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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

And we found that counties with less bank competition experienced a milder farmland boom, and therefore a smaller bust in the years before the Great Depression.

Because of ethnic politics, valuable farmland in Kurdish territory has not contributed to the national economy, and inconsistent agricultural policies under Saddam Hussein discouraged domestic market production.

While there is a land shortage on the urbanised main island of Tongatapu (where 70 of the population resides), there is farmland available in the outlying islands.

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.

Moreover, people nowadays easily imagine that the housing and farmland markets always move together, because prices in both boomed in recent memory, in the early 2000 s. But, from 1911 to 2010 in the US, the correlation between annual real growth of prices for homes and farmland was only 5 , and the latest data on farm prices have not shown anything like the decline in home prices.

And large scale farmland bubbles are quite rare there was only one in the US in the entire twentieth century, during the great population scare of the 1970 s.

But the low yields of organic agriculture in real world settings typically 20 50 below yields from conventional agriculture impose various stresses on farmland and increase water consumption substantially.

For example, U.S. farmland had a total value of 1.9 trillion in 2010, compared with 16.5 trillion for the US stock market and 16.6 trillion for the US housing market.

If the government were truly becoming more responsive, why have we not seen similar responses to other disputes over the theft of farmland, compromised investors rights, or high level corruption?

The rise in food prices is leading to a land grab, as powerful politicians sell foreign investors massive tracts of farmland, brushing aside the traditional land rights of poor smallholders.

And there is one environmental benefit that is often overlooked in 1910, more than 30 of farmland in the United States was used to produce fodder for horses and mules.

Africa s farmers produce roughly one third or less food per hectare of farmland than their counterparts around the world, resulting in massive hunger, which is exacerbated by a heavy disease burden.

The floods killed more than 600 people, displaced 1.7 million and affected as many as 34 million people, destroying nearly 1 million houses and more than 1.4 million acres of farmland.

There are often regulatory barriers to converting farmland into urban land, but these barriers tend to be thwarted in the long run if economic incentives to work around them become sufficiently powerful.

Round the house, in the rift valley, is farmland, but within a short distance to the north west, on the other side of the fault, are the Grampian Mountains in the Highlands.

The decades long neglect of extensive areas of marginal farmland was a boon for the establishment of unique ecological conditions favorable for the survival of animal species rarely found in other parts of Europe.

The scope of the phenomenon is enormous. 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.

Crop yields are below one ton of cereal per hectare of farmland far less than half of what is readily achievable if farmers are helped to gain access to fertilizers, improved seeds, and basic infrastructure.

For example, food prices are increasing alongside soaring oil prices, partly because of increased production costs, but also because farmland in the United States and elsewhere is being converted from food production to bio fuel production.

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.

Now, they found themselves on the border of two counties Los Angeles County with a population of 10 million and almost no farmland, and San Bernardino County which has the worst access to healthy food in the state.

The additional revenue might initially come from selling small electricity surpluses to local farmers to recharge their mobile phones (thereby allowing them to work out the optimal prices for their crops), or to help them irrigate farmland using small electric pumps.

But converting forest to farmland (which is brighter than forest) and adding smog particles to the atmosphere (which reflect sunlight) have increased the reflection of solar radiation, thus tending to offset some of the global warming that would otherwise have occurred.

It painted a picture of the destruction of agricultural property but failed to mention that, over the previous three years, over 450 Qassam rockets had been fired at Israeli population centres from Palestinian farmland and residential areas, killing many innocent civilians.

A wind farm can be integrated on farmland over thousands of acres but farmers who lease the land lose only about 1 2 per cent of their crop production and have the potential to earn from 20,000 to 30,000 in annual rent or royalties.

Or if we imagine the New York City metropolitan area, currently home to 12 million people, but 12 million people in the future, perhaps living at the density of Manhattan, in only 36 percent of the area, with the areas in between covered by farmland, covered by wetlands, covered by the marshes we need.