It will also push up the price of farmland, whether to grow crops for food or fuel.
Plans to suck carbon from the air by growing trees conflict with the need to grow crops.
And people now are less able to grow crops and run cattle than they were, say, a hundred years ago.
For centuries, the forest dwellers of Sumatra and Borneo have been slashing and burning to clear land to grow crops.
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Previous Zynga games enabled players to help a friend grow crops by clicking on them or collect rent on behalf of them.
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Urban communities could be given powers that would allow them to take over unused land and grow crops, flowers or plant trees.
But since energy crops first stirred agricultural excitement there's been controversy over the impact of using land to grow crops to burn.
More people mean more houses, which means less land to grow crops.
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From the beginning, Ronald says, they shared this goal: figuring out how to grow crops in a way that could feed the Earth without destroying the environment.
In Haiti, for example, her group employs 22 Haitians who make Medika Mamba and teaches other farmers how to grow crops for the mixture.
In early 19th- century Pennsylvania, this goo was considered a depressor of property values because oil made it hard to grow crops and made farm animals sick.
Dauphin travels there regularly and has helped the Foundation support children living in the Pampa Galleras to attend a boarding school and to help families grow crops in greenhouses.
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The main question I asked myself when I started was: Would it be possible to catch soil and water to create land and grow crops where this floodwater passes?
This is helping local people send their kids to school, access health care, and continue to grow crops on the same land without having to de-forest and to move to new land.
Today, this efficient method is used in more than 100 countries to grow crops using less water, energy and fewer chemicals, including projects in South Africa, China, India and even for growing tea in Tanzania.
Biofuels Watch, a British lobby group, worries that a craze for the stuff could see virgin land tilled specifically to grow crops such as switchgrass, whose only purpose was to be pyrolised and buried.
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He issued a military order freeing the slaves from Hilton Head and nearby islands, then set land aside to create a town, giving each a quarter-acre plot to grow crops and run their own affairs.
When Hveravellir Farm constructed its first greenhouses around 20 miles from Husavik in 1933, farmers were able to grow crops that required even warmer temperatures, like tomatoes and cucumbers, bringing locally grown produce to the region for the first time.
One thing both evolutionists and intelligent designists agree on is that as more and more golf courses are built, soon enough, there will be no arable land left to grow crops, so the human race will die out anyway.
Hike into Chinchero , an adobe village overlooking the Sacred Valley of the Incas and believed to be the mythical birthplace of the rainbow. (Love this.) Visit the village of Huilloc where weavers still speak the language of their Incan ancestors and still grow crops on tiny terraced plots 12, 000 feet above sea level.
Money has also been spent on persuading poppy farmers to grow alternative crops, like fruit trees or saffron.
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Neither is it easy to grow other crops in the Yungas, where alternative development has already been tried, unsuccessfully.
He wanted the great sugar estates broken up and land distributed to small farmers, who would grow other crops.
If they are to grow other crops, they have to be able to sell these to other countries at a reasonable price.
Now the British believes the key lies in rebuilding roads and water systems so farmers can grow alternative crops and get them to market.
To break free of this unhappy equilibrium, farmers must set aside a portion of their land to grow cash crops in the dry season, when they fetch a high price.
The only people who really seem to benefit are the farmers who grow the crops and seed companies who provide the seeds, while there are environmental risks that affect us all.
Some of the abuses have long been obvious: California's farmers suck up 85% of the state's water at subsidised rates and then grow thirsty crops such as cotton in the desert.
But if the traffickers make the biggest profits, even the growers do well out of opium, which is precisely why the efforts so far to wean them off opium cultivation and to persuade them to grow other crops have been of such limited success.
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