The British government rejects this but says that it is prepared to help financially with land resettlement, provided Zimbabwe pushes for productivity, establishes an accurate land register of title deeds and the scheme is seen to benefit the poor.
Limited agricultural productivity, continued land degradation and water scarcity have made food self-sufficiency goals unachievable at the national or regional level.
Science and technology delivered new methods, and productivity of people and land rose.
Horrific environmental degradation coexisting with the need to create continued employment growth has China on a tightrope of trying everything to restore water, air, and land to healthy levels while simultaneously growing productivity and addressing corruption.
Land reform will also help unlock massive potential productivity gains.
It provides Americans from every corner of our country access to the first rate products and services that define our economy, increasing the productivity of our people and our land.
Thanks to considerable improvements in crop productivity, U.S. planted land has decreased roughly 39 million acres since 1980 (an 11 percent decrease).
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Similarly, the drop in land used to grow coca has been offset by better productivity.
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Farmers are loth to invest in improving productivity when they have no title to the land they till.
Demand for food in these countries will also double, which, at their current low levels of agricultural productivity, will drive up demand for forest land.
This remains a very real concern, with much of the world suffering from increasing water scarcity, land erosion, drought intensity, stalled progress on crop productivity, declining groundwater aquifers, over-grazing of pasturelands, tropical deforestation, massive species extinction, over-fishing, and anthropogenic climate-change.
Thousands of farmers continue to leave the land every year, responding to technological changes that have doubled agricultural productivity over the past half century.
The prescription for Greece and others is a familiar one: relaxing the rules that govern jobs, wages and land development will allow the best enterprises to grow bigger and the duds to fail, boosting productivity, GDP growth and tax revenues.
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