the total, less fertile soil on hill and mountain areas covers 62 per cent, and the Mediterranean area makes up 22 per cent of overall

But, farmland, at least in certain places, seems to have the most contagious new era story right now.

The city's ideal combination of fertile ground and shallow waters attracted numerous traders.

Of 5,400 hectares of farmland in Fukushima affected by the disaster, 690 hectares lie within the nuclear exclusion zone.

Ownership rights to agricultural land remain in the public domain, but the right to exploit farmland has been privatized.

As many of Lebanon s poorest are Shia, this provides fertile ground for Hezbollah recruiters.

Hence the densely populated area is considered fertile soil for crime and social unrest.

Afghanistan's 'green zone', a stretch of fertile, cultivated ground along the Helmand River Valley.

Male infertility refers to a male's inability to cause pregnancy in a fertile female.

Women make over 51 of the population, 25 of them being in fertile age.

Moreover, its current contribution is also negligible, practically all of it coming from deforestation and degradation of forests and farmland.

It also left vast areas of farmland untended, making them available for pasture and putting more meat on the market.

m. Soils are very diverse, the best fertile soils covering 1 3 of the territory.

More generally, construction materials and construction services seem to be fertile ground for cartel operators.

But make no mistake the ground for populist economics is becoming more fertile by the day.

China might, indeed, have an interest in some border areas with fertile soil and moderate climate.

Tourism thrives on a pristine environment, and it therefore provides fertile ground for testing innovative policies.

The country spends roughly 60 million annually fighting invasive alien plants that threaten native wildlife, water supplies, important tourism destinations, and farmland.

For the resources of nature and men s devices are just as fertile and productive as they were.

Cities became more common outside the Fertile Crescent with the Early Iron Age from about 1100 BC.

That has led to conflicts everywhere in the world. Injustice is a fertile ground for breeding violence.

Without access to fertile land, uncontaminated water and a healthy biological ecosystem, farmers' livelihood is in danger.

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

They enable farmers to produce higher yields with fewer inputs (such as pesticides), so that more food can be produced from existing farmland.

Indeed, food prices are currently increasing in Europe, because more and more farmland is being used for bio fuels instead of for food production.

This legislation establishes a system of prior authorization for the exercise of the import, export, production, possession, transfer, use or transport of fusible, fissile or fertile nuclear material or any material, with the exception of ore, containing one or more fusible, fissile or fertile elements.