(a) Causes of depletion of energy sources. Increasing pressure on agricultural land due to a growing world population has led to encroachment on forest reserves.

The international community was most concerned about the wall's encroachment on Palestinian land and interests and the great hardships created for the people affected by its construction.

Its borders are not impervious to encroachment by universal ills.

The wall's encroachment on Palestinian land and interests creates great hardships for the Palestinian people affected by its construction and exacerbates the situation by placing populations, agricultural land and a part of the West Bank aquifer beyond their reach.

8. Soil pollution, urban encroachment onto agricultural land and the potential effects of global climatic change, while well recognized as actual or potential problems, have not been assessed in this study.

That, in turn, implies less human encroachment into natural ecosystems, enabling greater biodiversity.

Forests have deteriorated, due to illegal harvesting and encroachment for agriculture and settlement.13

encroachment of the Azerbaijani forces into the border regions of the Republic of Armenia

Alarmed by European encroachment in China, Britain also feared for the security of Hong Kong.

While the growth of human settlements is unavoidable, a lack of land use planning has led to the encroachment of human settlements on scarce fertile land, and as discussed above, inadequacies of services and sanitation facilities have exacerbated environmental problems which have direct impacts on human health.

No one could object to the construction of the wall in areas coinciding with the Green Line, but its encroachment on Palestinian land and interests brought great hardship for the people and exacerbated the situation.

Encroachment on the Islamic holy sites will not contribute to peace or stability for the parties concerned.

Gansu s challenges range from modernizing its heavy industries to resisting desertification and the encroachment of the Gobi desert.

The Chinese Government and people strongly condemn and firmly oppose such a gross encroachment on China's internal affairs.

Women have led the way to protest corporate encroachment on the rain forest and its life sustaining, planet sustaining environment.

Nevertheless, fiscal rules and common banking supervision are still regarded in many quarters as an illegitimate encroachment on member states sovereignty.

From the current French viewpoint, however, laws and regulations based on ethnicity are regarded as an unwelcome encroachment on the Republican ideal.

My delegation shares the growing concern at the Security Council's gradual encroachment on the powers and the mandate of the General Assembly.

(v) Significant flows of refugees or displaced persons resulting from a pattern of racial discrimination or encroachment on the lands of minority communities.

Encroachment on their lands and their displacement from lands should not be resorted to in the name of development projects or perceived security considerations.

Nigeria had embarked on an ambitious project to check and reverse the rate of desert encroachment and ensure the sustainable management of forest resources.

Land? Selling land?

At the height of America s power, Russia had resigned itself to the apparently unstoppable encroachment of NATO on the Soviet Union s former sphere of influence.

Diminished biodiversity, due to habitat encroachment, fragmentation and pesticide misuse, also leads farmers to rely on greenhouse gas generating chemical inputs to increase their yields.

Niger, which has had to deal with the galloping and frightening encroachment of the desert, is following with close interest the work of this committee.

Such an approach has in no way deterred, but indeed encouraged, the Serbs in their continued encroachment on territory, calculated duplicity and bypassing of agreements.

The transformation of grasslands into deserts due to deforestation, encroachment into forests for subsistence farming, overgrazing, and loss of biodiversity and soil threaten the entire continent.

Encroachment by the Council on issues that fall within the purview of other organs of the United Nations, particularly the General Assembly, has regrettably become commonplace.

Agricultural land and pastoral land

agricultural land and pastoral land

Grassland to forested land Cropland to forested land Wetland to forested land Settlement to forested land.

Three systems of land tenure obtain namely, tribal land (73 ), state land (23 ), and freehold land (4 ).

Declining rainfall contributed directly or indirectly to crop failures, the encroachment of the desert into pasturelands, the decline of water and grassland for livestock, and massive deforestation.

German rule Namibia became a German colony in 1884 under Otto von Bismarck to forestall British encroachment and was known as German South West Africa ( Deutsch Südwestafrika ).

Roles should, however, be demarcated clearly to ensure complementarity of purpose and support, without any undue influence or encroachment on each other's mandates or spheres of competency.

In this context, we are further concerned over certain aspects of the restructuring of the Secretariat of the United Nations that strengthen the tendency to such encroachment.

The Masai of East Africa can say that their pastoral tradition has been destroyed in that way because of the massive encroachment on their lands and territories.

Land tenure and access to land

Land use (percent of total land) ____________

Energy Infrastructure The RapidEye constellation can monitor pipeline and transmission corridors and identify problems on the ground such as vegetation encroachment, nearby buildings, development of roads or leaks.

Land use, land use change and forestry

No not the land! Not the land!

1. The new international humanitarian order should oblige States to recognize human rights in their constitutions in order to ensure constitutional protection of human rights from any encroachment thereon.

Land

Take away land speculation, price of land drops.