Resources Tagged: Land Use

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  1. Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Above-Ground Biodiversity Assessment Working Group, Summary Report 1996-99: Impact of Different Land Uses on Biodiversity and Social Indicators

    This report covers the contractual requirement of ASB to the Global Environment Facility to meet Goal2 "Assessment of the impact on biodiversity of different land uses" as outlined in the aims and objectives of Phase 2. It also meets the broader goals of the the ASB consortium to explore the...
    Biodiversity Conse... Environmental Aspects Rural areas Rural Development Land Use

  2. Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Above Ground Biodiversity Assessment Working Group, Summary Report 1996-1999: Impact of Different Land Uses on Biodiversity and Social Indicators, Annexes I-V

    This report is one of a series detailing results from the Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Programme, a system-wide initiative of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. The programs seeks to reconcile agricultural production and development with mitigation of the adverse...
    Biodiversity Conse... Environmental Aspects Rural Development Land Use

  3. Agroforestry for Improved Land Use: ICRAF's Medium-Term Plan 1994-1998

    1993-01-01 This booklet is divided into six chapters. The first puts the plan into the context of ICRAFoperational mandate and TAC priorities. The second and third chapters summarise their7 programmes and23 projects for which theyhave provided an objective, key activities, expected outputs and indicators,...
    Rural Development Agroforestry Planning Land Use

  4. Collect Earth - land monitoring through visual interpretation

    This video demonstrates the functionalities of Open Foris Collect Earth and its integration with Bing Maps, Google Earth, Google Earth Engine and Saiku. Collect Earth is a Free and Open Source tool that allows easy land monitoring, using freely available services, through a visual interpretation...
    Mapping Land Use

  5. Land Evaluation for Forestry

    1984-01-01 These guidelines present procuedures for conducting land evaluation with particular reference to forestry. The principles and methods described here will be found applicable to most forest land use planning situations. These could deal with choices among kinds and intensities of land uses.
    Forestry Land Management Rural Development Land Use Forest Site Quality

  6. Maradi Integrated Development Project (file) 1994 - 1997

    1997-01-19 Summary report for the agro-pastoral-forestry activities of the Niger Republic in response to chronic hunger, increasing land degradation and declining crop yields.
    Land Use

  7. Land in Africa Market Asset or Secure Livelihood

    Thie document summarises the discussion, highlights areas of consensus, and identifies the progress made in addressing the very diverse settings within which land resource rights need to be secured. It concludes with a statement of key recommendations to the Commission for Africa on actions that...
    Africa Law and Legislation Land Reform Land Tenure Land Use

  8. A Framework for Soils Evaluation FAO Soils Bulletin 32

    This Framework is written mainly for those actively involved in rural land evaluation. Since most land suitability evaluations are at present carried out for purposed of planning by national and local governments, this is the situtaion assumed in references to decision-making, but the evaluation...
    Planning Evaluation Soil Health FAO Soil Surveys Land Use

  9. Diagnosis & Design for Technology Development

    The presentation reiterates the underlying concepts, principles and objectives of diagnosis and design used to analyze land use systems, problems and constraints and to identify agroforesty solutions from a systems perspective with an interdisciplinary approach. It focuses on the application of...
    Stewardship Garden Planning Sustainable Land M... Land Use

  10. Conflicts between Farmers and Herders in NW Mali

    This publication presents the main findings of a study undertaken with the support of Helvetas Mali as part of the identification and formulation phases of the PREGESCO project. The aim of this project, which is co-funded by the Swedish International Development Agency was to help prevent and...
    Natural Resource M... Land Use Mali