There are pilot-projects with fast-growing trees that can be pollarded for firewood, and drip-feed irrigation for saplings.
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Plans to suck carbon from the air by growing trees conflict with the need to grow crops.
It can then be turned into plantations growing palm oil, rubber and fast-growing trees for the booming pulp-and-paper industry.
And although it is true, as loggers argue, that extracting old, slow-growing trees and preserving their carbon in expensive furniture may represent a net sequestration opportunity, high levels of wastage make the argument less convincing.
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Throughout the islands, you may be able to find the stinking toe served in juice or pick it from one of the wild-growing trees, though recent storms have destroyed some older trees, so the fruit is harder to find than it once was.
Many want almond, pistachio or walnut orchards - or any land suitable for growing nut trees.
By trade, John- William is a farmer, growing Christmas trees and organic cider apples.
It has moved from growing the trees to processing the fruit, and is now the largest bulk supplier of fresh juice to national brands such as Tropicana.
In some Thai villages up to 10% of the land is devoted to growing coconut trees, which are harvested every month and produce up to 70 nuts a year.
They are growing different crops, planting trees, harvesting rainwater and growing fodder for livestock to minimize the impacts of climate change.
X-ray and ultrasound machines, helped by earnings from Mr Zhou's sideline business growing flowers and trees.
First, they established that black-cherry seedlings growing near adult trees did, indeed, do badly.
Some are open to the sky, some have fountains and some have ancient trees growing out to the roof.
"The weeds are growing up like trees and they are going to start interfering with the houses if the roots come through and we don't want that, " she said.
You've had the heirloom tomatoes and artisanal, grass-fed steaks, the small-production wine so perfectly translated from the soil you can almost taste the olive trees growing beside the vine rows.
In Milan, we shared an update this week on Bosco Verticale, a new high-rise development that will feature the world's first vertical forest with large trees growing from the balconies.
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When Cristina Baker and her husband, Jorge Ruz, came upon Hacienda Xcanatun just outside Merida, for instance, there were trees growing out of the walls, and the government's preservation agency had deemed it unrecoverable.
The actual venue for the news conference was no less strange - a cross between a tent and a greenhouse, perhaps like an abandoned aviary - with greenery draped around the white trellis work, miniature orange trees in tubs and two large trees growing up between the TV cameras.
And though birch trees are plentiful, they may not be growing close enough to maple trees to make it worthwhile for established maple producers.
At the southern end of the growing range, the trees are thriving and hundreds of saplings are taking root.
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Mr. Frampton sees faster-growing, prettier Christmas trees as critical to the state's agricultural economy, which is reeling from the decline of tobacco and from rapid suburban growth.
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The oil multinational hopes its improved trees, now growing in test sites in Uruguay and Chile, will prove a boon to the pulp and paper industry.
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The primary school counts 430 students and 17 teachers, grapples with classic problems of rural schools in many parts of the world from overcrowding and lack of clean water to difficulty in growing much-needed shade trees and river overflows in the rainy season.
These too rely on building 3-D models of trees and the fruit growing on them.
On one scouting expedition, he spotted a grove of palms growing in the sandy soil, trees not native to Florida that had sprouted from a batch of coconuts from a boat that had foundered off Cuba.
But the conditions aren't right for growing on to bushes, let alone trees.
"I thought the idea that trees had souls was a little hokey growing up, " says Yarnall.
The pressure of a desperately poor and growing population has led to the indiscriminate felling of trees, for fuel as well as to increase cultivable acreage.
Pledges can be personalised but suggested bee-friendly behaviours include growing your own bee-friendly food including fruit trees, tomatoes and soft fruits, and shopping for bee-friendly foods such as locally-sourced honey or organically farmed crops.
An outsider to the services industry, he realizes only the healthiest trees in this forest are going to keep on growing.
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