Stephen Kinzer

Land ownership in Guatemala is more unequal than anywhere else in Latin America. Roughly 90 percent of Guatemalan farms are too small to support a family. A tiny group of Guatemalans owns a third of the country's arable land; more than 300,000 landless peasants must scrounge a living as best they can.

American Author

Tristram Stuart

Viewed from a holistic ecological perspective, some meat - such as conscientiously hunted animals - involves less suffering and environmental damage than arable agriculture, while both of these are significantly less harmful than indiscriminately purchasing meat on the market.

English Author

Charles C. Mann

Farmers can't plant much more land because almost every accessible acre of arable soil is already in use. Nor can the use of fertilizer be increased: it is already being overused everywhere except some parts of Africa, and the runoff is polluting rivers, lakes, and oceans.

American Journalist

Yemi Osinbajo

With 10 per cent of Nigeria's total land mass, 80 per cent of which is arable, Niger state symbolises the hope and greatness of Nigeria and has potential to feed the continent.

Nigerian Politician

F. Sionil Jose

The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the Ilokanos and the Cebuanos.

Filipino Writer

Josiah Strong

There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.

American Clergyman

Mo Ibrahim

In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land.

Sudanese Businessman

Jeremy Grantham

We live on a finite planet. We have finite resources, and we're running out of good, arable land.

British Businessman

Arable often appears with words related to farming, agriculture, or land use.

Use Context

Arable doesn't mean the land is flat; it focuses on the land's ability to support crops.

Not Always Flat

Understand the opposite; terms like barren, infertile, or non-arable describe land unsuitable for crops.

Opposite Meaning

 is there enough land for them? Well, throughout the world, if we look at the lights at night, the one thing that's misleading is that, visually, it looks like most of the world is already built out. So let me show you why that's wrong. Take this representation of all of the land. Turn it into a square that stands for all the arable land on Earth.

Paul Romer: Why the...

 animals and use most of the arable land to grow the plants to feed the animals to feed us humanity has an interesting challenge facing it now on this on the surface of that it feels like an us-versus-them choice but it doesn't have to be you see we don't have to either choose eating meat or having a

A Story of Community and...

 despite all our accomplishments, a billion people go to bed hungry in this world every day. That number's rising, and it's rising really rapidly, and it's disgraceful. And not only that, we've used our imagination to thoroughly trash this globe. Potable water, arable land, rainforests, oil,

The danger of science...

 We're expecting that problem to get worse as world population grows to nine billion or 10 billion by midcentury, and we can expect to have greater pressure on our food resources. And this is a big concern, especially considering where we are now. Now we know that our arable land per capita

Jackie Savitz: Save the...

 all their accomplishments a billion people go to bed hungry in this world every day that number is rising and it's rising really rapidly and it's disgraceful and not only that we've used our imagination to thoroughly trash this globe potable water arable land rain

 Same series of semi-independent city-states, little blobs of metropolitan stuff with arable land around, joined to one another by railway. And again, food could be said to be the ordering principle of his vision. It even got built, but nothing to do with

Carolyn Steel: How food...

 And one third of our arable land is used to grow feed to feed factory-farmed animals, rather than ourselves. And all that land is sprayed with immeasurable chemicals. And ecologically important habitats, like the Amazon,

A lesson in turning...

 So, there it is -- architectural anti-desertification structures made from the desert itself. Sand-stopping devices, made from sand. The world is likely to lose one third of its arable land by the end of the century.

Magnus Larsson: Turning...

 Ninety-seven percent of the world's water is saltwater. How about we use that? Combine that with number three. Do not use arable land. Because crops are already growing on that land