The fields are barren.

Poor ground, you say?

Intensive farming is depleting soils.

National Committee for Arid Zones

Below the hillside was a bare plain.

And there the land was poor and wild game rare.

Step one is that the Taliban prey on families that are large, that are poor, that live in rural areas.

Now, we're talking about a continent that is not poor.

Yes, stranger, you're dead right. Awful poor ground.

This is a rugged and barren landscape, yet there are quite a few spiders here.

clinging to rock, and eating it too ... transforming barren land.

Technically speaking, to be decadent is to be weak, diminished in energy, sterile.

Somalia is mostly a barren land with long coasts on the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.

Because the land is so infertile, they largely are shepherds, which occasions regular, low intensity physical activity.

But what Galileo saw was a rocky, barren world, which he expressed through his watercolor painting.

This piece, which is called Flipped Earth she was interested in taking the sky and using it to cleanse barren ground.

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

In Sudan, IFAD has funded research into cash and forage crop varieties that are resistant to drought, salinity and poor soil conditions.

To give just one example, in Peru harsh local environments, characterized by depleted saline soils and high altitudes, have traditionally caused many crops to fail.

Unsustainable land use practices constitute one of the major threats to sustainable food production on much of the Earth's marginally productive lands.

40. The rural population in the country s five districts consists mainly of nomadic herdsmen living precariously on pastures depleted by drought and overgrazing.

We've been familiar for 40 years with this image the fragile beauty of land, ocean and clouds, contrasted with the sterile moonscape on which the astronauts left their footprints.

We went and found these incredible clam beds sitting on the barren rock. Large clams, and when we opened them, they didn't look like a clam.

Deterioration of marginal lands has repercussions for populated regions and productive lands, and so Governments often make major investments in economically marginal regions.

They are located in fragile ecosystems and have been subject to strong degradation for many years, owing to environmental stress (arid climate, poor soils, strong erosion, overgrazing and demographic expansion).

17. Agricultural activities, limited by infertile soil, low rainfall and high labour costs, have nearly doubled over the past five years, with 10 large farms totalling over 100 acres now in service.

So it was like a green inkblot spreading out from the building turning barren land back into biologically productive land and in that sense, going beyond sustainable design to achieve restorative design.

And he had a dream that he would build a housing community on this barren piece of land using patient capital, but he continued to pay a price.

On the other hand, little land is available for housing and agriculture, which makes people use unproductive and or inappropriate hillsides for agricultural production and housing damaging the environment even further.

Considering that the unfavourable and insular situation of the Comoros, which is among the least developed countries, the decline in the gross domestic product of the country caused by the fall in the prices of its export products, the poverty of its soil, the scarcity of its natural resources and the diminutive size of its domestic market have adverse economic consequences and increase the impoverishment of the population,

The villages that I visited in Tajikistan, Yemen, Mali, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Malawi, Cambodia, and elsewhere reflect the condition of hundreds of millions of impoverished people worldwide. Whether caused by drought, exhausted soils, locusts, lack of high yield seeds, the results were the same desperation, disease, and death.

In collaboration with UNESCO and the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA), as well as with other stakeholders, UNU has developed a research project in Egypt and Tunisia, amongst other Arab speaking countries, on sustainable management of marginal drylands.

Demographic growth over territory that consisted largely of unproductive and fragile land and infertile soil, and the absence of soil replenishment had eroded the natural capital and exerted excessive pressure on existing natural resources.

5. A new CAP should include a policy to safeguard Europe s landscapes. But a cultural heritage should not be maintained everywhere, nor should it ignore cost.

But a cultural heritage should not be maintained everywhere, nor should it ignore cost. And it should not be a defensive policy of the sort that tends to concentrate on poor quality land.

Within the framework of the rehabilitation of degraded lands, including integrated water resources management, UNESCO is working on a new interregional project, Sustainable Management of Marginal Drylands (SUMAMAD) , which will benefit north African and Asian countries.

Noting also that the unfavourable situation of the Comoros, which is on the list of least developed countries, is aggravated by several important factors, including its physical distance from its trading partners, the scarcity of natural resources, the diminutive size of the domestic market, the fall in prices of its export products and the poverty of its soil,

The land trembles and is in pain for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

The land trembles and is in pain for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

And the land shall tremble and sorrow for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.

And the land shall tremble and sorrow for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.

Water stressed regions like Ethiopia and Sudan can adapt, at least in part, through improved technologies such as drip irrigation, rainwater harvesting, improved water storage facilities, deep wells, and agro forestry techniques that make best use of scarce rainfall. Better land management practices (the re planting of degraded forests, for example) can recharge underground water aquifers.

One course of action must be to help impoverished African regions to adapt to climate change and to escape the poverty trap. Water stressed regions like Ethiopia and Sudan can adapt, at least in part, through improved technologies such as drip irrigation, rainwater harvesting, improved water storage facilities, deep wells, and agro forestry techniques that make best use of scarce rainfall.

Organization of work

This was another site where it had been bare and eroding, and at the base of the marked small tree, we had lost over 30 centimeters of soil.