The pie chart illustrates the occasions that are responsible for degradation of firming land and the table further elaborates how much land in North America, Europe and Oceania was degraded due to these occasions during the period of 1990s. Overall, it can be seen that Over-cultivation did not...
The Yellow River, known as China’s “mother river” and the cradle of Chinese civilization, supplies water to 12 percent of China’s population and irrigates 17 percent of the country’s arable land. However, the Yellow River used to suffer from frequent dike breaks and course changes throu...
Trade through Manila, in the Philippines, also brought silver into the South China economy. Chinese merchants from Guangdong and Fujian provinces sailed to Manila with their goods, which the Spanish bought with silver. From there the silver flowed back to China as the Chinese commodities found ...
The Yellow River, known as China’s “mother river” and the cradle of Chinese civilization, supplies water to 12 percent of China’s population and irrigates 17 percent of the country’s arable land. However, the Yellow River used to suffer from frequent dike breaks and course changes throu...
Despite the slowdown in large-scale agricultural land acquisitions in recent years, huge tracts of land have already changed hands, and such land acquisitions continue to take place (albeit on a much smaller scale). Ethiopia is an African country that has attracted significant attention in relation...
The Yellow River, known as China’s “mother river” and the cradle of Chinese civilization, supplies water to 12 percent of China’s population and irrigates 17 percent of the country’s arable land. However, the Yellow River used to suffer from frequent dike breaks and course changes throu...
per capita has increasedby almost twice as muchsince the 1960s. A third of the food at retail and consumer levels ends up as waste, of which more than 55% is sent to landfills, while the rest finds other food management pathways such as combustion, composting, donation, and land ...
Hydrological modeling is an indispensable component of water resources research and management in large river basins. There is a tendency for each new grou
In recent years, China's agricultural land has decreased year by year. In order to alleviate the shortage of land and improve the efficiency of land use, the state has successively issued a number of relevant policies to encourage the transfer of agricultural land management rights. In this con...
A change in price will not cause the demand curve to shift. CASE STUDY: AL'S BIG BURGERS 1 ▶ What is meant by effective demand? Effective demand shows how much would be bought (i.e. how much people can afford to buy and would actually buy) at any given price...