Agriculture is considered as one of the oldest and most important sector which provides employment to large sections of the society. The land is mainly used for the agricultural activities. The significant changes in the society tend to change the land use pattern. The factors such as high growth rate of population engulfing precious land for settlement, scarcity of land for ever increasing demand for food, development of industrial sector, urbanization, conversion of paddy lands for non- agricultural purposes etc. contribute for the change in land use pattern. In every year the society is losing a percentage of arable land due to population growth and infrastructural development. The changes in land use results in scarcity of food and shortage …show more content…
The findings revealed that the study area experienced a significant reduction in agricultural land and this leads to continued disappearance of farmlands. It leads to loss of livelihood, reduction in food supply and increase in poverty. These changes are attributed to urban expansion, population growth, socio economic factors, environmental variables and natural factors. Harris, (2013) evaluated that the current land use patterns and urban and agricultural land use change from 1989 to 2012 in Shippensburg. The paper clearly showed that agricultural land was being converted to urban land at high rates from 1989 to 2011. In 1989, 76% of the study area was agricultural land, and in 2011 agricultural land was down to just 59% of the land area. The study suggested that planners can use land over maps and the results of land cover change detection to guide future growth of this …show more content…
The study highlighted that the changes in land use obviously reflect the pressure on land resource due to rising population. It also noted that changing techniques of production, changes in the pattern of land utilization, of natural as well as human resources, industrialization, urbanization, changing life styles, rising aspirations and changes in consumption pattern are some of the macro level factors which make the relationship between population and land use much more complex. Moreover this paper reveals a complex relationship between population growth and land utilization pattern in India. Further the findings showed that the present system of the land usage fails to capture both the quantitative and qualitative changes. So there is a need to strengthen the land use policies for the development of the
Mansfield Summit Allocation Case Study Mansfield Summit is a Title 1 campus that serves the students of south Arlington, Texas. The campus is one of eight high school campus in the Mansfield Independent School District (MISD). According to the U.S News 2014-2015 ranking criteria, Summit is ranked 185 within Texas and has earned a silver medal – a recognition only awarded to the top 10 percent of all schools analyzed. Under the State Board of Education accountability ratings, Mansfield Summit has met standards. Mansfield Summit’s budget allocation procedures follow specific campus guidelines, follows the federal guidelines for Title I spending, and the principal along with campus committees determines campus monies allocation.
Forest Acres is a community located in Richland County of Columbia, South Carolina. It is a community that was incorporated in the year 1935 near the waters of Dent’s Pond, now known as Forest Lake, due to John Hughes Cooper and James Henry Hammond both having real estate interests in the area. After Cooper purchased Dent’s Pond (Forest Lake) and 1,700 acres of land, Hammond purchased 67 acres from Cooper on Quinine Hill; developing it into a suburban area for local businessmen who worked in the downtown area. In order for Cooper and Hammond to name this location, a petition was signed by residents; voting on whether to name the area Forest Acres or Quinine Hill. As a result, the name Forest Acres won majority votes; making it the official
To obtain grass again dirt must be placed down along with grass seeds and be artificially grown. In the event that we need once again more farmland many of the flat land in urban areas is all ready being used by parking lots and such other constructs. In my opinion I believe that the construction of new buildings on new plots of land has to come to an end relatively soon before their is no more land for anyone to us. However, I agree with the idea of putting up new building. I agree with the idea of using all ready ruined land such as old strip malls and other such places to build these new buildings.
Essay 1 Every year about a third of what the world produces is wasted. This equates to 2.9 trillion pounds of food. The wastage comes from our homes, restaurants, and even the farmers who produce it. Food wastage is an epidemic with dangerous outcomes; from deforestation to the draining of our fresh-water bodies, the population is in trouble.
Tremendous population growth and depletion of nutrients from overplanting were causing great demand for land. The birth
Throughout the book, Changes in the Land, by William Cronon, ecological changes in colonial England are discussed, analyzed, and elaborated. The first part of the book, Looking Backward, talks of many comparisons between Henry David Thoreau and his outlook on his Concord home to William Wood’s perspective of New England. Through these comparisons, the ecosystem of New England is described, along with how the Europeans and the Indians interact with each other, which in turn affected the eventual outcomes of the ecosystem. The second part of the book, The Ecological Transformation of New England, speaks of how the Indians were reserved with their land and resources, never using more than they needed nor more than they knew they had. However,
William Cronon’s Changes in the Land shows the effect on the land of widely disparate conceptions of ownership owned by Indians and English colonists. He also interprets the situations occurring in New England with the plant and animal communities and the change from Indian to English take over. As residents of Europe were introduced to North America, the boundaries between the two were unclear. Cronon uses evidence to explain the situation that led to the ecological ramification of contact with New England. The law materialized land, making it material of which the purchaser had ownership.
The land grant universities in the United States have a rich history of public service, practical research, teaching and outreaching for ordinary citizens. The success in this system over decades working hard to meet the communities’ needs in the United States and the world at large did not help to avoid some challenges. The land grant universities are facing many challenges and these challenges will continue within the next five to twenty five years, such as the climate changing and its impact on agricultural productivity, the engagement with the community, and the increase of professors and undergraduate students’ ages in the land grant universities. One of the most important challenges that faced land grant universities is that the global
1. Perception categories that significantly influenced walking frequency were landuse, and aesthetics and amenities. The safety, directness and continuity perception categories were not significant but had weak to moderate associations with land use and aesthetics perception. This implies improving perception of one category is bound to improve or negatively impact the perception of a correlated category. For example landuse perception was correlated with directness perception - which is intuitive, given that directness measured quick and easy access to land uses.
The years between 1865 and 1920 could be described a time of great change for African Americans in the United States. The year of 1865 President Lincoln established the Emancipation Proclamation this means that it did not end slavery. As a result of the Emancipation Proclamation the Civil War Amendments were the designed to ensure equality for recently emancipated slaves. The 13th Amendment was passed, this was a presidential proclamation and the executive order issue. Due to the passing of the 15th amendment tenants began to take advantage of the fact people were starting to receive more rights.
In the address “Vast Wasteland”, Newton Minow elaborated how television can influence the taste, knowledge, and opinions of all viewers. Minows address elaborates how “The power of instantaneous sight and sound is without precedent in mankind’s history.” (Minow), will have a tremendous amount of responsibility to go with it. Likewise, anything played on television should be to assist in making our nation better instead of advertising bad morals and inappropriate behavior. Minow realized the amount of power television has on people.
Agriculture is the modification of Earth’s surface through the cultivation of plants and animals through the cultivation of plants and animals to obtain economic gain. It was also a key development for the rise of the domestication of animals. Although, its origins cannot be documented for certainty because agriculture began before recorded history, scholars believe that it was started in Southwest Asia. Also, agriculture entails selective breeding of animals with combinations of inherited characteristics that benefits humans. Around the world, agriculture’s steps are the same, but the type of animals that were raised or cultivated differently.
Introduction: “Sustainable agriculture is the efficient production of safe high quality agricultural products, in a way that protects and improves the natural environment the social and economic conditions of farmers their employees and local communities and safe guard the health and welfare of all farmed species“ There are three main principles of sustainable agriculture, the three principles are: 1. Economic sustainability 2. Environmental sustainability 3. Social sustainability With the human population continuing to rise, it is vital that the agricultural industry becomes more sustainable to meet the needs of the growing population. One of the impacts of this growing population is an increase in land usage for settlement purposes.
It has come to my attention that urbanization tends to take place mainly on farmlands, in 2010, statistics were released showing that America loses an acre of farmland every minute and that the U.S. has lost more than 6 million acres of farmland since 1997. We not only lose an acre every minute, but the loss suffered by farmers and wildlife. Urban sprawl is the toughest problem we face, we lose some of the best fruit farms the country has by replacing them with large houses, parking lots, highways, stores, and malls. When you look around you don 't see very many farmlands which is hard to think that we will have enough land to grow our food in the future with growth of population comes more people and more people comes the need for more housing, which causes cities, and towns to constantly expand. The fact that we lose an acre of land every minute makes it hard to feed a large population, while urban sprawl increases population it also decrease the amount of food like fresh supply, and local foods.