We'd go from three percent of the arable land, to four percent.

Israeli forces had destroyed 10 per cent of the arable land in Gaza.

Nineteen million hectares of rainforest are lost every year to create new arable land.

Turn it into a square that stands for all the arable land on Earth.

Only seven percent of arable land in Africa is irrigated, compared to 40 percent in Asia.

Under land management, adaptation options included afforestation, reforestation of marginal lands and protection of arable land.

The world is likely to lose one third of its arable land by the end of the century.

The Israeli forces had also destroyed thousands of hectares of arable land and hundreds of wells and agricultural warehouses.

That's the Sahara eating up almost two meters a day of the arable land, physically pushing people away from their homes.

Same idea series of semi independent city states, little blobs of metropolitan stuff with arable land around, joined to one another by railway.

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

During the 2004 planting season, it was estimated that less than 30 per cent of arable land was cultivated in 2005 this percentage is likely to decline even further.

The scope of the phenomenon is enormous. Since 2006, between 15 and 20 million hectares of farmland, the equivalent of the total arable surface of France, have been the subject of negotiations by foreign investors.

If you move the dots down to the bottom of the rectangle you can see that the cities for the existing three billion urban residents take up only three percent of the arable land on earth.

Although crop land per capita will continue to decline, more arable land is available worldwide than previously thought. The example of the use of the Brazilian cerrado, once considered useless, augurs well for the African savannas.

Food supply has not collapsed (1.5 billion hectares of arable land are being used, but another 2.7 billion hectares are in reserve). Malnourishment has dropped by more than half, from 35 of the world s population to under 16 .

Loss of the ancient cedar, pine, fir, and oak forests on the slopes above is another matter. This year s snowmelt caused landslides and flooding a warning of more soil erosion and destruction of arable land to come hundreds died and thousands lost their livelihoods.

Only 4 of arable and permanent cropland is irrigated, compared to 39 in South Asia and 29 in East Asia. Fertilizer use in Africa amounts to just 13 kilograms per hectare, compared to 90 kilograms in South Asia and 190 kilograms in East Asia.

Long term estimates project that over a 50 year time horizon, most of the planet s arable land would have to be used to feed the world and for forest conservation. Thus, areas dedicated to energy production, particularly biofuel, may not reach the level that societies would wish.

The Committee is concerned about the situation of rural women and regrets that the report did not provide sufficient information on their de facto position in all sectors, including education, health and employment, and in regard to their access to credit, arable land and drinking water.

According to United Nations agencies on the ground, this situation is the result of a combination of factors, including drought, infestation, land pressure and reduced amounts of arable land for households, reduced land productivity and malnutrition, resulting from cycles of common and chronic diseases, including malaria and HIV AIDS.

Today we appreciate the demographic strength, the hydrologic potential, the arable lands, the mineral wealth and the profound awareness of the African leaders and the resurgence of their will to achieve integration and their devotion to multilateralism and presence in the international community as a regional progressive identity.

A more immediate challenge is ensuring that crops receive sufficient water, which requires building and maintaining efficient irrigation systems to stabilize yields and enable farmers to harvest an additional crop each year. As it stands, only 4 of arable land in Sub Saharan Africa is irrigated, compared to 38 in Asia.

19 Owing to factors such as population growth, desertification and land degradation, arable land per member of the agricultural population of most developing countries has been declining for the past 30 years Ruth S. Meinzen Dick and others, Gender and property rights an overview , World Development, vol. 25, No. 8 (1997).

SANTIAGO Where do Latin American elites come from? If the magical realist fiction once so popular in the United States and Europe is any guide, they belong to one of the 14 families (yes, that is always the number) that since colonial times have owned all arable land along with everything else.

In the past, cattle, sheep, and goats fed on grass and other energy sources unavailable to humans, while pigs and chickens fed on waste, thus contributing overall to total food availability. Now one third of all arable land is used to grow crops to feed livestock, not to grow staple crops for people.

The world is undergoing an unprecedented and irreversible wave of urbanization, with the share of the global population living in cities set to reach 60 by 2030. But rapid urbanization is driving up industrial fossil fuel consumption and household water consumption, and is increasing demand for food in areas where arable land is scarce.