"Our first fear is that the Bureau of Land Management has such a poor history of land management, " said Scott Silver, director of the Oregon-based Wild Wilderness organization.
Groundwater is polluted due to poor land practices, atmospheric deposition of pollutants and direct discharge of sewage into water bodies.
Across the world climate change is set to exacerbate problems where poor land use and population pressure is already putting an immense strain on finely balanced ecologies.
"Our development has the potential to kickstart regeneration in one of the most deprived boroughs in London, where land values are poor and yet no regeneration monies are available to it, " added Levy.
For poor countries land deals offer a chance to reverse decades of underinvestment in agriculture.
He said just putting ash into pits at La Collette was a poor use of land.
Of course scarce land, red tape, poor education and infrastructure, and onerous labour laws partly offset this.
The UN blames the massive migrations from rural areas either on population growth that the countryside cannot sustain or on economic prescriptions said to emphasize commercial agriculture over small farming, thus driving the poor off the land.
Mr Mugabe promises that their land will be given to poor blacks, but in cases where the owners have already fled or been evicted, their farms have often been given to rich cronies of the ruling party.
With the institute he devised a plan to help Peru's poor get title to land and businesses more quickly and efficiently.
Such people, land-rich but cash-poor, may now submit their credits to the state treasury for a full cash refund whenever the state budget is in surplus.
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Of course perennially land-rich and cash-poor Chesapeake was seeking to talk up its book at the time it was negotiating joint ventures, but that vast discrepancy between the values that the company was touting to shareholders in its presentations compared with ultimate deal realizations should just reiterate how little credibility McClendon has with investors.
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His adopted land has become an inspiration to many poor countries, especially in Africa.
But Mr Mugabe continues, in his speeches, to promise to seize land without compensation, for the rural poor.
There will be rich kids who land legacy slots at fancy colleges, poor kids who fall behind while attending rotten elementary schools.
China's demand for fertiliser is expected to be particularly buoyant as a result of its huge population and the poor quality of its arable land.
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With the support of then-president Alan Garcia and his successor, Alberto Fujimori, the ILD created a plan for Peru's poor to get title to land and businesses more quickly and efficiently.
But critics say that despite the rich resources that bring billions of dollars annually, the wealth is not trickling down to the rural poor who live on the land where the gold is mined.
Fourth is education, which is not only failing to prepare the rural poor for work off the land, but is also no longer equipping enough talented young graduates with the skills that have fuelled the services boom.
The rebels, known as Naxalites, have been fighting the central government for more than four decades, demanding land and jobs for tenant farmers and the poor.
This settlement, where fruit gathering is the only form of production permitted, is part of a program of agrarian reform designated for poor families who depend on the land for survival.
It shows that failures in the markets for credit, insurance, land and human capital result in underinvestment by the poor, overinvestment by the rich and a less efficient economy.
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Due to the consequences of the environmental crisis in Aral Sea region such as poor soil conditions, intensive desertification and land degradation, the farmers and dehkhans often face a plenty of problems.
Four times the area of France, and source of a fifth of the world's nickel and two-fifths of its platinum, Russia's entire Krasnoyarsk krai, or region, has only about as many inhabitants as Boston and despite their land's vast natural wealth, they are as poor as church mice.
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Conservationists say there are long-term benefits to the poor if they conserve the forests, as the land retains water and nutrients.
The helicopter, which was on a flight from Redhill to Elstree, was waiting to land at Battersea heliport where it had been diverted due to poor weather.
Nearly half of America's corn crop was also rated very poor to poor, while 57% of its pastures and range land were similarly graded.
Other agreements to revise laws on land reform and water rights, to reduce their cost to the poor, are unlikely to be fulfilled within the promised 90 days.
Surrounded by Serbian territory and land mines, and only linked to Bosnia by a long and poor-quality road, Gorazde stands on its own, unfairly forgotten by its fellow countrymen.
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