This largely determined the maximum of ten hectares (arable equivalent) and ensured that only symbolic holdings would be given to farm workers lacking ownership claims.
Possibly, this urban market absorbed part of the area's rural workforce, thereby lightening the pressure on those who sought access to arable land.
The implications of restricting use of fertilizer nitrogen for the productivity of arable crops, their profitability and potential pollution by nitrate.
Possibly the area was used as arable land, but we have no evidence for that hypothesis.
That the principal object of a site for arable farming or animal husbandry enjoys much attention is simply stating the obvious.
Both arable farming and animal husbandry were firmly embedded in social values and cosmological ideas.
Virtually all people in the research area are well aware of the general shortage of arable land and the competition over it.
The organic farms cultivated, in 1999, about 270,000 ha farmland, 60,000 ha of which was arable land.
