And the arable land is the land where we can grow crops.

耕地是我们可以种植庄稼的土地。

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a speech that " land degradation affects a significant portion of the Earth's arable lands, directly impacting the well-being of people and economic development of countries" .

联合国秘书长潘基文在表示，土地退化影响了大面积可耕土地，直接对人类生存，全球经济发展构成影响。”

Drained bogs make up seven percent of arable land in Germany.

排干的沼泽占德国可耕地的7%。

It is on this arable land that the farmers produce food for the whole population of China.

就是在仅有适于耕种的土地上农民们为全国的广大人口生产着粮。

The declines of ice may lead to the opening of Arctic shipping routes and the increase of suitable arable land, however, this can also lead to the intensification of the access to Arctic resources and geopolitical tussles, said Xiao.

肖说，冰川减少可能会导致北极航线的开放和适宜耕地的增加，但这也可能导致北极资源获取和地缘治角力的加剧。

We don't have to have arable land, and we can produce 50 times more on an area for example our seaweed farm at one hectare produces as much as 50 hectares of wheat.

我们不需要耕地，我们单位面积的产量可达50倍以上，举个例子，我们一公顷海藻养殖场的产量，相当于50公顷麦田的产量。

Evidence of this ongoing force known as desertification comes from satellite photographs of once arable fields now abandoned. But not all of them moved away.

从卫星照片可以看出沙漠化，曾可耕种的田地，如今弃置荒废。但并非所有地方都改变。

STEP 4 Tell them that much of the arable land worldwide is being used to grow grain to feed animals rather than people.

告诉他们，世界上大部分耕地都来种植饲养动物的谷物，而不是来供应人类。

We don't use any pesticides, we can recycle most of the water that we use, we don't even need arable land.

我们不使任何杀虫剂，我们可以循环利大部分水，我们甚至不需要耕地。

The rapid flares and extinctions at other points of the compass showed the lightest of fuel—straw, beanstalks, and the usual waste from arable land.

其它方位的篝火，火势来去匆匆，表明的燃料是最不经烧的——庄稼地里收来的麦秆、豆秸或其它干草。

To put it in context, Australia has more arable land than Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos all have combined.

相比之下，澳大利亚的耕地面积比印度尼西亚、马来西亚、新加坡、菲律宾、越南、柬埔寨和老挝的总和还要多。

In south Darfur right now, they are only cultivating about a third of the arable land that they could be cultivating.

达尔富尔南部目前只有三分之一的耕地处于利。

Seaweeds are marine organisms, which we can grow in the sea without any use of arable land and drinking water.

海藻是海洋生物，我们可以在海培植，无需使耕地和饮水。

Just 25 percent of the country's land is suitable for crop-growing, most of which is already occupied by arable fields.

全国只有 25% 的土地适合种植农作物，其大部分已经被耕地占据。

They quickly amassed power, building businesses and claiming arable land that they transformed into plantations.

他们迅速积聚权力，建立企业，索取可耕地，把这些土地变成了种植园。

He says the country must retain a " red line" of 120 million hectares of arable land.

他表示，国家必须保留1.2亿公顷耕地的“红线”。

Extreme weather, lack of water, lack of arable land, heavy use of pesticides, and just not enough workers to keep up with the growing population.

极端天气、缺水、缺少耕地、大量使杀虫剂，以及没有足够的工人来满足人口增长的需要。

To put it into another perspective, Australia has by far the highest ratio in the entire world of arable land to population at around 1. 9 arable hectares of land for every one citizen of the country.

从另一个角度来看，澳大利亚的可耕地与人口之比是全世界最高的，每 1 名澳大利亚公民拥有约 1.9 公顷的耕地。

So despite only 2% of their land being considered arable, 55% of New Zealand's land is still being used for agriculture anyway.

因此，尽管只有 2% 的土地被认为是可耕地，新西兰 55% 的土地仍然被于农业。

Consequently, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta account for more than 85% of Canada's total amount of arable land, which means that, probably unsurprisingly, more than 80% of Canada's total agricultural output comes from this region of the country as well.

因此，马尼托巴省、萨斯喀彻温省和亚伯达省的耕地面积占加拿大耕地总面积的 85% 以上，这也意味着加拿大农业总产值的 80% 以上也来自这一地区，这可能并不令人意外。