Below the hillside was a bare plain.

The fields are barren.

Poor ground, you say?

Intensive farming is depleting soils.

National Committee for Arid Zones

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

This is how the prairies were built, the relationship between bison and grasses.

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

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.

It was also clear that feminized poverty was a central factor in the reproduction of poverty.

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.

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

Draft principle 3, entitled Objective , set forth the essential aim of the draft principles.

59. Part of the problem had been the traditional perception of poverty itself and of the poor.

Draft principle 3 Objective

Rice Cultivation Savanna Burning

51. There are many causes of poverty in Peru.

quot Poverty has various causes, including structural ones.

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.

For the purposes of the present draft principles

The purposes of the present draft principles are

Dryland, mediterranean, arid, semi arid, grassland and savannah ecosystems

Paragraph 1 (c) of the guidelines (poverty)

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.

Draft principle 1, entitled Scope of application , established that the draft principles had the same scope as the draft articles on prevention.

The fundamental principle underlying freedom of expression is that speech must be answered with more speech, never with violence, imprisonment, or censorship. Anti blasphemy laws not only violate that principle they can easily be abused as a tool of political power and impoverish their societies by imposing a code of rigid conformity.

Comments on the draft principles

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).

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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.