They do not have real land titles, only the right to demand some land and capital upon leaving the enterprise.
Nevertheless, there is a risk that the scheme, by making it easier to get secure title for dubious land claims, might somehow stimulate demand for virgin forest land, not damp it.
For this quarter, the firm expects profit margins from the region to be between 8.5% and 9.5%, down from around 11.7% in Q3 due to its heavy exposure to the oversupplied pressure pumping market and a decrease in land based drilling demand.
Rising prices have motivated new development projects that, in turn, have fueled demand for land.
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The two-decade-long Internet boom has created a huge demand for land in Silicon Valley, pushing up real estate prices.
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The company could be a beneficiary of the consolidating global resources and demand for land by some of the largest metal and mining companies, he argues.
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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.
The demand for space in cities is largely a product of regulations that demand valuable land be wasted on parking, limit mixed-use zoning and restrict the height of buildings.
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The experts provide inputs on both the supply side of the GDI focusing on biodiversity-relevant certification requirements for land management and the demand side of the GDI focusing on financing opportunities from business and the market.
The state controls the larger property developers and can alter supply and demand by releasing land when and how it wants.
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.
We are pressing ahead with our flat-producing programme for public housing and are planning a land bank that will cater for demand from private developers.
Nor are the calls for land reform, a longstanding and legitimate demand in Zimbabwe.
The currency from the Land of the Rising Sun remains in demand despite the new BoJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda disclosing his policy plans for government-bond purchases and other easing measures.
His buy rating on Standard Pacific Corp. rewarded stock owners with a 131.1% return in 2012.. While others were trying to survive the downturn, Standard Pacific spent heavily on land and now has plenty to meet robust demand.
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Persimmon Homes regional land director Andrew Crompton said it would meet the demand for more family housing in the city.
The co-operative is part of a growing urban agricultural movement in London, where demand for allotments -- plots of land that individuals can rent to grow fruit and vegetables -- far outstrips supply.
Demand for corn is such that more land is also being ploughed up in drier regions of the Great Plains states to the west of the corn belt, where irrigation in required, increasing water demand further.
Mr. Stelmach bet on builders with land, correctly betting they would have an advantage when demand picked up.
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Arable land is being used to produce biofuels, the increased demand for meat, particularly in India and China, is raising demand for animal feed.
How about the city government designates a set of aesthetically valuable historic buildings and then lets the rest of the land be filled with tall modern structures to meet the demand for space?
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In areas where there is a high current demand for rented housing, the report says land could be made available to developers on the grounds that a proportion of the homes built be let out to tenants.
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Robust demand for U.K.-based Jaguar Land Rover's vehicles worldwide has been offsetting its parent's weak sales in India.
This leaves more land for the generation of food and other products while satisfying growing demand for renewable energy.
Anyone who's hopped on a flight at a major airport, or even some land-based transit, knows the agonizing wait that certain agencies demand while they scan for explosives and check boarding passes.
Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover is also reportedly building a factory there, to meet auto demand and probably to avoid higher taxes on imported cars recently enacted by the country.
Chris Zaharias, chief revenue officer of Triggit, a San Francisco company that helps companies and agencies advertise on exchanges, said the demand to buy ads via Facebook Exchange has been a "land rush" for his business.
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Over the weekend, U.S. officials informed allies negotiating a Canada-sponsored treaty to ban land mines that it was willing to sign it and drop a previous demand that a Korean Peninsula exemption be written into the document.
That explanation doesn't work, since slowly rising demand can be (and has been) met by putting more land and fertilizer to use.
Biofuels -- Rising demand for food, which competes with biofuels for arable and pasture land, and a popular backlash against the subsidies they attract, will constrain the long-term potential for biofuels production using current technology.
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