The process of land concentration tends to be amplified by large-scale foreign land acquisitions, resulting in growing inequalities in farm size.
Indigenous peoples tend to be disproportionately affected by dispossessions resulting from large-scale land acquisitions.
He plans to put the storage bags through smaller scale land-based tests, with four-meter-diameter bags, to prove that his calculations are right.
Unfortunately, this advice might fall on deaf ears, as many of the large-scale land acquisitions take place in countries with very weak governance.
Reading a 2011 World Bank study3 on this phenomenon, one has the impression that the weaker the governance, the more attractive the country to large-scale land-based foreign land investments.
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.
Large-scale land concessions often generate a planning blight effect, which here refers to the uncertainty and deleterious effects on the social fabric and economic activities in targeted areas once a land allocation decision is made, or once negotiations between government and prospective investors have begun.
As the phenomenon of large-scale foreign land acquisitions is very recent, it is difficult to assess their full environmental and social impact at this early stage.
Any monies from sold off land will be reinvested to purchase further land according to Elin Jones AM as she confirmed that there would be no reduction in size and scale of the total land owned.
These players benefit from economies of scale and financing from land conversion.
The Highland Clearances of the 18th and 19th centuries saw families cleared from land to make way for large scale farming and sporting estates.
Even China is finally opening up to private agricultural investment, in part because new laws allow farmers to lease land, thus making possible economies of scale.
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Religious yearning was practically separated from political possibility, and it was not until the 19th century that a large-scale Jewish return to the land and to Jerusalem was realized.
The general public probably have no idea of the sheer scale and scope of property and land on the public sector's books.
The giants are able to use their scale to provide broader coverage and land access, sometimes exclusive, to the hottest devices, such as the iPhone and choice Android phones from device makers like HTC Corp.
Algae at least can be grown, with sufficient engineering, on a large scale that does not require prime crop land in competition with growing food crops (as rules out conventional biofuel strategies beyond grants from governments and the European Union), and there is no demand for freshwater since saline water does even better to promote the growth of certain highly oil-yielding strains.
Their hope was to make more capital from the land by running shooting estates, or starting industrial-scale livestock farming.
Restrictions on land use keep Greek ventures from quickly reaching an efficient scale.
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Colombia has done especially well: partly because it switched from ineffective crop-spraying to large-scale manual eradication, its coca-growing land has been reduced by 60% in the last decade.
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Renewable energy remains too expensive, too land-hungry, too unreliable and too small-scale to take up much slack, so cheap coal and newly abundant natural gas will do the job.
Obviously, Sybase is not enough to make SAP entirely relevant in scope and scale (and it goes without saying that in this land of giants, Sybase was not large enough to survive on its own.) But it picks up a solid asset, with businesses in financial modelling and mobile databases that are essential for SAP to stay in the game.
Whatever the cause, this "urbanization of poverty" has resulted in the large-scale erection of primitive forms of shelter, either on public land or on private land owned by absentee landlords.
This innovation made it affordable to fence vast areas of land, and led to the practice of animal husbandry on a much larger scale.
The sequence of woodland vistas, the revelations of scale and distance, light and dark, building and nature, land and water, as one approaches the entrance, were superbly orchestrated by Wright.
While housing must slow down, I continue to believe that favorable demographic trends, shortages of desirable land, historically low interest rates, relatively healthy economic data, economies of scale and market share opportunities argue for much higher housing-share prices.
As our Land Cruiser sped off down toward the nine-tent Olakira Camp, the sheer scale of the landscape unfolded, the spiny flat-tops of the acacia trees dotting undulating fields of grass and gentle hills rolling out to wide open vistas of scruffy brush.
So it was entirely fitting that Penn Station and Grand Central were conceived and constructed on the most lavish scale, as triumphal departure points for those travelling great distances across a land of teeming possibilities, and as monumental entrances for those many people who were visiting New York to get a glimpse of the future.
Boozy picnics on a mass scale occur in parks boasting cherry blossom trees, as hanami fever grips the land.
They would rather profit on a small scale, selling tapa cloth and betel nuts, without losing control of their land.
To better avail itself of many modern advantages, agriculture needs scale, and that means consolidation of plots through freedom to buy and sell land.
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