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Meten van maatwerk; monitoring van het WCL-beleid 1994-1996

Reports & Research
december, 1997
Netherlands

In opdracht van het Ministerie van LNV, Directie Groene Ruimte en Recreatie heeft DLO-Staring Centrum een monitoring uitgevoerd van het beleid voor de Waardevolle Cultuurlandschappen (WCL). Dit rapport bevat zowel het kwalitatieve als het kwantitatieve gedeelte van de monitoring en richt zich op de jaren 1994 tot en met 1996 met een doorkijk naar 1997. Het proces wordt beschreven van het organiseren van de uitvoering van WCL, het opstellen van het gebiedsperspectief en het aandragen en uitvoeren van projecten. Van daaruit is aangegeven in welke mate de WCL-doelstellingen worden bereikt.

Carbon dynamics in slash-and-burn agriculture and land use alternatives of the humid forest zone in Cameroon

Journal Articles & Books
november, 1997
Cameroon

One of the environmental consequences of slash-and-burn farming is the loss of forest system carbon which in turn contributes to atmospheric change and impacts upon global climates. International attention has become focused upon the development of alternatives to slash-and-burn agriculture to alleviate poverty, protect biodiversity and reduce climate change. Before alternative land use systems can be evaluated in terms of carbon sequestration, baseline measurements of carbon dynamics resulting from current practices are required.

Namibia: encouraging sustainable smallholder agriculture

december, 1996
Europe
Sub-Saharan Africa

Report recommends agriculture-sector poliy objective of risk reduction, production stability, and the diversification of agricultural and non-agricultural economic opportunities in the rural areas. The most fundamental problem remains, seven years after independence, the lack of a clear policy, administrative structures and legislation dealing with land allocation, tenure and management.

Integrating peasant knowledge and geographic information systems : a spatial approach to sustainable agriculture

december, 1996
Mexico
Latin America and the Caribbean

Starting with a discussion of the scientific versus the traditional methods of land evaluation and perception, the authors formulate a methodological framework to integrate both perspectives into a geographic-information/expert-system environment aimed at sustainable development of a rural community, and present a case study in Central Mexico.

Malawi: Services and policies needed to support sustainable smallholder agriculture

december, 1996
Malawi
Europe
Sub-Saharan Africa

Malawi’ s smallholder agriculture is facing a crisis, particularly in the more populated south. There is an insidious combination of land shortage, continuous cultivation of maize, declining soil fertility, low yields, deforestation, poverty and high population growth rate. Smallholder farmers are doing what they can to maintain household livelihoods under these difficult circumstances, however many of their actions, which are necessary for short term survival, such as the cultivation of hillsides, are not sustainable in the long term.

Problèmes et perspective des systèmes d'irrigation à grande échelle en Afrique

Conference Papers & Reports
december, 1996
Africa

Les pays de l'Afrique du Sahel sont soumis, et particulièrement au cours des dernières décennies, aux à aléas climatiques et éprouvent de ce fait les plus grandes difficultés à assurer leur autosuffisance alimentaire. Les populations rurales confrontées à un milieu de plus en plus hostile délaissent les campagnes pour migrer et venir grossir les effectifs des populations urbaines non productives.