Intensive farming is depleting soils.

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.

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.

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.

The fields are barren.

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.

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

Poor ground, you say?

Below the hillside was a bare plain.

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

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.

National Committee for Arid Zones

Good earth. Rich earth.

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

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

Poverty, ignorance, and lack of respect for human rights all created fertile ground in which terrorism could grow.

Land degradation and food insecurity were basically poverty related problems.

Dirt. Earth. Soil.

Gordon Gekko Reborn

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

Agricultural soils

Agricultural soils

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,

Clean soil is a critical problem the nitrification, the dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico.

Selamatkan Tanah kita

The soil here is fertile.

The soil is extremely good.

Civil Soil

SOTER Soils and Terrain Digital Database (UNEP FAO International Soil Reference and Information Center International Society of Soil Sciences)

SOTER Soils and Terrain Digital Database (FAO International Soil Reference and Information Center International Society of Soil Sciences UNEP)

This is very good soil.

8. Southern African Regional Commission for the Conservation and Utilization of Soil (SARCCUS).

The earth says it's high time...

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.

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

Background information on structure and or content In table 5 (II), Parties may choose to report N2O emissions from the drainage of soils from two land use categories, Forest Land and Wetlands, for both organic and mineral soils, if they wish to do so.

I've been building topsoil.

This is how soil is created.

Steaming piles of humus.

N2O from agricultural soils

Soil erosion (by wind and water).