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Guidelines: land evaluation for extensive grazing

Journal Articles & Books
November, 1991
France
Zambia
Afghanistan
Zimbabwe
Australia
Greece
Guinea
Ethiopia
Pakistan
Colombia
Panama
Kenya
Jordan
Philippines
Libya
Italy
Botswana
Netherlands
Argentina
Sudan
Europe
Asia
Africa
Northern America

Extensive grazing is the predominant form of land use on at least a quarter of the world’s land surface, in which livestock are raised on food that comes mainly from rangelands. Extensive grazing differs from crop or forestry production, in which the produce remains in situ whilst growing. Evaluation for extensive grazing, unlike that for cropping or forestry, must take into account the production of both grazing forage, termed primary production, and the livestock that feed on this forage, termed secondary production.

Institutional cooperation

Reports & Research
October, 1986
Africa

A fundamental requirement for a national development strategy is an effective mapping programme. Information about the physical environment in the form of remote sensing imagery, coordinates, maps, digital data, cadastral data and land-use information is a basic tool in the planning, process.

Land Evaluation in Europe

Journal Articles & Books
November, 1976
Belgium
Europe

This bulletin gives an overview of the ninth session of the working party on Soil Classification and Survey of the European Commission on Agriculture that took place in Ghent, Belgium, in september 1973. It presents the papers, discussions and recommendations developed during the meeting. A methodology of land evaluation is being developed in FAO and will be used for the interpretation of the FAO/UNESCO Soil Map of the World with a view to making a global evaluation of the land resources available for agricultural development.

Création d'organismes permanents d'enquêtes sur le terrain

Conference Papers & Reports
May, 1974
Africa

La création d'organismes permanents d'enquêtes sur le terrain dans le cadre des services statistiques africains est à l'étude depuis de nombreuses années et dans certains pays ces organismes existent déjà. Ils se justifient par la nécessite de recueillir des informations relativement exactes sur les secteurs des ménages et des entreprises privées, qu'il est impossible d'obtenir de sources centralistes d'informations dans les pays en voie de développement.

The transformation of the land tenure system, land appropriation and formation of the ruling class in the mauri country (Niger)

Reports & Research
November, 1973
Niger

The difference in kind between the pre-colonial and the postcolonial relations of production can he noticed through the gradual dissolution of relations based on a personal tieless gift-giving based on the market economy. The liberation of the labor forces this engendered and of channeled into a new system of constraint, led to the beginning of a private appropriation of land.