land resources
- noun
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recursos de la tierra
- Governments must focus on sustainable practices to protect land resources for future generations.
- forest and land resources
- use of land resources
Examples
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Efficient use of land resources and control on development outside the city boundary.
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Access to land resources is essential for farmers to grow crops and sustain their livelihoods.
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Future research programs should assist nations and the region to achieve better governance of forest and land resources.
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Comprehensive planning is becoming more critical for cities and metropolitan areas due to increased pressure on land resources.
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Certainly, economic efficiency and rational use of land resources are taken into consideration.
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Although the overall trend is increased commercial exploitation of forest and land resources, additional trends are also evident.
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In Indonesia today, there is a complex mix of competition and mutualism in the quest for land resources.
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Depriving local communities of their forest land resources triggered various adverse impacts on the forest environment.
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And the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has identified critical zones and critical countries based on the capacity of land resources to support current and estimated future populations.
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Perhaps the most effective path to managing forest and coastal land resources is the development of more participatory approaches to land-use planning.
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Synonyms
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1.7
Land where people grow crops or raise animals
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3.0
Land that is used to grow crops like grains or vegetables
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2.9
Land prepared and used for growing crops like wheat or corn
How Much
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'land' (area of earth) modifies 'resources' (available materials), yielding resources that consist of land or usable arable area. This straightforward noun-noun combination follows common cross-linguistic patterns with no idiomatic shift, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Land resources comes from a simple image: land is the ground and resources are the useful things it provides, like soil, space and water. So the phrase means 'usable ground for farming or building' and helps you think of the land people need for food and development.