pasturelands

About 30 percent of the pasturelands are in the same condition, which is also adding to problems with crop yields, problems with food security.

Drought Just One Example of Africa’s Changing Environment 2011

Eating less meat and more grains and vegetables helps reduce: the need to convert forests or grasslands to pasturelands, the amount of corn grown for feed (which lessens the amount of fossil fuels used to grow the corn), and greenhouse gas emissions from manure (see Farm Animals and Methane).

Environmental Defense Fund: Bothering to Save the Planet, One Step at a Time 2008

The next few days are spent visiting picturesque villages, with their ancient churches and Roman theaters and baths, before climbing to the pasturelands of Monte Subasio.

Walking in a Winter Wonderland Jemima Sissons 2010

Yar'Adua added that police believe 150 Boko Haram sect followers freed by the attack are hiding in the mountains surrounding the pasturelands of the rural region.

More than 700 inmates escape during attack on Nigerian prison agencies Kaduna 2010

But no, having been shipped to Lamphey Castle in a litter, I now ride to Newport on a fat cob, seated behind a manservant, unable to see anything of the road ahead of me and glimpsing muddy fields and pale pasturelands only through the jogging ranks of the men-at-arms.

The Red Queen Philippa Gregory 2010

In late February, evidence of vast, lush pasturelands surrounded the city.

Walking the walk, talking the talk - fiesta in Chiapas 2007

Why were the lush pasturelands lying vacant from crops in the huge lush valley below?

Walking the walk, talking the talk - fiesta in Chiapas 2007

In other words, they would have to go south into Italys pasturelands.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

American cities need to begin identifying, developing and supplying themselves from local "food sheds" -- their surrounding farms and pasturelands.

Scott Stringer and Joan Dye Gussow: A Recipe for a Healthier America 2009

Ethanol advocates in Brazil assert that millions of hectares are available for growing sugar cane outside of the Amazon rain forest in "grasslands," "scrublands" or "degraded pasturelands," by which they refer to land in the cerrado or in Brazil's Southeast.

Chris McGowan: Biofuel Could Eat Brazil's Savannas & Deforest the Amazon 2009