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Probably to more concentration of ownership in middle-sized farms, marginal land being converted to forestry.
ECONOMIST: Chile
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If you don't allow marginal land to be built on, they're going to build on the good farming land.
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Higher yields, he pointed out, saved marginal land and forest from farming.
ECONOMIST: Norman Borlaug
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As a result huge amount of marginal land has been taken in as pasture, overgrazed to the point of exhaustion, and now farmers are being forced to watch the topsoil literally blow away on the spring winds.
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But according to this research, wheat will face a difficult future in the developing world, where higher prices for cotton, maize and soybeans have pushed wheat to marginal land, making it more vulnerable to stresses induced by climate change.
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Since then he has been a prophet with marginal honor in his own land, lecturing earnestly about the shame he feels at being part of the first generation that will not pay its own way.
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