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.

The major land degradation problems in Egypt are related to hydrological constraints which cause waterlogging, salinity and alkalinity, physical constraints such as deterioration of the soil structure and compaction, and biological constraints caused by a decline in soil organic matter leading to declining soil fertility.

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.

These Visual Soil Assessment (VSA) indicators are morphological and measured soil characteristics that allow for the transfer of information between sites, soil types, land uses etc., while providing a cross check and physical reality to structure descriptors.

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

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

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

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.

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.

With the increasing amount of mulching film input in Xinjiang, the residual film recovery rate is low, the residual film volume in the soil is gradually increased, and the soil structure damages and other problems caused by residual film seriously affects the sustainable development of agriculture.

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.

The scatterometer was applied for mapping snow and ice morphology over Antarctica and for soil moisture mapping over the Canadian Prairies.

And the species in the soil go to work basically chewing through those roots, decomposing them the earthworms, the fungi, the bacteria and the result is new soil.

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 results of a case study on land degradation and soils in Lesotho were also presented to all the participants.

The soil is extremely good.

Civil Soil

Assist development and change designed to ameliorate economic conditions and or political structures that often provide fertile recruiting grounds for terrorist networks.

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)

The study focused on saline and sodic lands but other degradation processes of great importance in Kenya include fertility decline, soil acidification and aluminium toxicity, organic matter decline, wind and water erosion, and soil compaction.

This is very good soil.