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Land Use in Kenya; The case for a national land-use policy

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Journal Articles & Books
Fevereiro, 2015
Quênia

This book exposes the key land use and environmental problems facing Kenya today due to lack of an appropriate national land use policy. The publication details how the air is increasingly being polluted, the water systems are diminishing in quantity and deteriorating in quality. The desertification process threatens the land and its cover.

Mapping Guidelines for Participatory Rangeland Management in Pastoral and Agro-Pastoral Areas

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Manuals & Guidelines
Janeiro, 2015
Global

The purpose of these Mapping Guidelines is to support development practitioners (individuals and organizations) working in the rangelands and sub-humid grasslands of Ethiopia. Specifically, resource mapping can assist with investigating rangeland management systems, negotiating rangeland management plans, and implementing and monitoring progress in Participatory Rangeland Management (PRM).

Preparation of soil map using remote sensing and GIS technology

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Journal Articles & Books
Dezembro, 2014

For efficient utilization of soil and water resources, reconnaissance survey of watershed Godavari valley-5 (GV-5) was carried out in Nashik Soil Survey unit No. 2 for providing comprehensive information characteristics. Representative soil samples from each of eight villages of the sub-catchments of Gangapur were collected.

Land use map of Tanzania

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Policy Papers & Briefs
Novembro, 2014
Ruanda
Uganda
Burúndi
China
Tanzania
Cuba
Argentina
Senegal
África

The present report gives the complete description of the preparation of a land use map and also the preparation of a national map of livestock intensity, needed as LUS input. The present method allows the preparation of a multi-country land use map in two weeks with the work of 13 experts, and is comparable to the continuous of 130 working days.

Land use map of Rwanda

LandLibrary Resource
Policy Papers & Briefs
Novembro, 2014
Ruanda
Uganda
Burúndi
China
Tanzania
Cuba
Argentina
Senegal
África

The present report gives the complete description of the preparation of a land use map and also the preparation of a national map of livestock intensity, needed as LUS input. The present method allows the preparation of a multi-country land use map in two weeks with the work of 13 experts, and is comparable to the continuous of 130 working days.

Land use map of Uganda

LandLibrary Resource
Policy Papers & Briefs
Novembro, 2014
Ruanda
Uganda
Burúndi
China
Tanzania
Cuba
Argentina
Senegal
África

The present report gives the complete description of the preparation of a land use map and also the preparation of a national map of livestock intensity, needed as LUS input. The present method allows the preparation of a multi-country land use map in two weeks with the work of 13 experts, and is comparable to the continuous of 130 working days.

Land-use change in the Caucasus during and after the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

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Journal Articles & Books
Novembro, 2014
Armenia
Azerbaijan

Socioeconomic shocks can shape future land-use trajectories. Armed conflicts are an extreme form of a socioeconomic shock, but our understanding of how armed conflicts affect land-use change is limited. Our goal was to assess land-use changes related to the 1991–1994 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Caucasus region.

Interpretation of characteristics of the land use change based on chronological satellite imageries of kharga oasis, western desert, Egypt

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Journal Articles & Books
Novembro, 2014
Egypt

Since the 1990s, the Egyptian government has embarked on two national projects on settlement and agricultural development in the Western desert in preparation for expected future population growth. One of them is the Toshka irrigation project, which carries water from Lake Nasser through the depression of El Kharga towards Farafra Oasis.