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… rivers. Lake sediments commonly are thick and have more organic deposits. These poorly permeable organic materials can affect the distribution of seep- age … as well as the necessary enabling factors associated with farming, e.g. access to energy, credit, agricultural inputs, …

… This reallocative effect would not be merely within the farming sector. There was also the prospect of reducing … switch water from lower to higher productivity uses in the farming sector. In Australia, at that time, the agricultural … into river red gum watering, salinity dilution and dairy farming were forecast. In 1995 the Council of Australian …

… Urbanisation, industrialisation and intensification of farming practices have led to an escalating demand for … crops, which can result in elevated nitrate, chloride, and organic carbon concentration and, in some cases, to faecal … that can adhere to the surfaces of clay minerals and/or organic matter (see Box 2.1). The properties of the strata …

… terms, for example the net benefits of hydropower or farming, or the cost of refurbishing a power plant. The price … result in water in-stre- am. In particular, challenges by farming interests have held up or delayed the allocation of … costs associated with piping in residential or hobby farming areas can also be significant. Permanent transfers of …

… and promote measures which safeguard the processes of organic decomposition and thereby its continuing fertility. … (i) improve soil conservation and introduce sustainable farming and forestry practices, which ensure long-term …

… MEAs Multilateral Environmental Agreements POPs Persistent Organic Pollutants SADC Southern African Development … Chemical pollution, which refers primarily to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) (s.a. mercury and cadmium), also … calculated, those benefits far exceeded those derived from farming the land, an average of US$5,800 per hectare of …

… Malaria Control and the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants’, Review 2007, 213–230; Ed Couzens, … threats include the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs),16 the Con- vention on the Prior … and has always depended on the land for subsistence farming, gathering, hunting, and fishing.42 In fact, the Awas …