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In Britain, arable land has traditionally been contrasted with pasturable land such as heaths, which could be used for sheep-rearing but not as farmland. Arable land is vulnerable to land degradation and some types of un-arable land can be enriched to create useful land. Climate change and biodiversity loss, are driving pressure on arable land. [5]
(pl.) aboiteaux A sluice or conduit built beneath a coastal dike, with a hinged gate or a one-way valve that closes during high tide, preventing salt water from flowing into the sluice and flooding the land behind the dike, but remains open during low tide, allowing fresh water precipitation and irrigation runoff to drain from the land into the sea; or a method of land reclamation which relies ...
Prices and rents for agricultural land depend on supply and demand. Prices/rents rise when the supply of farmland on the market reduces. Landholders then put more land on the market – causing prices to fall. Conversely, land prices/rents fall when the demand for agricultural land declines because of falls in the returns from holding and using it.
Arura (Ancient Greek: ἄρουρα, romanized: aroura) is a Homeric Greek [1] word with original meaning "arable land", derived from the verb ἀρόω (aroō), "plough". [2] The word was also used generally for earth, land and father-land and in plural to describe corn-lands and fields. [3]
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Agricultural expansion describes the growth of agricultural land (arable land, pastures, etc.) especially in the 20th and 21st centuries.. The agricultural expansion is often explained as a direct consequence of the global increase in food and energy requirements due to continuing population growth (both which in turn have been attributed to agricultural expansion itself [1] [2]), with an ...
Arable / ˈ ær ə b əl / relates to the growing of crops: Arable farming or agronomy, the cultivation of field crops; Arable land, land upon which crops are cultivated; Arable crops program, a consolidated support system operated under the EU Common Agricultural Policy; Fivehead Arable Fields, a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset ...
A back paddock is a smaller field that is situated away from the farm house; possibly land of lesser quality. [5] The equivalent concept in North America and the UK is a pasture. In Australia, the word seems to have had its current meaning since at least 1807 [6] and in New Zealand since at least 1842. [7]