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  • verb Present participle of overfarm.

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Examples

  • I'm far, far more concerned about all the crap in the ocean, (dead zones, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch) overfishing, overfarming, eradication of natural zones and life, overpopulation, toxic waste, the garbage we generate ... than I am about the weather.

    Blog Action Day: Is Climate Change / Global Warming Real? » E-Mail 2009

  • I'm far, far more concerned about all the crap in the ocean, (dead zones, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch) overfishing, overfarming, eradication of natural zones and life, overpopulation, toxic waste, the garbage we generate ... than I am about the weather.

    Blog Action Day: Is Climate Change / Global Warming Real? 2009

  • Inventor Pieter Hoff retired from the lily and tulip export business in 2003 to develop a product that he thinks can help save mankind as the world's population soars: a contraption called the Groasis Waterboxx, a plant incubator that doesn't need irrigating and which could help make fertile again the 70% of the world's arid and semi-arid lands whose productivity has been hit by deforestation and overfarming.

    Pieter Hoff: Teach plants to grow in arid places Caspar Llewellyn Smith 2010

  • As I had seen in Shandong, Gansu, Xinjiang, and Heilongjiang, overgrazing, overfarming, overpopulation, and misuse of water resources had taken their toll.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • As I had seen in Shandong, Gansu, Xinjiang, and Heilongjiang, overgrazing, overfarming, overpopulation, and misuse of water resources had taken their toll.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • As I had seen in Shandong, Gansu, Xinjiang, and Heilongjiang, overgrazing, overfarming, overpopulation, and misuse of water resources had taken their toll.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • The nutritional value of our food has been compromised by factors that range from corporate agribusiness, overfarming, and depleting the nutrient levels of the soil to food conglomerates like Kraft, Nestlé, and Nabisco putting highly processed, high-glycemic-load foods on the market that contribute to every health problem we see today, from heart disease to dementia.

    The UltraMind Solution M.D. Mark Hyman 2009

  • Human actions -- deforestation, overfarming, rapid urbanization -- have created special vulnerabilities to catastrophic natural events that are likely as the climate changes globally.

    From On High 2007

  • Through their actions deforestation, overfarming and through climate shifts, their environment turned to hell in a handbasket.

    HH Com 156 Miss Snark 2006

  • The two hundred acres that had been in his family for generations were still struggling valiantly to produce crops, but time and overfarming had taken their toll.

    Terror At Dawn Douglass, Keith 2003

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