ABSTRACTED FROM EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: 

This review does not attempt to be comprehensive. Instead, we highlight:

• benchmarks in the evolution of land use policies in Sri Lanka;

• the actual contribution made to decisions about land use by systematic information on land resources.

Lei da Agua em Moçambique (Lei N.16/91) 

These Regulations are formulated to strengthen the planning and construction management of villages and towns, improve the production and living environment thereof, and promote the development of rural economy and society.The planning of villages and towns shall be developed and supervised by the township level people's governments. Where villages and towns in areas where floods, earthquakes, typhoons, landslides and other natural disasters are prone to occur, the overall planning of villages and towns should include measures for disaster prevention.

L'objectif du Project entreprise par 1GN et ses partenaires est ainsi de produire mettre à jour régulièrement un inventaire du territoire agricole de l’Egypte dans le but d’améliorer sa gestion et de la, le potentiel agricole de nations et dans un cadre plus général de favoriser le développement agricole.

Recent arguments have stated that the new livestock development policy will carry a high social cost, that the reality of range degradation in Botswana has been ignored, and that there is no basis for assuming that de-stocking would decrease the productivity of rangeland.

A useful debate is developing over carrying capacity and the degradation of communal rangelands in sub-Saharan Africa. With a few lonely exceptions, scientists and policy-makers have in the past claimed that degradation is universal and livestock productivity lowered because of overstocking on communal range. This position has been mainly dogmatic. More recent research has not supported dogmatists; hence the debate, which impinges on livestock development policy in Botswana.A new livestock development policy is being promoted by the Government of Botswana (Ministry of Agriculture 1991).

Paper attempts to dispel some of the confusion surrounding the application of the range degradation concept in Botswana. It has three objectives. First, to present the current thinking of range ecologists vis-a-vis range degradation. Second, to dismiss recent arguments that range degradation in Botswana is insignificant.