As a result of the Attlee Government ’ s initiatives in agriculture, there was a 20 % increase in output between 1947 and 1952, while Britain adopted one of the most mechanised and efficient farming industries in the world.

As a result, it is the country's most sparsely populated zone, with little farming or other development.

The major result of these changes were the Highland Clearances, by which much of the population of the Highlands suffered forced displacement as lands were enclosed, principally so that they could be used for sheep farming.

The forested land area has declined significantly since the 1970s as a result of commercial logging and expanded swidden, or slash-and-burn, farming.

As a result of the skill involved in farming in the Mesopotamian, farmers did not depend on slaves to complete farm work for them, but there were some exceptions.

As a result they tended to hoard their grain and to revert to subsistence farming.

So-called Limburg pottery and La Hoguette pottery are styles which stretch into northwestern France and the Netherlands, but it has sometimes been argued that these technologies are the result of pottery technology spreading beyond the original LBK farming population of eastern Belgium and northeastern France, and being made by hunter gatherers.

Some entities such as the European Union subsidize organic farming, in large part because these countries want to account for the externalities of reduced water use, reduced water contamination, reduced soil erosion, reduced carbon emissions, increased biodiversity, and assorted other benefits that result from organic farming.

The result was the end of the open-range system and the ascendancy of stock ranching and farming.

As a result, estuaries are suffering degradation by many factors, including sedimentation from soil erosion from deforestation, overgrazing, and other poor farming practices ; overfishing ; drainage and filling of wetlands ; eutrophication due to excessive nutrients from sewage and animal wastes ; pollutants including heavy metals, polychlorinated biphenyls, radionuclides and hydrocarbons from sewage inputs ; and diking or damming for flood control or water diversion.

As a result, farming families who were changing farms would travel from the old farm to the new one on Lady Day.

Some believe these terraces at the bottom of this valley are the result of medieval farming, or alternatively were used for early farming after being formed by natural processes.

The city developed a reputation as a majority Hispanic community in the late 20th century as a result of high Mexican and Central American immigration ( farm migrant labor ) into a once " all-white " farming community.

) Both communities developed as a result of their locations adjacent to the Baltimore and Annapolis Short Line railroad which brought commuters to the original truck farming community.

In the second half of the 20th century, many orchards were replaced by housing, dairy farming, industry and water ( as a result of extended gravel extraction ).

In part this was a result of increased dairy farming to meet the demands of nearby Dallas.

Its small manorial farming community numbered 176 in the survey, but halved as a result of the Black Death in 1349.

By the sixth century BCE, Sybaris had amassed great wealth and a huge population, as a result of the rich farming land nearby and its policy of admitting settlers of other nations to its citizenry, a practice which was shunned by other Greek colonies.

As a result of these industrial farming conditions, today ’ s mounting environmental stresses are further exacerbated.

As a result, many Hispanics became permanently migrating workers, seeking seasonal employment in farming, mining, ranching, and on the railroads.

The result was the end of the open-range system and the ascendancy of stock ranching and farming.

This happens particularly as population densities increase, and as a result farming becomes more intensively practiced.

For example, Madagascar's central highland plateau has become virtually totally barren ( about ten percent of the country ), as a result of slash-and-burn deforestation, an element of shifting cultivation practiced by many natives.

soil pollution from toxic chemicals such as DDT ; energy blockade, the result of conflict with Azerbaijan, has led to deforestation when citizens scavenged for firewood ; pollution of Hrazdan ( Razdan ) and Araks Rivers ; the draining of Sevana Lich ( Lake Sevan ), a result of its use as a source for hydropower, threatens drinking water supplies ; restart of Metsamor nuclear power plant without adequate ( IAEA-recommended ) safety and backup systems

Recent studies suggest that deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon could increase sharply in the future as a result of over US $ 40 billion in planned investments in highway paving and major new infrastructure projects in the region.

Forest conservation activities or activities avoiding deforestation, which would result in emission reduction through the conservation of existing carbon stocks, are not eligible at this time.

In 2000 the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) found that " the role of population dynamics in a local setting may vary from decisive to negligible ," and that deforestation can result from " a combination of population pressure and stagnating economic, social and technological conditions.

From 1100 to 1500 AD, significant deforestation took place in Western Europe as a result of the expanding human population.

The most widely accepted of these is that of the Princeton University Dictionary which defines it as " the process of fertile land transforming into desert typically as a result of deforestation, drought or improper / inappropriate agriculture "

In general, Ethiopians rely on forests for nearly all of their energy and construction needs ; the result has been deforestation of much of the highlands during the last three decades.

As a result tourism has become Malaysia ’ s third largest source of income from foreign exchange, although it is threatened by the negative effects of the growing industrial economy, with large amounts of air and water pollution along with deforestation affecting tourism.

The rainforest is subject to deforestation as a result of growing commercial demand for tropical timber ; forest clearance, especially in coastal areas, for plantations ; pollution from mining projects.

deforestation ( some the result of illegal logging ); overgrazing of the slopes of the coast and sierra leading to soil erosion ; desertification ; air pollution in Lima ; pollution of rivers and coastal waters from municipal and mining wastes

The result indicates that the rainforest could be threatened though the 21st century by climate change in addition to deforestation.

Madagascar is currently suffering in some areas from soil erosion as a result of deforestation and overgrazing, desertification, and contamination of surface water with raw sewage and organic waste.

As a result, reservation lands suffered massive deforestation and flooding.

As a result of deforestation, presently about one half of the forests that once covered the Earth have been destroyed.

By using local recycling this will help move people away from the slash-and-burn techniques that are the characteristic feature of shifting cultivators are often cited as inherently destructive, yet slash-and-burn cultivation has been practiced in the Amazon for at least 6000 years ; serious deforestation did not begin until the 1970s, largely as the result of Brazilian government programs and policies.

As a result of modernization, many problems such as illegal deforestation are occurring.

As a result of corruption, lawlessness and a general lack of regulation, Ji-Paraná has been at the centre of Rondônia's extreme deforestation, which today extends up to the border with Bolivia.

Most of this increase is due to the combustion of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gas, although smaller fractions are the result of cement production and land-use changes ( e. g. deforestation ).

In line with the President's global advocacy, Guyana ’ s Low Carbon Development Strategy sets out a national scale, replicable model to protect Guyana ’ s 18 million hectare forest, to address the 17 % of global greenhouse gas emissions that result from deforestation and forest degradation, and re-orient the Guyanese economy onto a long-term “ low deforestation, low carbon, climate resilient trajectory ”.

Increasingly, the channel silted up, probably the result of deforestation, and the center of active life shifted, perhaps to the small city of Azov, halfway to Rostov.