Cambodia is also going through a post-civil war, which leaves them in no place to counter the bad effects of global warming. ... Without enough arable land to share between everyone character displacement takes effect and forces people to move to new environments and land. ... Although floods are creating less arable land it creates more densely and higher quality arable land in less land area. These dense areas are extremely high in soil nutrition and are ideal forms of arable land. ... The temperature not only kills crops but dries the land of its water causing droughts. ...

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This led to very low amounts of food, and in years where harvests were bad, famine resulted. ... In this system, land was divided into two equal plots. ... So, instead of dividing their land into two equally sized plots, they divided the land into three equally sized plots. ... Now, each year serfs were able to use sixty-six percent of land to grow crops instead of fifty, and as a result were plowing significantly less fallow land. ... In the Winter, wheat, rye, and other cereal grains were planted in a third of the land, and in the Spring, oats, barley, and most importantly, legumes were plan...

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As time has passed, the land has become more and more vulnerable to erosion and desertification. ... When the land becomes over-grazed, erosion starts to happen. ... The land would become very dry and soil fertility fluctuated. ... Public awareness and action can ensure the beauty of the land for years to come. ... When things like food and water start disappearing bad things become noticeable....

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And the city is now rapidly consuming the land once owned by the farmers. ... Of those who small farmers still on the land, 80% have farm income below the poverty line. ... Subsidy payments tend to be based on land ownership, not land stewardship. ... Globalization is continually making a bad situation worse for the small farmer. ... The total number of farms with land in orchards and vineyards has ...

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Forests cover much of the planet's land area. ... Unregulated land uses and monopolistic national markets favour the politically influential at the expense of the majority. ... Though the flat spaces are very difficult to farm because the land is not very fertile and plowing these narrow strips can be very challenging, many have transformed this landscape into farmable land. ... The environmental consequences of deforestation and land degradation are severe. ... Deforestation and land degradation also contribute significantly to the loss of biodiversity. ...

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Malawi has few exploitable resources apart from land, which is at a serious risk of degradation as a result of population pressure and poor farming methods. ... The average land holding per farmer is about 1 acre. 95% of all Malawians depend upon some part of their income from agriculture. ... Goats are used mostly as a financial buffer when times are bad they are sold off cow ownership is usually restricted to the chiefs. ... To try and save money to buy some land, a car or a tractor or even fertilizer and improved seed is difficult to say the least. ... No one can mortgage their ...

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He felt that crops grown on land treated in this way resisted the pests that were rife in the region, and that this resistance was passed onto the livestock when they were fed on such crops. ... Roosevelt during WW II, and Progressive Party candidate for president in 1948, he possessed a deep passion for land and ecology. Serving as Secretary of Agriculture from 1933 to 1940, the Soil Conservation Service was established under him in 1935, with the primary aim, "to conserve fertility, prevent soil erosion and promote good land use- according to Wallace. ... In the 1930's, a 'back to ...

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Another thing big corporation don't have to deal with is working the land themselves all they have to do is hire employees to work for them. On the other hand small farms have to deal with plating the crops themselves and if you have a lot of land you might have to hire others to come help you during planting and harvesting. ... Most industrialized farms would probably use a lot more of chemicals then family farms to grow their crops; I would assume that this would be bad for the environment. ... So I think that they would not be as concerned as much as perhaps a small farmer would be ...

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Sometimes they had bad weather, like hail storms or strong winds, but not all the time. In addition, their land near the rocky mountains had short grass or barley any, and down south they had high grasslands. ...

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Before the company was established in Plachimada, there was a lot of rainfall and the land was thriving for farmers to grow plants that enriched their life. ... Thus, resulted in polluting the water that farmers depend on for years and affecting their crops could not grow normally, wells contained not much water and when it is used for cooking rice, the rice changed colour to brown and have bad taste. ... Therefore, this bad situation forced the community to collect water from far places in order to keep them healthy (Hesperian Foundation). On the other hand, industrial activity such as mining...

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Kenya, the land of great sceneric beauty and friendly people, lies in the eastern part of Africa. ... Only 15% of Kenya's total land area is sufficiently fertile to be farmed, and only 7% can be classified as first class land. ... When the policy of reserving land for white settlers was legally ended in 1959, much desirable farmland was transferred to Africans. Today Kenya recognizes three broad types of land tenure: government land, trust land, and private or freehold land. ... Coffee continues to be an important export, though relatively less land (about 3%) is used to cultivate i...

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Rauch uses a paragon known as the Good Luck Patch, a 200-acre patch of farmland, to present the ideal example of land that has no significant runoff or erosion, soil rich in organic matter, and high yields (1). ... He then discusses how no till farming, through the use of genetically modified crops, could prevent the use of herbicides which are expensive, complicated to apply, and have the tendency to kill the "good with the bad" (4). ... He discusses how transgenic cotton significantly reduced the use of pesticides as well as the potential it has to eliminate pesticide use completel...

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Popularization of seeds, had people claiming to create all different things like red cotton, a cross between a tomato and cotton and grains of sorghum as big as corn. (126) The second element, close planting, was a failure beyond failures. " The same close planting was done throughout China with wheat, cotton, sorghum, millet and every other important crop: the results were identical- the seedlings died." (127) Had Mao thought this through in the political sense he would have realized that using all this land for mass productions so quickly would be the best way to go about it because eventual...

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Most Americans live under the assumption that food production companies will produce a humane and safe product supplied to the local grocery store. If not the U.S. government will step in to protect the public and correct any harmful methods or additives used in the process. Unfortunately the U.S. Government is failing us, and the food companies only provide consumers with risky and unhealthy choices without correct labeling. The growth of our food is made for mass production, as cheaply as possible, using chemicals and genetically engineered crops, with only one main goal, money. ...

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In a world where science dominates, many people are wondering about the new advances in food production. Many of the foods we already eat have been genetically engineered through breeding and hybridization in order to change the genetic structure to make crops stronger and healthier. In turn, this p...

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