as in agricultural
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Looking to the future With the global population growing and arable land shrinking, vertical farming offers a promising solution to future food security challenges.
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Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 14 Oct. 2024
Across Africa, aridity has led to a 12% plunge in GDP, partly driven by degradation of arable land.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
One study predicted that replacing arable land with Miscanthus × giganteus plantations could sequester between two and three metric tons of carbon per hectare every year in the plants’ underground roots.
—Juergen Eckhardt, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
The country itself is the fourth wealthiest in the EU, with a GDP per capita of $52,000 (€48,000) and the CIA World Factbook lists its natural resources as petroleum, natural gas, fish, arable land, salt, limestone, chalk, stone, gravel and sand.
—Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 14 Oct. 2024
Across Africa, aridity has led to a 12% plunge in GDP, partly driven by degradation of arable land.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
One study predicted that replacing arable land with Miscanthus × giganteus plantations could sequester between two and three metric tons of carbon per hectare every year in the plants’ underground roots.
—Juergen Eckhardt, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
The country itself is the fourth wealthiest in the EU, with a GDP per capita of $52,000 (€48,000) and the CIA World Factbook lists its natural resources as petroleum, natural gas, fish, arable land, salt, limestone, chalk, stone, gravel and sand.
—Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Arable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arable. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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