Its forests have been stripped for firewood ( and boat-building ), its potential for marketable crops such as coffee and sugar severely limited by land erosion resulting from the deforestation.
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A massive influx of these new farmers, combined with inappropriate cultivation techniques and misunderstanding of the ecology, led to immense land erosion and eventually the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
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Members of the House of Commons ( MPs ) were elected in an antiquated electoral system, under which Dunwich, which had almost completely disappeared into the sea due to land erosion.
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"Our livelihoods and sources of food security are already affected badly, with increased salinity in ground water, land erosion, coral bleaching and total anxiety, " Tuvalu's Acting Prime Minister, Maatia Toafa said Friday.
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Nathan Zohner of Idaho Falls described the dangers of the compound dihydrogen monoxide _ causes excessive sweating, contributes to land erosion and so forth _ and asked 50 ninth graders if it should be banned.
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"When I was growing up on the farm, " he told a Life interviewer in 1965, " I saw that land erosion was the result of little individual drops of rain, all adding up finally to a gully.
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Ministry officials warned that the loss of productive woodlands would eventually lead to land erosion, environmental degradation, energy shortages, food shortages, and rural poverty in general, and they hoped to change traditional attitudes toward forests and other natural resources.
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An important feature of the river banks is the flood protection walls all along the rivers, constructed by Sri Krishna Devaraya between 1525 and 1527 AD . You find them wherever there is a possibility of land erosion during the floods.
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Sand mining is a little known threat to biodiversity, water security and prime coastal or riverside land all over the world and is capable of causing land erosion, contaminating sweet water along coastlines and rivers, and destroying entire habitats in a very short space of time.
