11.   In agriculture a set-aside scheme was also instituted, whereby farmers received compensation for taking arable land out of production.

12.   Succeeding generations of farmers built flood banks to create arable land out of a web of rivulets.

13.   Armed peasants rebelled in that southern state in January and continue demanding arable land for peasants.

14.   China has been on a tree-planting spree as desertification claims more and more arable land.

15.   Converting wetlands into arable land and construction sites is, of course, an age-old practice and such land is rarely returned to nature.

16.   For decades, the struggle for what little arable land is available has contributed to ethnic hatred between the majority Hutu and the minority Tutsi.

17.   Historically poor in natural resources and arable land, Japan has not been self-sufficient in food in its modern history.

18.   In Castroville, Andrew Molera, one such descendant, owned a large portion of the arable land and rented it to sugar beet growers for decades.

19.   In search of firewood and arable land, the refugees have encroached on the tropical forests.

20.   Increased population means further strains on already stretched resources of developing countries, particularly in terms of fresh water supplies and arable land.