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At a former World War One battlefield near Verdun, France, some pre-war grain fields and pastures have gone unfarmed for more than a century due to craters and unexploded shells, a 2008 paper by Remi de Matos-Machado and Hupy said.

And a small buffer of unfarmed land between the beavers' habitats and farmers' fields could reduce any clashes.

He said he’d see more automation, more robotics and more acreage going unfarmed.

Brazil’s chief of strategic affairs, Maynard Santa Rosa, recently called the Amazon “an unproductive latifúndio” — a big, unfarmed estate — that needed to be developed for agriculture, mining and logging.

This is because there are often unfarmed areas that provide refuge, food resources and suitable conditions for rearing young, they say.