With new technologies, it is possible to grow crops on some marginal land under certain conditions.

Some developers, however, found they were overly optimistic about marginal land.

He first expressed surprise that the town of Beach even existed, based upon such marginal land.

Can be grown on marginal land and is highly drought resistant.

"Each individual has to have food from more marginal land .

"What we're seeing is too many people sitting on too little marginal land.

He wanted the government to acquire marginal land, especially in the Great Plains.

In the South the rich men owned all the good land, leaving the poor white farmers with marginal lands of low productivity.

It is cultivated on marginal lands where rice and other crops will not grow well.

The trees were planted by local farmers on marginal land unsuitable for farming.

Small farmers will be further displaced onto marginal lands, burning their way into native forests.

When the fertile lands were used up, they put marginal lands into production.

As producers, women are sometimes relegated to the production of subsistence crops on marginal land.

Cereal crops should not be grown on marginal lands in the foothills.

Having no direct competition with existing farmland as it can be grown on degraded and marginal land.

Increased population and livestock pressure on marginal lands accelerates desertification.

In Southern Europe, it was cultivated on marginal lands.

Old field sites are often marginal lands with soil quality unsuitable for crops or pasture.

Inhabitants of marginal lands, especially uplands, seem to have leaned toward extremist beliefs.

This in turn led to increased degradation that has been exacerbated by the subsequent use of marginal lands for cultivation.

In the set-aside scheme, which promotes the cultivation of marginal land, farmers are paid for doing nothing.

African farmers were pushed onto "native reserves," usually located on arid, marginal lands.

It was also used to justify the expansion of wheat growing on marginal land in South Australia during the same period.

For many, she said, life under a "benevolent patronage system" may seem better than the uncertainties of farming, often on marginal lands.

Rather than discouraging farmers, they have functioned like American farm support programs that stabilize prices by keeping marginal land out of use.