| 1. | Millions of rural blacks are crowded onto " communal areas " of stony depleted soil.
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| 2. | However, over-farming and poor farming practices are depleting soil nutrients on many farms and plots.
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| 3. | Some commentators claim that removal of additional cellulosic biomass for biofuel production will further deplete soils.
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| 4. | After 1300 prosperity was more tenuous owing to a combination of over-population, land shortages and depleted soils.
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| 5. | Wheat futures dropped after weekend rains washed through the winter-wheat belt, adding to depleted soil moisture supplies.
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| 6. | A 2015 study found that farming can deplete soil carbon and render soil incapable of supporting life.
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| 7. | Economic growth began to falter at the end of the thirteenth century, owing to a combination of depleted soils.
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| 8. | Svosve's depleted soil is so thin that " we dodge the stones like monkeys, " said Modesto Murambatsvina, 36.
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| 9. | However, the ectomycorrhizal fungi of these species also tend to deplete soil carbon over relatively short periods of time.
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| 10. | As extensive farming was used, the areas with depleted soil were abandoned for new land, often obtained through deforestation.
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