Water and arable land are in short supply.

The total arable land is 13.31 of the land surface, with 4.71 supporting permanent crops.

Although crop land per capita will continue to decline, more arable land is available worldwide than previously thought.

Economic concessions authorized by the prime minister go beyond arable land to pristine forests of Cambodia.

The amount of arable land on the planet has not changed substantially in more than half a century.

The world is likely to lose one third of its arable land by the end of the century.

As it stands, only 4 of arable land in Sub Saharan Africa is irrigated, compared to 38 in Asia.

That's the Sahara eating up almost two meters a day of the arable land, physically pushing people away from their homes.

However, it continued to stay afloat thanks to the proper functioning of the surrounding arable land, available labor and transportation infrastructure.

1840 to today After the Haarlemmermeer was drained in 1855 and turned into arable land, it was made part of North Holland.

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

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

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.

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.

Long term estimates project that over a 50 year time horizon, most of the planet s arable land would have to be used to feed the world and for forest conservation.

The US used some 2.2 pounds per hactare of arable land compared with 10.3 in China, 3.0 in the UK, .2 in Cameroun, 13.1 in Japan and 5.6 in Italy.

Agricultural businesses use 94 of arable land which produces food for exportation, while family farmers only use 6 for family farming, according to Oxfam's report Yvy Jára Los dueños de la Tierra en Paraguay ( Yvy Jára The owners of the Land in Paraguay ).

This land is your land.

It also ate up more arable land, which led directly to the destruction of rain forests and generally created a situation that will result in more CO2 emissions over the next hundred years.

Take away land speculation, price of land drops.

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.

Land of liberty, land of the future, I salute you!

China s India Land Grab

Strangers in the Land?

Land, nation and tongue

Who owns this land?

The sailors saw land.

Land came in sight.

They cultivated the land.

He owns this land.

Airplanes land at airports.

Whose land is this?

Tom owns this land.

This land is Tom's.

This is our land.

I own this land.

This land isn't ours.

This land is Tom's.

We didn't land yet.

Others' plots of land grow taros and sweet potatoes, and his land grows trash.

We draw from stocks of non renewable natural resources (for example, oil and metal ores), and we deteriorate or modify the quality of other resources (for example, water and arable land) by imposing on them a rhythm of exploitation superior to their capacity for regeneration.

Land mines defile the countryside.

Access to land was uneven.

Iran a Land of Paradoxes