urban encroachment

基本解释

There has been much public discussion in recent years about the United States running out of farmland because of urban encroachment.
近年来常常有关于城市扩展而使美国农田减少的公众讨论。
Stopping the geographical spread of cities both protects productive land from further encroachment and keeps such land closer to the urban population.
停止城市的地理扩张，既保护了多产的土地被进一步侵占，同时也保持多产的土地靠近城市人口。
Chen Xiwen said this month water shortages and the encroachment of urban development on rural land posed challenges for China to extend increases in grain output after seven years of growth.
陈锡文还说这个月的水量不足加上都市化发展占用农村土地，这些对我国继续提高农作物产量造成了很大的挑战，这也是7年以来的一次大挑战。

Problems including urban encroachment had warranted the inscription of the site on the World Heritage List in Danger in 2000, at the request of the Pakistani government.
UNESCO: Better conservation in Pakistan and the Philippines allow Committee to remove two sites from World Heritage List in Danger United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization