Peatland can store over 5, 000 tonnes of carbon per hectare, and when drained for cultivation emits it for decades.
Only the remaining twenty percent can be used for cultivation.
We help these families have permanent land for cultivation, we help them access modern technology with low-water-intake drip irrigation, we create village reservoirs for year-round water, and then we teach them to produce fruits and vegetables with a harvest every two weeks so they can sell year round.
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As well as destroying such native ecosystems, deforestation also diminishes so-called "carbon sinks" -- thereby reducing the Earth's capacity to absorb and re-process atmospheric carbon dioxide -- while also adding to air pollution through the burning of land to clear it for cultivation (sugarcane fields are traditionally fired prior to harvest to remove leaves and drive away snakes).
As for return of farmland to cultivation, the level stands at only 15% in Iwate (though 98% for rice cultivation), 47% in Miyagi (98%), and 8% in Fukushima (83%).
It will help investors to pinpoint likely mineral deposits, and officials to map flood plains suitable for rice cultivation.
Nangarhar, which Mr Qadir governed in the mid-1990s, is one of Afghanistan's most important areas for the cultivation of opium-producing poppies.
More people means more forest cleared for shifting cultivation, and bigger herds of goats and cattle browsing the vegetation and compacting the soil.
And we have evidence of cases where fruit trees and other essentials, vegetables and so on, are being neglected or cleared in order to give space for maize cultivation.
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Following up on my post about the Science of Tequila, I contacted Mexican botanist and author Ana Valenzuela Zapata on the broader applications for blue agave cultivation.
Charles Yarish, a professor at the university who has studied seaweed cultivation for more than two decades, grows sugar-kelp seeds there for a project he runs with Purchase College in New York.
Ever-increasing swathes of virgin forest are being felled to provide cultivation space for biofuel crops.
Another reason for the drop in cultivation may also be due to the fact that the US market - the world's biggest - is experiencing a rise in popularity of synthetic drugs over cocaine and heroin supplied by Colombia.
After obtaining from Genentech, Inc. the recombinant E. coli bacteria that contained the genetic blueprint for and that synthesized human insulin, they developed processes for the large-scale cultivation of the organism (in huge fermenters similar to those that make wine or beer) and for the purification and formulation of the insulin.
All sources of energy and electricity require water in their production processes: the extraction of raw materials, cooling in thermal processes, in cleaning processes, cultivation of crops for biofuels, and powering turbines to generate hydroelectricity.
The UN says the correlation between insecurity and opium cultivation has been apparent for several years.
Monsanto contended that commodity grain is restricted for use as feed, not cultivation, and its use, even as a second year commodity purchase violates the one-time use license agreement.
Likewise, conservative lawmakers may favor opening up land to cultivation, while others prefer saving land for hunting constituents.
As in most central African countries, Congo's deforestation is currently minor, caused largely by small-scale shifting cultivation and over-harvesting of wood for fuel.
As pastoralists, the Irob had been relatively individualistic, except for some agreements on the use of common pasture, but their growing emphasis on building and repairing dams to allow cultivation led to an increase in mutual assistance.
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