Only seven percent of arable land in Africa is irrigated, compared to 40 percent in Asia.

As it stands, only 4 of arable land in Sub Saharan Africa is irrigated, compared to 38 in Asia.

) Irrigated land 1,300 km² (1993 est.

Only 4 of arable and permanent cropland is irrigated, compared to 39 in South Asia and 29 in East Asia.

The available agricultural land consists of of arable land and of pasture and hay land.

The total arable land is 13.31 of the land surface, with 4.71 supporting permanent crops.

Central Tanzania is a large plateau, with plains and arable land.

We'd go from three percent of the arable land, to four percent.

Although crop land per capita will continue to decline, more arable land is available worldwide than previously thought.

However, in 2012, more than 90 of Mozambique's arable land was still uncultivated.

Nineteen million hectares of rainforest are lost every year to create new arable land.

Turn it into a square that stands for all the arable land on Earth.

The last part of Claudius' plan was to increase the amount of arable land in Italy.

Agriculture Half of the country's irrigated land is planted with cotton, making the country the world's ninth largest cotton producer.

The world is likely to lose one third of its arable land by the end of the century.

Due to this lack of arable land, a system of terraces is used to farm in small areas.

Hungary lost 84 of its timber resources, 43 of its arable land, and 83 of its iron ore.

The government declared collectivization complete in 1962, when collective and state farms controlled 77 of the arable land.

The advantages of algae are that it can be grown on non arable land such as deserts or in marine environments, and the potential oil yields are much higher than from plants.

the portion of agricultural land devoted to arable crops intended for human consumption, in the agricultural surface area used.

Its natural habitats are temperate forests, Mediterranean type shrubby vegetation, sandy shores, arable land, pastureland, plantations, and rural gardens.

Control of arable land The rise of irrigation and urbanization, especially in ancient Sumer and later Egypt, unified the ideas of wealth and control of land and agriculture.

That's the Sahara eating up almost two meters a day of the arable land, physically pushing people away from their homes.

Nations with smaller economies (hence less energy consumption) and more arable land may be in better situations, although many regions cannot afford to divert land away from food production.

Now one third of all arable land is used to grow crops to feed livestock, not to grow staple crops for people.

If using only traditional food plants, most such nations do not have sufficient arable land to produce biofuel for the nation's vehicles.

Same idea series of semi independent city states, little blobs of metropolitan stuff with arable land around, joined to one another by railway.

One estimate, made in 2005, is that only 9 of land is used for agriculture (7 with permanent crops, plus 2 considered arable).

Still, they're talking about projects of 100,000 hectares of sugar cane irrigated in Pernambuco, 800,000 hectares of sugarcane irrigated in Bahia, transposition to other states and so on.

But rapid urbanization is driving up industrial fossil fuel consumption and household water consumption, and is increasing demand for food in areas where arable land is scarce.

Significant natural resources in Ukraine include iron ore, coal, manganese, natural gas, oil, salt, sulphur, graphite, titanium, magnesium, kaolin, nickel, mercury, timber and an abundance of arable land.

Its land titling was fragmented, the laws governing land acquisition were archaic, and the process of rezoning land for industrial use was non transparent.

Land Subsoil assets Non cultivated biological resources and water resources 22 .

Since 1950, world population has increased at a far greater rate than the total amount of arable land, even as agriculture contributes a much smaller percentage of the total economy.

Settlers have lived and cultivated the land for decades, since the first generation invaded the then non regularized Indigenous land.

Agricultural businesses use 94 of arable land which produces food for exportation, while family farmers only use 6 for family farming, according to Oxfam's report Yvy Jára Los dueños de la Tierra en Paraguay ( Yvy Jára The owners of the Land in Paraguay ).

The country contains very little arable land, as much of its area is covered by grassy steppe, with mountains to the north and west and the Gobi Desert to the south.

According to geographer and Cuban Comandante Antonio Núñez Jiménez, 75 of Cuba s best arable land was owned by foreign individuals or foreign (mostly American) companies at the time of the revolution.

South Korea's terrain is mostly mountainous, most of which is not arable.

Because Gifu has vast, arable plains, agriculture is also a major industry.

The elders have waited a long time to remove the non indians from the land.

He resolved to devote himself to the conversion of non Christians in the Holy Land.

Irrigated agriculture was developed under Islamic rule, reaffirming Jericho's reputation as a fertile City of the Palms .

In the Tihamah region, there is only irrigated agriculture, with cotton, sorghum and sesame the chief crops.

There has been growing interest by foreign investors to buy or lease large areas of arable land in sub Saharan Africa, either to grow food for their own countries or to export it for profit.