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

Thousands of hectares of land are now arable through technical irrigation systems.

Israeli forces had destroyed 10 per cent of the arable land in Gaza.

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.

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

Under land management, adaptation options included afforestation, reforestation of marginal lands and protection of arable land.

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

The Israeli forces had also destroyed thousands of hectares of arable land and hundreds of wells and agricultural warehouses.

An estimated 205 million square metres of the arable land of the region cannot be cultivated because of landmines.

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

The overall land area of the Syrian Arab Republic is 18,517,971 hectares, of which approximately 6 million hectares are arable land.

Hundreds of thousands of dunums of arable land were ravaged and some 150,000 olive and orange trees were destroyed by fire.

The percentages confirmed that women participate in all of the activities involved in tending arable crops, fruit trees, vegetables and farm animals.

There is a severe lack of housing and arable land in the country and of the financial means to meet these needs.

The land environment is subjected to massive deforestation because of demographic pressure on the arable lands and the need for energy resources.

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

Agricultural activity in Anguilla is limited due to a combination of factors, including poor soil, the small amount of arable land and irregular rainfall.

122. Structural improvement of irrigation systems through the use of new equipment and material along with modern water control technology were necessary to increase arable land.

Israel is also continuing to build the illegal separation wall, confiscating arable land from the future State of Palestine, separating families and impeding the freedom of movement.

77. The Pentagon occupied 13 per cent of Puerto Rico apos s richest arable land with army and naval bases, training camps and test sites for new weapons.

During the 2004 planting season, it was estimated that less than 30 per cent of arable land was cultivated in 2005 this percentage is likely to decline even further.

Colombia's population is the victim of organized transnational crime, as arable land is illegally seized for the purposes of drug trafficking by illegal armed groups linked to that scourge.

(a) The creation of an appropriate legal framework for expansion of land ownership and agrarian reform of arable land with a view to improved exploitation of the total agricultural potential

The reckless deforestation of some areas of the third world, which has not been accompanied by any reafforestation, has worsened the situation and has caused the desertification of arable land.

88. The action undertaken by the Rwandan authorities is in fact quite complex. It aims not only at housing all returnees without exception, but also at providing them with arable land.

40. In China, where 7 per cent of the world s arable land was used to support 22 per cent of the world s population, agriculture was the economic and social development base.

The scope of the phenomenon is enormous. Since 2006, between 15 and 20 million hectares of farmland, the equivalent of the total arable surface of France, have been the subject of negotiations by foreign investors.

If you move the dots down to the bottom of the rectangle you can see that the cities for the existing three billion urban residents take up only three percent of the arable land on earth.

Although crop land per capita will continue to decline, more arable land is available worldwide than previously thought. The example of the use of the Brazilian cerrado, once considered useless, augurs well for the African savannas.

Food supply has not collapsed (1.5 billion hectares of arable land are being used, but another 2.7 billion hectares are in reserve). Malnourishment has dropped by more than half, from 35 of the world s population to under 16 .

The new practices resorted to by the Israeli occupation authorities include the uprooting of 2,200 apple trees on 29 January 1998 and the removal of arable soil from the remaining five villages inhabited by Syrian citizens to Israeli settlements.

Although initially APLs were designed for defence against potential aggressors, they have today become the source of terrorizing intimidation for millions of people, causing economic collapse in many agricultural countries by preventing farmers from cultivating large areas of arable land.

Is not the owner (nor the spouse of an owner) of an agricultural estate, with arable land exceeding an area of two hectares or a farm belonging to a special branch of agricultural production in the meaning of tax legislation

Loss of the ancient cedar, pine, fir, and oak forests on the slopes above is another matter. This year s snowmelt caused landslides and flooding a warning of more soil erosion and destruction of arable land to come hundreds died and thousands lost their livelihoods.

Only 4 of arable and permanent cropland is irrigated, compared to 39 in South Asia and 29 in East Asia. Fertilizer use in Africa amounts to just 13 kilograms per hectare, compared to 90 kilograms in South Asia and 190 kilograms in East Asia.

Long term estimates project that over a 50 year time horizon, most of the planet s arable land would have to be used to feed the world and for forest conservation. Thus, areas dedicated to energy production, particularly biofuel, may not reach the level that societies would wish.

The Committee is concerned about the situation of rural women and regrets that the report did not provide sufficient information on their de facto position in all sectors, including education, health and employment, and in regard to their access to credit, arable land and drinking water.

The untold suffering caused to vulnerable segments of African society, namely, women, children and the aged, as the result of violent conflicts and the attendant desolation of vast expanses of fertile, arable land continues to make headlines in the international media and provoke our horror and dismay.

According to United Nations agencies on the ground, this situation is the result of a combination of factors, including drought, infestation, land pressure and reduced amounts of arable land for households, reduced land productivity and malnutrition, resulting from cycles of common and chronic diseases, including malaria and HIV AIDS.

Today we appreciate the demographic strength, the hydrologic potential, the arable lands, the mineral wealth and the profound awareness of the African leaders and the resurgence of their will to achieve integration and their devotion to multilateralism and presence in the international community as a regional progressive identity.

The achievement of food security for 1.2 billion people had always been a strategic issue of the highest priority and over the years China had managed unaided to feed 22 per cent of the world apos s population with 7 per cent of the world apos s arable land.

A more immediate challenge is ensuring that crops receive sufficient water, which requires building and maintaining efficient irrigation systems to stabilize yields and enable farmers to harvest an additional crop each year. As it stands, only 4 of arable land in Sub Saharan Africa is irrigated, compared to 38 in Asia.

19 Owing to factors such as population growth, desertification and land degradation, arable land per member of the agricultural population of most developing countries has been declining for the past 30 years Ruth S. Meinzen Dick and others, Gender and property rights an overview , World Development, vol. 25, No. 8 (1997).

Let me give a few examples which might illustrate these considerations. The aim of development assistance is to improve the livelihoods of people, especially the poorest. Steep population increases can exacerbate competition not only for social services, employment and other income opportunities but also for arable land, water and energy.