1.   Population growth is causing people to clear more woodland so that they can cultivate the land.

2.   The tribe cultivated the land and grew the food.

3.   Prehistoric peoples settled the area and began to cultivate the land.

4.   The aim is to cultivate the land without worrying all the time about the biggest possible return.

5.   Farmers are being paid hundreds of pounds an acre for NOT cultivating their land.

6.   In many ways they seemed to have been on the verge of civilisation, as they kept pigs, and cultivated the land for millet.

7.   Fields are cut down the middle, with neither side willing, yet, to cultivate land held by an opposing ethnic group.

8.   He will probably think about times he spent with his father and his grandfather who cultivated the land.

9.   On that site at Hassuna in Mesopotamia people had settled and begun to cultivate land, herd cattle, build mud-brick houses and make pottery.

10.   Other methods to fight the fires would include controlling shifting cultivation by nomadic peoples to slash and burn forests in order ot cultivate land.