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Displaying 4776 - 4780 of 5074Soil Survey and Land Classification, Republic of Yemen. Land suitability for irrigated sorghum (Seifi) in Wadi Mawr (Tihama).
The purpose of this evaluation is to determine the land suitability of the Wadi Mawr area for the cultivation of (spate) irrigated sorghum under improved traditional management, and to determine the yield response to additional water gifts on various soil types. The evaluation was carried out for the alluvial plain, i.e.
Land resources and production systems in agricultural land use planning in Botswana.
The prosperity of Botswana largely depends on its natural resources. As to the agricultural sector, poor utilization of land resources has until now resulted in low crop yields, poor livestock offtake rates, low rural household incomes and widespread degradation of soils and rangeland. Acknowledging these problems, the Botswana Government has recently adopted a series of policies to ensure that land resources are used in a sustainable manner.
Assistance to Land Use Planning: Ethiopia. Provisional Soil Association Map of Ethiopia (1:2,000,000)
The 1: 2 000 000 Soil Associations map is based on
the Geomorphology and Soils map, at 1: 1 000 000 scals, prepared
by the FAO/UNDP Eth/78/003, Assistance to Land Use PlJ
Project in 1981 It incorporates some new information ob%,3 _
since the finalizing of the Geomorphology and soils map.
No-Tillage Farming for Sustainable Land Management: Lessons from the 2000 Brazil Study Tour
The Occasional Paper Series published by the FAO Investment Centre covers technical briefs, research treatises and particularly useful case studies.
Roads, land use, and deforestation: A spatial model applied to Belize
Rural roads promote economic development, but they also facilitate deforestation.
To explore this tradeoff, this article develops a spatially explicit model of land use
and estimates probabilities of alternative land uses as a function of land characteristics
and distance to market using a multinomial logit specification of this model.
Controls are incorporated for the endogeneity of road placement.
The model is applied to data for southern Belize, an area experiencing rapid