This is the area the UN says could be rehabilitated. Desertification is a form of land degradation by which fertile land loses much of its biological — and economic — productivity, and becomes ...

At 270,000 square miles, the plain is one of the most fertile stretches of land in the world ... moisture from the ocean during the summer. An illustration shows a coastal village at the base ...

Highly fertile and rich in organic matter ... At the present time almost 16% of the land area of cultivated organic soil in Québec's Montérégie region is already considered thin and highly ...

Without agriculture, as a hunter-gatherer species, we would (like any other animal) breed up to the limit the land could support and then suffer culls by starvation and disease to maintain this level.

Cotton transformed the United States, making fertile land in the Deep South, from Georgia to Texas, extraordinarily valuable. Growing more cotton meant an increased demand for slaves. Slaves in ...

Farmers in Darga, a hamlet under Savadi GP located on the bank of the Krishna River in Athani taluk, are worried about the erosion of fertile land in the backwater of Hipparagi dam. Fertile land ...

Cities around the world face a similar dilemma: population growth and housing shortages mean urban expansion often encroaches on rural productive land. Fertile soil is one of the reasons why many ...