Opponents have said the plan would destroy valuable farming land and increase pollution and traffic.
Bank balances apart, Colombia's mobsters have huge holdings of urban property, and of good farming land.
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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.
But the river system that covers two-thirds of Australia's irrigated farming land is also suffering from decades of overuse.
"There are well-publicised grain shortages in France and America and this is some of the best farming land not only in the county, but the country, " he said.
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Authorities say the land in question is owned by the government, but activists argue villagers have been farming the land for many years and have nowhere else to go if it is developed by a private company.
Greenhouse gases are not the only climatically active ingredients that industry, farming and land clearance add to the atmosphere.
All those kids in inner cities and small farm towns, the rolling hills of Virginia, the valleys of Ohio, right here in Dubuque -- kids dreaming of becoming scientists or doctors, or engineers or entrepreneurs, following the family tradition of farming the land, maybe becoming a diplomat, maybe becoming a President -- (applause) -- starting a business -- they need champions in Washington, because they don't have lobbyists.
And if more competitive farming pushed up land prices, it would boost the collateral held by overextended banks.
Intensive farming of less land, leaving more land for wildlife, protects biodiversity better.
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You also made much of the thoroughly discredited claim that organic farming requires more land to be brought into cultivation.
Likewise, the hunger for meat proteins is driving land farming to levels that can impinge on the health of man and beast.
Mr Back predicts that, in future, the farming communities will diversify into farming their own land, and selling their specialist skills to several estates.
Weiss believes this climate change initiated a mass migration away from dry-land farming to the creation of irrigated fields along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, allowing the people to build some of the earliest institutions of civilization.
Surveyors believe uncertainty over the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy and the future of farming has also reduced supply and demand for land among the farming community.
This is firstly something of a death knell for organic farming: we know that that is more land hungry than conventional farming.
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With chinampas, the area's Aztec people were basically able to construct new space for farming on previously unhospitable land.
Plans are also under way to return part of the land to farming and to build homes.
West sold the cattle and rented the land for farming.
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But while the presence of humans has been a major factor in increasing deforestation and the clearing of land for farming, the absence of humans can also be a threat to trees.
For example, in the island nation of Papua New Guinea, an increase in population growth coupled with rising sea levels is decreasing the amount of crop land making farming very difficult for the indigenous people of the region, according to the U.N.
He was born into farming, and on that land he's raised wheat, barley and a family.
Sekem, an Egyptian food producer, set itself the task of reclaiming desert land through organic farming.
That being said, differences in land use and farming practices since the Dust Bowl make the comparison of real-world impacts more complicated.
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Essentially, do we farm extensively, using fewer inputs and more land, thus allowing some wildlife to co-exist on the same land as our farming?
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He took timid steps to turn over more land to private farming, and gave more leeway to some small businesses, such as private taxi drivers.
Without some consolidation of land, Chinese farming cannot be efficient.
Reeling off the costs of farming, from paying for land, to fertilizer, seed and labor, Juliuson says that an extra nickel in the price of beans could help him retire someday.
The presence of nitrate in the water is predominantly a consequence of land management decisions and farming practice.
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