Jean Reno

My plat de resistance is potato salad with garlic and olive oil which we press from the olives from my trees in the grounds of my home near St Remy de Provence. I have four hectares and take the olives down to the local community press at Maussane les Alpilles. I don't produce big quantities; it is just for the family and friends.

French Actor

Dries van Noten

The garden is my second profession. It's 22 hectares, which is a big garden. I really need it, going from the flower garden, the shrubs and the trees, the vegetable garden, all these things.

Belgian Designer

Subramanian Swamy

Why, when India's agricultural products are among the cheapest in the world despite a low yield per hectare, are we not able to double the production and export the products abroad?

Indian Politician

M. S. Swaminathan

Farmers in rain-fed, dry areas such as Vidarbha and parts of Andhra Pradesh may own several hectares of land but their farm produce depends on the vagaries of the monsoon.

Indian Scientist

Facundo Pieres

In Argentina, we're surrounded by polo ponies. The farm covers roughly 170 hectares, and there are no cattle or sheep, just horses.

Argentinian Athlete

Used primarily for measuring large areas of land like farms or parks.

Land Measurement

Part of the metric system, so it's commonly used in countries that follow this system.

Metric System

Not to be confused with acres; one hectare equals about 2.47 acres.

Comparison with Acres

 per hectare of pulp and making much more paper than you could make by cutting down those old trees. You see companies like Cisco that are training so far four million people in I.T. skills to actually, yes, be responsible, but help expand the opportunity to disseminate I.T. technology

Michael Porter: Why...

 And this suggested that outside of urban and agricultural areas, there's 0.9 billion hectares where trees would naturally exist. And this is room for just over one trillion new trees. We estimated that if we could protect these areas in the long term, then the soils and vegetation

The global movement to...

 petroleum as fuel for the transformation this up on the Palouse but here's what I really want you to remember about this when you think about world food supply even today with that mega agriculture peasants small farmers on farms of two hectares or less still grow more than

From Farm to Table PIPE Nat...

 methane has put out nobody eats meat we still have no option if you want to address climate change you have to address the certification and only livestock properly handled can do it no technology imaginable can so give us a scale how many hectares or acres or

Avoiding desertification...

 Likewise, DNA metabarcoding can be used to monitor biodiversity. For example, using traditional approaches, categorizing all of the insects in a hectare of rainforest can take decades. But DNA from insect traps could yield these results in just a few months.

How we can detect pretty...

 hectares so you have to link them up exactly and how you're doing well one thing that we try to do is actually reestablish the rainforest in between these fragments by planting trees that we actually raised in this nursery here

Why did the Ancient...

 we actually raise in this nursery here from the seeds that we collect in the forest and and how's it going how many are you replanting well we now have replanted an area of about a thousand hectares you have

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 with help from charitable donations maria is building a bespoke rehabilitation center we now have a permanent home it's about 300 hectares so we've got enough room for our animals to move

Poachers Try to Capture...

 By combining it with climate and soil data and excluding areas necessary for human use, they determined Earth could support nearly one billion hectares of additional forest.

What if there were 1...

 million hectares of ocean were protected here an area larger than the state of New York I hope to see more marine protected areas in the future and to my work I

Hectare