They rented some poor land and began to plant trees.

他们租了一些贫瘠的土地，开始种树。

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The agricultural land is hilly and the irrigation poor.

这片农田多丘陵，而且灌溉条件很差。

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He is a bearded, sandal-wearing liberation theologian, a campaigner for the poor and for land reform.

他是个蓄须的、穿凉鞋的自由神学家，是一位为穷人和土地改革而奔走的活动家。

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Professor King says loss of culture, land and language all play a part in poor health.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

And so in Exodus 23, you're going to have a law that tells you not to oppress a stranger because you were a stranger. It tells you to not plow your land in the Sabbath year immediately following that to let the poor and needy eat from it. It tells you to observe the Sabbath day rest.

在《出埃及记》第23章，你会看到有法令告诫你不要,欺压外人，因为你自己也是外人，也有法令告诫你,在安息日不要劳作，随后将收获的庄稼赠给穷苦之人,和有需要的人吃，告诫你守安息日。

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The Hansons were poor and they struggled to make their way in their new land.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

"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.

CNN: Nature - Babbitt pushes land protection initiative

Groundwater is polluted due to poor land practices, atmospheric deposition of pollutants and direct discharge of sewage into water bodies.

FORBES: Emerging Asia Hits a Wall of Water

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.

CNN: Desertification: How to stop the shifting sands