The fields are barren.

Poor ground, you say?

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.

Below the hillside was a bare plain.

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

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

Intensive farming is depleting soils.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

...of any lawful impediment...

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

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

Effectively dealing with desertification will lead to a reduction in global poverty.

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

Desertification causes impoverishment of people.

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

He highlighted the nexus between poverty and desertification by mentioning that poverty forces people of the drylands to extract as much as they can from the forest for their survival and livelihoods which ultimately leads to desertification.

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.

Invites Parties and other relevant stakeholders to emphasize the desertification poverty nexus in their activities to celebrate the International Year of Deserts and Desertification, and to increase their efforts to implement the Convention with a view to bringing greater international attention to bear on the important linkage between land degradation, desertification, poverty and other socio economic aspects of land degradation

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).

Benin believed that the contribution of the Convention to Combat Desertification to reducing extreme poverty must be better analysed.

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.

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.

1. Printing of posters and flyers on a theme such as desertification and poverty, desertification and youth, or desertification and women ( 18,100)

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.

They have made it a desolation it mourns to me, being desolate the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.

They have made it a desolation it mourns to me, being desolate the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.

They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.

They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.

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.

The focus is on poverty reduction within the frame of combating desertification.

There can be no lasting peace in societies that are either openly or latently affected by poverty, unemployment, famine or disease.

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