Due to massive population pressure in the 1950s, city officials began developing land farther outside Cairo.
After emerging from reorganization it shifted its strategy and stopped developing land.
Rich countries have, repeatedly, chosen to focus on green business experiments, like biofuel production or anti-deforestation campaigns, that rely on large acquisitions of land in the developing world.
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It entails, among other things, ensuring the just and equitable dispersal of the seabeds' wealth to the world's developing and land-locked nations.
The LEP hopes to create 14, 000 jobs by developing the land around the aerodrome and nearby Whitley as part of their Gateway project.
Mr Biggs said he was assured six weeks ago that a deal was imminent but there was still haggling over costs of developing the land and existing debts.
The travellers started developing the land on 30 April but stopped when residents - who have since started a group called Residents Against Inappropriate Development (RAID) - began a 24-hour picket.
Unlike its highly leveraged competitors that gorged on loans to build up land banks, Godrej Properties has an asset-light business: It owns only 15% of the land that it is currently developing.
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But being evicted would be devastating to him, he said, not because he's trying to make money in Second Life, but because he and other people involved with his space-themed group have put so much time into developing their digital land.
And because of the expense of that land, and the costs of developing on it, new entrants do not enter the market.
Joe is a former paper company that's developing much of its land.
This leapfrogging has already happened with telephone systems: Developing countries that lacked land-line telephone and broadband connectivity, such as India, made the leap directly to mobile systems rather than build out their land-line infrastructures.
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In 2005 Schweickart successfully campaigned for NASA to take the issue of NEOs seriously, the result has been a number of NASA centers developing prospective plans to land a spacecraft and even astronauts on an asteroid.
In the case of large-scale land deals, one of the primary justifications given by governments in developing countries is that they need investments in order to develop the land and make it more productive.
Like most of the developing world, Faustino's land is rapidly changing.
Joe is the second-largest land owner in Florida, owning approximately 567, 000 acres of land primarily in Northwest Florida it is either developing or using to grow and sell timber.
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And while the FAO admits that some developing countries will be able to expand their arable land by as much as 12 percent, the downside is that a "considerable part" of this extra farmland will be a direct result of deforestation.
"We had a bit of a problem with the weather before Christmas, but now the work's developing really well, " said Alan Carter of The Land Trust.
Exploiting a state redevelopment act that allows municipalities to extract extra tax money by developing depressed areas, Industry declared 80% of the city land blighted by 1974, allowing the city to sell that land to any developer of its choosing without putting out a request for public bids.
In the developing world, where the XO and the Classmate were originally intended to land, the choice isn't as simple.
They complain of a heavy-handed Egyptian state intruding on their terrain, providing large tracts of land to Cairo-based businessmen and investors, and failing to involve them in developing the region's prosperity.
Many of the best acreage positions have been established by upstart independent companies that were quick to acquire land, but that now are constrained by their relatively small balance sheets from efficiently developing it.
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Moreover, developing countries lack the necessary capabilities, including in terms of knowledge and skills, to handle land-based deep-sea research, with the notable exception of molecular biology techniques, which have become increasingly available worldwide.
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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