By protecting soil and watersheds, the remaining minute fraction of the continent's forest cover plays a little-appreciated role in sustaining agriculture.

Today, the undulating countryside sustains dairy cattle, pecan nuts and other agriculture.

Europe's protectionism stems from the Continent's political determination to sustain agriculture even when it makes little economic sense.

The forestlands were well watered: extensive river systems flowed through them and they normally received adequate precipitation to sustain agriculture.

Its preamble states that it is aimed at sustaining agriculture in difficult regions of the Community where 'natural production conditions are least favourable.'

The muddy hills seem too steep to sustain agriculture, but there is hardly an uncultivated square yard of land.

Despite the government's efforts to sustain agriculture, by 1991 not one province had as much as 10 percent of the population involved in agriculture and forestry.

The monsoon winds that sweep north across India during the summer bring vital rains to sustain agriculture.

The wetlands are used to treat Kolkata's sewage, and the nutrients contained in the waste water sustain fish farms and agriculture.

It is recognized that some techniques used to sustain intensive agriculture can be cruel to animals.